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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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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
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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
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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
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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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8533
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Sebastian
Kube
Sebastian
Schaube
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
Elina
Khachatryan
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Institution Formation and Cooperation with Heterogeneous Agents
Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 248-268.)
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C90, D02, D62, D63, H41
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8531
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Vincent
Bignon
Eve
Caroli
Roberto
Galbiati
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Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
Using local administrative data from 1826 to 1936, we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification ...
(published as 'Stealing to Survive? Crime and Income Shocks in Nineteenth Century France in: Economic Journal, 2016, 127 (595), 19 - 49)
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K42, N33, R11
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8530
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Sarah
Brown
Daniel
Gray
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Household Finances and Well-Being: An Empirical Analysis of Comparison Effects
This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well-being. Initially, the empirical analysis, based on a large nationally representative panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 17–36)
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D14, I31, J28
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8528
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Peng
Nie
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Xiaobo
He
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Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 47-69)
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I10, I15, J13, C14
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8527
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Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a ...
(revised version published as 'Beauty, Body Size and Wages: Evidence from a Unique Data Set ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 22, 24-34.)
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D1, J1
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8526
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Xing
(Michelle)
Liu
Eva
Sierminska
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Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 6)
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J71, J31, J2, J16
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8525
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Esther
Gehrke
Michael
Grimm
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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2018, 66 (4): 673 - 707.)
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D24, O12, Q12
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8523
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David
McKenzie
Dean
Yang
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Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30(2), 155-92)
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O15, F22
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8522
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Vincenzo
Scoppa
Manuela
Stranges
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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using ...
(published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.)
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Z10, Z13, J10, J15, J16, J20
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8521
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Roswitha
M.
King
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Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind
We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on ...
(published as "Does emigration reduce corruption?" in: Public Choice, 2017, 171 (3-4), 389–408)
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F22, F24, D73
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8520
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Milena
Nikolova
Carol
Lee
Graham
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In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries
The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 112, 164-186)
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F22, I31, J61, O15
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