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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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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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8580
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Simon
Gächter
Elke
Renner
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax ...
(revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334 )
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C72, C90, H41, Z13
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8579
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Lata
Gangadharan
Pushkar
Maitra
Subha
Mani
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De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: An Experimental Investigation
The goal of this paper is to examine stability in preferences using the Stigler-Becker state-dependent framework. Using a randomized intervention that changes the opportunity sets of individuals we ...
(published as 'Searching for Preference Stability in a State Dependent World' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 17- 32.)
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C9, D01, D03
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8577
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Martin
Koudstaal
Randolph
Sloof
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (10), 2897 - 2915)
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L26, C93, D03, M13
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8576
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Francesco
Fasani
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Understanding the Role of Immigrants' Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61(3-4), 722-763)
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F22, J61, K37
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8574
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Michele
Battisti
Gabriel
Felbermayr
Giovanni
Peri
Panu
Poutvaara
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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018,16 (4), 1137 - 1188)
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F22, J61, J64
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8573
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Mikolaj
Herbst
Pawel
Kaczmarczyk
Piotr
Wojcik
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Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework: Evidence from Poland
According to the economic literature human capital is a critical growth factor. This is why migration of individuals well endowed with human capital is subject of interest for both academics and ...
(published in: Central European Economic Journal, 2017, 1 (48), 1-18)
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I25, J24, J61, J62
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8572
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Language and Labor Market Success
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital.
(1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015, Pages 260-265)
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J24, J31, J61
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8571
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Amelie
F.
Constant
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in ...
(published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112)
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F22, J15, Z10
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8570
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Solomon
Polachek
Xu
Zhang
Xing
Zhou
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a ...
(published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.)
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J1, J2, J3, J43, J7, J8, N3, N9, O5, Y8, Z13
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8569
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Katrin
Auspurg
Maria
Iacovou
Cheti
Nicoletti
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Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity
Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 66, 118-139)
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J16, J22, C35
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8567
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Delphine
Boutin
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Climate Vulnerability, Communities' Resilience and Child Labour
This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate ...
(published in: Revue d’Economie Politique, 2014, 124 (4), 625-638)
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J22, J43, O55, Q54
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8566
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Samantha
Rawlings
Zahra
Siddique
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Domestic Abuse and Child Health
We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born ...
(revised version appears as IZA DP 11899; published as `Domestic Violence and Child Mortality in the Developing World' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4): 723-750.)
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I14, I15, J12, J13
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8565
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Daniela
Del Boca
Daniela
Piazzalunga
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children ...
(published as 'The role of grandparenting in early childcare and child outcomes' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (2), 477-512)
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J13, D1, I21
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8563
|
Andrew
McGee
Peter
McGee
Jessica
Pan
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Performance Pay, Competitiveness, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the United States
Evidence that women are less likely to opt into competitive compensation schemes in the laboratory has generated speculation that a gender difference in competitiveness contributes to the gender wage ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 128, 35-38)
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J16, A12
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8562
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Henry
S
Farber
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Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers
In a seminal paper, Camerer, Babcock, Loewenstein, and Thaler (1997) find that the wage elasticity of daily hours of work New York City (NYC) taxi drivers is negative and conclude that their labor ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1975-2026)
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J22, D01, D03
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8561
|
John
H.
Pencavel
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The Labor Supply of Self-Employed Workers: The Choice of Working Hours in Worker Co-ops
Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 677-689)
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J22, J54
|
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8560
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Sandra
Hentschel
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Contribution of Managers to Organizational Success: Evidence from German Soccer
We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19(6), 786-819)
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J24, J44, J63
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8559
|
Benjamin
Artz
Amanda
H.
Goodall
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (2), 419–450)
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I31, J28, M54
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8558
|
Jean-Olivier
Hairault
Anastasia
Zhutova
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The Cyclicality of Labor Market Flows: A Multiple-Shock Approach
In this paper, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of the unemployment dynamics generated by different structural shocks. We show that the relative contribution of the job finding and separation ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 103, 150-172)
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E24, J6
|
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8557
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Petri
Böckerman
Pekka
Ilmakunnas
Jari
Vainiomäki
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Using Twins to Resolve the Twin Problem of Having a Bad Job and a Low Wage
We use data on twins matched to register-based information on earnings to examine the long-standing puzzle of non-existent compensating wage differentials. The use of twin data allows us to remove ...
(published in: The Manchester School, 2018, 86 (2), 155-177)
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J28, J31
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