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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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16145
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Nicolas
Gendron-Carrier
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Prior Work Experience and Entrepreneurship: The Careers of Young Entrepreneurs
I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
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J24, J31, J62, L26
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16143
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Gabriella
Conti
Pamela
Giustinelli
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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34, 992 - 1012)
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C25, C83, D84, I12, I18
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16141
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Matthias
Rodemeier
Andreas
Löschel
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Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency ...
(published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae058, 21 January 2025)
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D61, D83, H21, Q41, Q48
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16139
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Wim
Naudé
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Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse
The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's ...
(published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023)
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O40, O33, D01, D64
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16137
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Dan
Monster
Julia
Nafziger
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Nudging in Complex Environments
To study the effects of reminder nudges in complex environments, we apply a novel experimental approach based on a computer game in which decision makers have to pay attention to and perform multiple ...
(published as 'Spillover effects of reminder nudges in complex environments' in: PNAS, 2024; 121 (17), e23225491)
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C9, D91
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16135
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Gaurav
Chiplunkar
Jeffrey
Weaver
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Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India
Dowry payments are common in many marriage markets. This paper uses data on over 74,000 marriages in rural India over the last century to explain why the institution of dowry emerges and how it ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, 103115)
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J12, N35, O15
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16130
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Oded
Stark
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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232)
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D01, D63, D91, I31, Z18
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16129
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Margaret
E.
Brehm
Olga
Malkova
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The Child Tax Credit over Time by Family Type: Benefit Eligibility and Poverty
We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 707 - 741)
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H24, H71, J22
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16128
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Liuchun
Deng
Steffen
Müller
Verena
Plümpe
Jens
Stegmaier
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Robots, Occupations, and Worker Age: A Production-Unit Analysis of Employment
We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104881)
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J23
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16124
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Thorben
Korfhage
Björn
Fischer
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Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884)
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I18, I38, J14, J22, J26
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16122
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Bart
Cockx
Sam
Desiere
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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104859)
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D22, H25, J08, J23, L26, M13
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16119
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Catarina
Goulăo
Juan
A.
Lacomba
Francisco
Miguel
Lagos
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain
Being overweight or obese is associated with lower employment and earnings, possibly arising from employer discrimination. A few studies have used field experiments to show that obese job applicants ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 218, 132-145)
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J64, J71
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16117
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Babs
Jacobs
Guido
Schwerdt
Rolf
Van der Velden
Stan
Vermeulen
Simon
Wiederhold
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Where Do STEM Graduates Stem From? The Intergenerational Transmission of Comparative Skill Advantages
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well ...
(this paper is an updated version of IZA DP No. 14854 (2021).)
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I24, I26, J12, J24, J62
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16116
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Mathias
Dolls
Carla
Krolage
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'Earned, Not Given'? The Effect of Lowering the Full Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions
This paper analyzes behavioral responses to a 2014 reform in the German public pension system that lowered the full retirement age (FRA) of individuals with a long contribution history by up to two ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics; 2023, 223, 104909)
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H55, J14, J18, J26
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16114
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Andrew
Burlinson
Apostolos
Davillas
Monica
Giulietti
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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption
The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. ...
(revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2025, 143, 108244)
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L94, Q42, Q55, P46, O33
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16112
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Marie-Noëlle
Lefebvre
Etienne
Lehmann
Michaël
Sicsic
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Estimating the Laffer Tax Rate on Capital Income: Cross-Base Responses Matter!
We theoretically express the Laffer tax rate on capital income as a function of the elasticities of capital income (the "direct" elasticity) and of labor income (the "cross" elasticity) with respect ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (3), 460 - 489)
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H21, H24, H31, C23, C26
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16110
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Risto
Conte
Keivabu
Marco
Cozzani
Joshua
Wilde
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Temperature and Fertility: Evidence from Spanish Register Data
In this paper, we combine administrative data for continental Spain from 2010 to 2018 with meteorological data to identify the effect of temperature on fertility. We demonstrate that warm (25-30°C) ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2024, 79 (2), 283–297. )
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J13, J11, J18, I12, Q54, Q56
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16107
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Andrea
Fazio
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
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Minimum Wage and Tolerance for High Incomes
We suggest that stabilizing the baseline income can make low-wage workers more tolerant towards high income earners. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by exploiting the introduction of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 155, 104445)
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H10, H53, D63, D69, Z1
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16106
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Tiziano
Ropele
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Olivier
Coibion
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Inflation Expectations and Misallocation of Resources: Evidence from Italy
Using Italian data that includes both inflation forecasts of firms and external information on their balance sheets, we study the causal effect of changes in the dispersion of beliefs about future ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2024, 6 (2), 246–261)
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E31, C83, D84, O47
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16103
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Michele
Ubaldi
Matteo
Picchio
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Intergenerational Scars: The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2025, 26 (1), 35-70)
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I14, J13, J62, J65
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16102
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Matthias
Sutter
Michael
Weyland
Anna
Untertrifaller
Manuel
Froitzheim
Sebastian
O.
