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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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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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8519
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK
We investigate the relationship between an individuals' reservation wage, i.e. the lowest wage acceptable in order to enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 126, 22-24)
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J64, J31, R23
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8518
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Matthew
Groh
David
McKenzie
Nour
Shammout
Tara
Vishwanath
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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:7)
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O12, O15, J64, J08
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8517
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Luc
Behaghel
Bruno
Crépon
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (3), 1 - 27)
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J71, J78
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8516
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Stijn
Baert
Eddy
Omey
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Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size
We study the causal impact of revealing pro-unionism during the recruitment stage on hiring chances. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market. When matched ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 263 - 280)
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J53, J71, C93
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8515
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Britta
Kohlbrecher
Christian
Merkl
Daniela
Nordmeier
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Revisiting the Matching Function
This paper shows analytically and numerically that there are two ways of generating an observationally equivalent comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, 69, 350–374.)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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8514
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
Jae
Song
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1799-1860)
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F16, H55, J23, J31, J63
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8513
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Miriam
Mäder
Steffen
Müller
Regina
T.
Riphahn
Caroline
Schwientek
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 235 (4-5), 355–375)
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J62, C21, C26
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8512
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Alexandre
Mas
Xiaotong
Niu
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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
This paper documents that rotation group bias – the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys – in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 258 - 264)
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J01, J64
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8511
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Vincenzo
Caponi
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Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences
This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 63, 1-12)
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E24, J60
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8510
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John
S.
Earle
Scott
Gehlbach
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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723)
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H32, D72, P26
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