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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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8639
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Lorenz
Götte
Annette
Cerulli-Harms
Charles
Sprenger
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Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences
An important advance in the study of reference-dependent preferences is the discipline provided by coherent accounts of reference point formation. K?szegi and Rabin (2006) provide such discipline by ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (1), 185–207))
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D81, D84, D12, D03
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8638
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Jeroen
van de Ven
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Dishonesty under Scrutiny
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1, 86-99)
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C91, D83
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8637
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Is the BMI a Relic of the Past?
The most widely used measure of adiposity is to express weight adjusted for height using the body mass index (BMI). However, its limitations such as its inability to distinguish muscle weight from ...
(revised version published as 'Body Fatness Charts Based on BMI and Waist Circumference" in: Obesity, 2016, 24 (1), 245–249)
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I10
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8636
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Anna
De Paoli
Gilberto
Turati
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Do Market Incentives in the Hospital Industry Affect Subjective Health Perceptions? Evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG Reform
We exploit time variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of a prospective pay systems (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on ...
(revised version published as 'Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? Evidence from prospective pya system-diagnosis-related groups tariffs in Italian regions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, 2016, 179 (4), 885-905 )
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I11, I18
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8635
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Dimitris
Christelis
Dimitris
Georgarakos
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 102246.)
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D14, I13, G11
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8634
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Health Status and the Allocation of Time: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2015, 46 (2), 188-203)
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D13, J16, J22
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8633
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Nezih
Guner
Yuliya
Kulikova
Joan
Llull
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Does Marriage Make You Healthier?
We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 162-190)
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I10, I12, J10
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8632
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Luca
Nunziata
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Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data
We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (3), 697-736)
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J15, J61, K42, F22, R23, O15
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8631
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Johannes
Koettl
Olga
Kupets
Anna
Olefir
Indhira
Santos
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In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:21)
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J61, J68, P25
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8630
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John
T.
Giles
Ren
Mu
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544)
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O12, O15, J61, Q15, R23
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8629
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Gregory
Verdugo
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Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (1), 237-265)
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J15, R50
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8627
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Govert
Bijwaard
Jackline
Wahba
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Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094)
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F22, J61, C41
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8626
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Delia
Furtado
Tao
Song
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Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American ...
(published in: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 662 (1), 207-222)
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J12, J24, J31, J61
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8625
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, ...
(published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9 )
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F22, J15, Z10
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8624
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Alisher
Aldashev
Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2308-2326)
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J24, I21, P23, O15
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8623
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Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Friederike
von Haaren
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Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6)
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I22, I28, H75
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8622
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Mehtabul
Azam
Geeta
G.
Kingdon
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Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 74–83)
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I21, O15
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8621
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Todd
Pugatch
Elizabeth
Schroeder
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Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity ...
(published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.)
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I25, I28, J38, J45, O12, O15
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8620
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Nicholas
Bloom
Renata
Lemos
Raffaella
Sadun
John
Van Reenen
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 647-674)
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L2, M2, I2
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8618
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Audrey
Light
Andrew
McGee
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Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined
We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 57-66)
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I21, J24, J31
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8617
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Damon
Clark
Emilia
Del Bono
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The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK
This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 150-176)
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I2, J24, C31, C36
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8616
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John
V.
Winters
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Estimating the Returns to Schooling Using Cohort-Level Maternal Education as an Instrument
Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 126 (1), 25-27)
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J24, J31
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8615
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Cheti
Nicoletti
Birgitta
Rabe
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Sibling Spillover Effects in School Achievement
We provide the first empirical evidence on direct sibling spillover effects in school achievement using English administrative data. Our identification strategy exploits the variation in school test ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 482-501)
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I22, I24
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8614
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Delia
Furtado
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Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (19))
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D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
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8613
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Javier
García-Manglano
Natalia
Nollenberger
Almudena
Sevilla
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Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015)
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J1, J11, J13
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8612
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Wolfgang
Auer
Natalia
Danzer
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Fixed-Term Employment and Fertility: Evidence from German Micro Data
We study the short- to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2016, 62 (4), 595-623)
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J13, J18, J41
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8610
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Matthias
Doepke
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Gary Becker on the Quantity and Quality of Children
This paper reviews Gary Becker's contributions to the economic analysis of fertility, from his 1960 paper introducing the quantity-quality tradeoff to later work linking the economics of fertility to ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81(1), 59-66)
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J13, O10, O40
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8609
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Petter
Lundborg
Erik
Plug
Astrid
Würtz
Rasmussen
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Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women ...
