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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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8868
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Anis
Omri
Saida
Daly
Christophe
Rault
Anissa
Chaibi
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Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries
This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252)
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E44, E58, F36, P26
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8867
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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The Academic Impact of Natural Disasters: Evidence from L'Aquila Earthquake
This paper examines the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local university. Following this traumatic event, not only are students likely to have ...
(revised version published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (1), 62-77)
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Q54, I23
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8866
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Karine
Nyborg
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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators
International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 92, 707-725)
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F53, H87, Q54
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8863
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John
G.
Sessions
John
D.
Skåtun
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Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection
By relaxing the common efficiency wage assumption of exogenous shirking detection probabilities, we demonstrate how standards and efficiency wages are related. In a more general setting where the ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2018, 70 (2), 103-118)
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J33, J41, J54
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8862
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Raymond
Montizaan
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
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Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age
This paper investigates whether employers can induce employees to postpone retirement by offering access to training courses that maintain job proficiency. We use unique, matched ...
(published as 'Train to retain: Training opportunities, positive reciprocity, and expected retirement age' in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2020, 117, 103332 (with Bert Schreurs))
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J24, J31, I2
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8861
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch ...
(published as 'The Effect of Incentive-Induced Retirement on Spousal Retirement Rates: Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (2), 910 - 930 )
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C26, J26, J12, J14
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8859
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Maria
De Paola
Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data ...
(published as 'Gender differences in the propensity to apply for promotion: evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (5), 986 - 1009.)
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J71, M51, J45, J16, D72, D78
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8858
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Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information
We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 186 - 2020)
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D03, C83, D84
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8857
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Thomas
Dohmen
Jan
Sauermann
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Referee Bias
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, 30 (4), 679-695)
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D8, L83
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8856
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Orazio
Attanasio
Sarah
Cattan
Emla
Fitzsimons
Costas
Meghir
Marta
Rubio-Codina
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (1), 48–85)
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J13, J24, I24, I25, I32, O15
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8855
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Corrado
Andini
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The Wage Return to Education: What Hides Behind the Least Squares Bias?
This paper combines the approach by Guimarães and Portugal (2010) with the methodology of Gelbach (2015) to investigate the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45 (7), 1409-1425)
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I21, J31
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8854
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Isabelle
Lebon
Therese
Rebiere
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How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets – ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2018, 17 (1), 1 - 44 )
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H21, H52, J21, J64
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8852
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
Peter
Siminski
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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.)
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H56, I10, I13
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8851
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Jan
Michael
Bauer
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145)
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E26, J14, J46
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8850
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Stefan
Pichler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: A Method to Test for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior
This paper proposes a test for the existence and the degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into ...
(revised version published as 'The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior' in:Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 156, 14-33)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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8849
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Marco
Francesconi
Jonathan
James
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a ...
(revised version published as "Liquid Assets? The Short-Run Liabilities of Binge Drinking" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129(621), 2090-2136)
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I12, I18, K42
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8848
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Sónia
Félix
Pedro
Portugal
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Drug Decriminalization and the Price of Illicit Drugs
This study is an empirical assessment of the impact of the drug decriminalization policy followed by Portugal in July, 2001. We investigate especially the impact of the policy change on the price of ...
(published in: International Journal of Drug Policy, 2017, 39, 121-129 )
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C21, D04
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8847
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Martin
Guzi
Martin
Kahanec
Lucia
Mýtna
Kureková
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What Explains Immigrant-Native Gaps in European Labor Markets: The Role of Institutions
The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2021, 9 (4), 1823 - 1856 )
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J15, J18, J61
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8846
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Andrew
Clarke
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Language Barriers and Immigrant Health Production
We study the impact of language deficiency on the health production of childhood migrants to Australia. Our identification strategy relies on a quasi-experiment comparing immigrants arriving at ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (6), 765 - 778)
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F22, I12, J24, J61
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8845
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Augustin
de Coulon
Dragos
Radu
Max
F.
Steinhardt
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Pane e Cioccolata: The Impact of Native Attitudes on Return Migration
This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2016, 24, 253-281.)
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F22, J61
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8844
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Marianne
Frank
Hansen
Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
Torben
Tranæs
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The Impact of Immigrants on Public Finances: A Forecast Analysis for Denmark
All over Europe, ageing populations threaten nations' financial sustainability. In this paper we examine the potential of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (3), 925-952)
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F22, E62, J61
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8843
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Paul
Frijters
Tao
Sherry
Kong
Elaine
M.
Liu
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Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants
In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2015, 114 (C), 62-74)
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C81, C93, C90
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8842
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Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
Rachel
Connelly
Ngoc-Han
Thi Tran
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative ...
