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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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8556
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Julia
Lane
Jason
Owen-Smith
Rebecca
Rosen
Bruce
A.
Weinberg
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New Linked Data on Research Investments: Scientific Workforce, Productivity, and Public Value
Longitudinal micro-data derived from transaction level information about wage and vendor payments made by federal grants on multiple U.S. campuses are being developed in a partnership involving ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44 (9), 1659-1671)
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C8, O3, J4
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8554
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this ...
(revised version published as 'The elasticity of taxable income in the presence of deduction possibilities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 151, 41 - 55)
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H24, H31
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8552
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Pushkar
Maitra
Subha
Mani
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
This paper presents the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2017, 45, 116-130.)
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I21, J19, J24, O15
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8551
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?
We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search. Workers differ in their productivity, and search takes place along an extensive ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2015, 69 (1), 26-36)
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E24, J6
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8550
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José-Raimundo
Carvalho
Thierry
Magnac
Qizhou
Xiong
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College Choice Allocation Mechanisms: Structural Estimates and Counterfactuals
We evaluate a simple allocation mechanism of students to majors at college entry that was commonly used in universities in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s. Students first chose a single major and then ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2019, 10 (3), 1233 - 1277)
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C57, D47, I21
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8549
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Peter
Arcidiacono
V. Joseph
Hotz
Arnaud
Maurel
Teresa
Romano
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Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data
We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (12), 4475 - 4522)
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J24, I23, C31
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8548
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Philipp
Eisenhauer
James
J.
Heckman
Stefano
Mosso
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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments
We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (2), 331 - 357)
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C13, C15, C35, I21
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8547
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Adriana
Di Liberto
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Length of Stay in the Host Country and Educational Achievement of Immigrant Students: The Italian Case
Using Italian data on language standardized tests for three different levels of schooling we investigate if the observed gap in educational attainments in 1st generation immigrants tends to lower the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (4), 585-618)
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J15, I21
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8545
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Simone
Schüller
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Evidence and Persistence of Education Inequality in an Early-Tracking System: The German Case
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable ...
(published in: Scuola Democratica, 2014, 2)
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I24, I28, J24
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8544
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Allergy Test: Seasonal Allergens and Performance in School
Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 132-140.)
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I10, I20, I21
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8543
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Tilman
Brück
Michele
Di Maio
Sami
H.
Miaari
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Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement
We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (5), 1502 - 1037)
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I20, O12, O15, F51
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8542
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Sebastian
Böhm
Volker
Grossmann
Thomas
M.
Steger
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Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?
The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive expansion of higher education. We ...
(published as 'Does Expansion of Higher Education Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 132, 79-94)
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H20, J31, O30
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8541
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David
C.
Maré
Lynda
Sanderson
Richard
Fabling
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Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms
This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of ...
(published in: In W. Cochrane, M. P. Cameron, & O. Alimi (Eds.), Labor markets, migration, and mobility: Essays in honor of Jacques Poot, Springer Nature, 2021, 1 - 40)
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D22, J31, F23
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8540
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions
Several countries extend collective bargaining agreements to entire sectors, therefore binding non-subscriber workers and employers. These extensions may address coordination issues but may also ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59(2), 335–369)
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J31, J52, J23
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8539
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Guillermo
Alves
Gabriel
Burdin
Andres
Dean
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Workplace Democracy and Job Flows
This paper investigates the relationship between workplace democracy and job flows (net job creations, gross job creations and destructions) by comparing the behavior of worker-managed firms (WMFs) ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (2), 258–271)
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D21, J54, J63
|
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8538
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Vicente
Cuñat
Mireia
Giné
Maria
Guadalupe
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Say Pays! Shareholder Voice and Firm Performance
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2016, 20 (5), 1799 - 1834)
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G34, M52
|
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8537
|
Alex
Bryson
Richard
B.
Freeman
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Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation
Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, 57 (1), 86-106 )
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J24, J33, J54, J63, M52
|
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8535
|
Tilman
Drerup
Benjamin
Enke
Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
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Measurement Error in Subjective Expectations and the Empirical Content of Economic Models
While stock market expectations are among the most important primitives of portfolio choice models, their measurement has proved challenging for some respondents. We argue that the magnitude of ...
(published as: 'The precision of subjective data and the explanatory power of economic models' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 378-389)
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C35, C51, G11
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8534
|
Julian
Conrads
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2017, 12 (3), 595-611)
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D02, D83, C91
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