(published as "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments" in: American Economic Review, June 2017, 107 (6), 1611-37)
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J13, J22
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8608
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Emilia
Del Bono
Marco
Francesconi
Yvonne
Kelly
Amanda
Sacker
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Early Maternal Time Investment and Early Child Outcomes
Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F96-F135)
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J24, J15, I20
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8607
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Delia
Furtado
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (1), 27-53)
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D10, F22, J13, J22, R23
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8606
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Big and Tall: Is there a Height Premium or Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?
Previous studies have shown that both height and weight are associated with wages. However, by focusing on interpreting the partial effects of either height or weight on wages while holding all else ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Big and Tall: Does a Height Premium Dwarf an Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2017, 27, 289-304.)
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J31, J71
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8605
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Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
Lei
Lei
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"As Rare as a Panda": How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms
This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(1), 68-85)
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C93, J71, J23, O53
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8603
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Solomon
Polachek
Jun
Xiang
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn ...
(published in: Esther Redmount (ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, 2014, 2, 27-66.)
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J3, J7, I3, H8, F55
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8602
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Luca
Flabbi
Mario
Macis
Andrea
Moro
Fabiano
Schivardi
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Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
We analyze a matched employer-employee panel data set and find that female leadership has a positive effect on female wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (622), 2390-2423)
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M5, M12, J7, J16
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8601
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Donal
O'Neill
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Divided Opinion on The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013: Random or Systematic Differences
This paper analyses economists' support for the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, by examining the characteristics of almost 1000 economists who signed open letters either supporting or opposing the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 175-178)
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J38, A23
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8599
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Julie
Beugnot
Guy
Lacroix
Olivier
Charlot
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Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes: Micro versus Macro Performances
In this paper we investigate Oswald's hypothesis according to which higher homeownership rates increase aggregate unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model àla Pissarides ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2019, 127, 161 - 183 )
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J41, J61, J64, E24
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8598
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Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
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An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data
We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 273 - 309)
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F55, H23, J65
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8596
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Martin
McGuigan
Sandra
McNally
Gill
Wyness
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Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure
University fees have recently trebled in England, prompting fears that young people may be put off from participating in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2016, 10 (4), 482–519)
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I2
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8595
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2015, 124 (2), 517-535.)
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I24, J15, P35
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8594
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Michael
Grimm
Anicet
Munyehirwe
Jörg
Peters
Maximiliane
Sievert
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A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda
More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3): 631–649.)
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O13, O18, Q41
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8592
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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Does Development Reduce Migration?
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade ...
(published in: Robert E.B. Lucas, ed. (2014), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development. London: Edward Elgar, Chap. 6, pp. 152–185.)
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F22, J61, O15
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8591
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Xi
Chen
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C ...
(published in: Health Economics Review, 2014, 4, Article 30)
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D1, I14, I18, J22, J24, J4
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8590
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Lauren
E.
Jones
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Successful Scientific Replication and Extension of Levitt (2008): Child Seats Are Still No Safer than Seat Belts
Using US fatality data from 1975 to 2003, Levitt (2008) shows that child safety seats do not significantly reduce fatalities for children aged two to six as compared to standard seat belts. Although ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(5), 920-928)
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I18, I31, Z13, Q54
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8589
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Koen
Decancq
Dirk
Neumann
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Does the Choice of Well-Being Measure Matter Empirically? An Illustration with German Data
We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure ...
(revised version published in: M. Adler, M. Fleurbaey (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, OUP, 2016, 553-587)
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D31, D63, I30
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8588
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Melisa
Bubonya
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mark
Wooden
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A Family Affair: Job Loss and the Mental Health of Spouses and Adolescents
This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6, 6 (2017))
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I31, J10, J65
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8587
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Eileen
Crimmins
Michael
D.
Hurd
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The Effect of Job Loss on Health: Evidence from Biomarkers
The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 51, 194-203)
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I14, J10, J14
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8586
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Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Gary Becker's Contributions in Health Economics
This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for the collection of short papers in honor of Gary Becker that is scheduled to ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (1), 51-57)
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I1, J1
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8585
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Helios
Herrera
Ernesto
Reuben
Michael
M.
Ting
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Turf Wars
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, 143-153)
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D73, D74, D82
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8582
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Peter
Dolton
Melanie
Lührmann
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"Making It Count": Evidence from a Field Study on Assessment Rules, Study Incentives and Student Performance
This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in ...
(published as ''Making it count’: incentives, student effort and performance' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (2), 323 - 349)
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I23, D20
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8581
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Lata
Gangadharan
Pushkar
Maitra
Subha
Mani
Samyukta
Subramanian
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Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?
In this paper, we examine the determinants of self-selection into a vocational training program in India. To do this we combine data from an artefactual field experiment with survey data collected ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110, 145-159.)
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J24, C93, C81
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