(published in Handbook on Migration, Identity and Well-Being in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015)
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J71, J23, J61, J31, O15, O53, P36
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8839
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Bettina
Drepper
Georgios
Effraimidis
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Identification of the Timing-of-Events Model with Multiple Competing Exit Risks from Single-Spell Data
This note describes how the (single-spell) identification result of the timing-of-events model by Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) can be extended to a model that accommodates several competing exit ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147, 124-126)
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C41, C31, J64
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8838
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Felix
Wellschmied
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The Welfare Effects of Asset Means-Testing Income Support
This paper quantitatively determines the asset limit in income support programs which minimizes consumption volatility in a lifecycle model with incomplete markets and idiosyncratic earnings risk. An ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12, 217-249)
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D91, I38, J26
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8837
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Eugenio
Proto
Aldo
Rustichini
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Life Satisfaction, Income and Personality
We use personality traits to better understand the relationship between income and life satisfaction. Personality traits mediate the effect of income on life satisfaction. The effect of neuroticism, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 17-32)
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D03, D87, C33
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8835
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage
This chapter describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple ...
(published in: H. Dean and L. Platt (eds.), Social Advantage and Disadvantage, Ch.7, 135 - 160, Oxford University Press, 2016. )
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D31, I32
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8834
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Aysit
Tansel
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
Emre
Aksoy
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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey
This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and ...
(published in Applied Economics Letters, 2016, 23 (3), 184-187)
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E24
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8832
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Flavia
Coda Moscarola
Ugo
Colombino
Francesco
Figari
Marilena
Locatelli
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Shifting Taxes from Labour to Property: A Simulation under Labour Market Equilibrium
A tax shifting from labour income to housing taxation is generally advocated on efficiency grounds. However, most of the empirical literature focuses on the distributional implications of property ...
(revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes away from Labour Enhances Equity and Fiscal Efficiency' in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2020, 42 (2), 367- 384)
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C35, C53, D31, J22, H31
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8831
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Georgi
Kocharkov
Cezar
Santos
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-41.)
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E13, J12, J22, O11
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8830
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Helmuth
Cremer
Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur
Dario
Maldonado
Kerstin
Roeder
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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation
This paper studies the design of couples' income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses' utilities; bargaining ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 454-470)
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H21, H31, D10
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8828
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship
The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of ...
(published in: M. Szenberg and L. Ramrattan (eds.): Collaborative Research in Economis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 65 - 93)
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A11, J01, B31
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8827
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James
J.
Heckman
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Gary Becker: Model Economic Scientist
This paper presents Gary Becker's approach to conducting creative, empirically fruitful economic research. It describes the traits and methodology that made him such a productive and influential ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 74–79)
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B31, D13, J13, J24
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8826
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Andy
Feng
Georg
Graetz
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A Question of Degree: The Effects of Degree Class on Labor Market Outcomes
How does measured performance at university affect labor market outcomes? We show that degree class – a coarse measure of student performance used in the UK – causally affects graduates' industry and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 140-161)
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C26, I24, J24, J31
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8825
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Ronny
Freier
Mathias
Schumann
Thomas
Siedler
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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates
This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 39-50 )
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J01, J31, J44
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8824
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis
This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 155-180)
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D73, J16, L83, Z13
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8823
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Jannie
H. G.
Kristoffersen
Morten
Visby
Kraegpøth
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes
This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 1-13)
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I21, J12
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8822
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Angus
J.
Holford
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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 531 - 568)
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I38, J22, H53
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8821
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Stefanie
Schurer
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Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,119, 482-495, 2015)
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D81, D01, D63
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8820
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
Andrea
Robbett
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Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 50-60)
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J31, D01, C92
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8819
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Corrado
Andini
Monica
Andini
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A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity
The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data ...
(extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320)
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C23, J64
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8818
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Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Alina
Sorgner
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333)
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L26, D22
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8817
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Marco
Caliendo
Jens
Hogenacker
Steffen
Künn
Frank
Wießner
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190)
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C14, L26, J68
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8816
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Johannes
König
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Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669)
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L26, I13, J2
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8815
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David
Bardey
Helmuth
Cremer
Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur
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The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 28 -37)
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I11, I13, I18
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8814
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Stefanie
Schurer
Michael
Alspach
Jayden
MacRae
Greg
L.
Martin
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The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach
This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 81–93)
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H51, I18
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8813
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Marco
Francesconi
Robert
Pollak
Domenico
Tabasso
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Unequal Bequests
Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally ...
(publlished in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104513)
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D13, J12, K36
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8812
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Erik
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
John
Piggott
Knut
Røed
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Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work ...
(revised version published as 'Pension Reform and Labor Supply' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 142, 39–55)
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H55, J22, J26
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8811
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Bernhard
Boockmann
Tobias
Brändle
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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e436-e468)
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J68, J14
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8810
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Ali
Termos
Ismail
H.
Genc
George
S
Naufal
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A Tacit Monetary Policy of the Gulf Countries: Is There a Remittances Channel?
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2016, 20 (2), 599-610)
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F24, N15
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