Schneider
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Financial Literacy, Experimental Preference Measures and Field Behavior – A Randomized Educational Intervention
We present the results of a randomized intervention to study how teaching financial literacy to 16-year old high-school students affects their behavior in risk and time preference tasks. Compared to ...
(this paper presents an update of the former IZA Discussion Paper No. 13566)
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C93, D14, I21
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16101
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Catia
Batista
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (3), 835–844. )
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O12, O15, O16, O33, G20, R23
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16100
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Matthias
Collischon
Karolin
Hiesinger
Laura
Pohlan
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Disability and Labor Market Performance
This paper analyzes the individual-level effects of disability onset on labor market outcomes using novel administrative data from Germany. Combining propensity score matching techniques with an ...
(revised version published online as 'Disability Onset and Labor Market Outcomes ' in: Socio-Economic Review, 10 April 2025)
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I10, J14, J21, J71
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16097
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type
Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics: Time Use in Economics, 2023, 51, 187-218)
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J12, J16, I31, Z13
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16096
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Gautam
Hazarika
Maroula
Khraiche
Levent
Kutlu
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Gender Equity in Labor Market Opportunities and Aggregate Technical Efficiency: A Case of Equity Promoting Efficiency
This study applies a panel data stochastic frontier analysis to country data towards examining the effect of gender equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 56 (23), 2806–2817)
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J16
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16095
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Antonia
Diaz
Juan
J.
Dolado
Álvaro
Jáńez
Felix
Wellschmied
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Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain: A Tale of Two Recessions
This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both ...
(published as 'Labor reallocation effects of furlough schemes: Evidence from two recessions in Spain' in: European Economic Review, 2025, 171, 104894)
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J11, J18, J21, J64
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16092
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Yanran
Chen
Ruochen
Sun
Xi
Chen
Xuezheng
Qin
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Does Extreme Temperature Exposure Take a Toll on Mental Health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Long-term exposure to extreme temperatures could threaten individuals' mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study aims to investigate the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to extreme ...
(published in: Environment and Development Economics, 2023, 28 (5), 486-451)
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I12, I18, Q54
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16091
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Mette
Foged
Cynthia
van der Werf
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Access to Language Training and the Local Integration of Refugees
This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102366)
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J60, J24
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16090
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Naomi
Friedman-Sokuler
Claudia
Senik
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Time-Use and Subjective Well-Being: Is Diversity Really the Spice of Life?
Using the American and the French time-use surveys, we examine whether people have a preference for a more diversified mix of activities, in the sense that they experience greater well-being when ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 51 (1), 1-34.)
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I31, J22
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16087
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Alena
Bicakova
Matias
Cortes
Jacopo
Mazza
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Make Your Own Luck: The Wage Gains from Starting College in a Bad Economy
Using data for nearly 40 cohorts of American college graduates and exploiting regional variation in economic conditions, we show robust evidence of a positive relationship between the unemployment ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102411)
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I23, J24, J31, E32
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16086
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Benjamin
Cowan
Todd
R.
Jones
Jeffrey
Swigert
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Parental and Student Time Use around the Academic Year
We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15–17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 66-110)
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I2, I1, J2, D1
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16085
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Valentina
Di Iasio
Jackline
Wahba
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The Determinants of Refugees' Destinations: Where Do Refugees Locate within the EU?
The recent so called Mediterranean refugee crisis has ignited concerns about the magnitude of the flows of asylum seekers to Europe. This paper examines the determinants of the destination choice of ...
(published in: World Development, 2024, 177, 106533.)
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F22, J61, J15, O52
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16084
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Anthony
Lepinteur
Liyousew
G.
Borga
Andrew
E.
Clark
Claus
Vögele
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
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Risk Aversion and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
We here investigate the role of risk aversion in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The theoretical effect is ambiguous, as both COVID-19 infection and vaccination side-effects involve probabilistic ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32, 1659-1669)
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I12, D81
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16080
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Salim
Atay
Gunes
A.
Aşık
Semih
Tumen
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Impact of Graduating with Honors on Entry Wages of Economics Majors
Employers use various proxies to predict the future labor productivity levels of the job applicants. Success in school, especially in high-level coursework, is among the most widely used proxies to ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (3), 606-640)
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J31, J71, I26
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16079
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Hugh
Cassidy
Amanda
Gaulke
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The Increasing Penalty to Occupation-Education Mismatch
College-educated workers in jobs unrelated to their degree generally receive lower wages compared to well-matched workers. Our analysis of data from the National Survey of College Graduates shows ...
(revised version published in Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 607–632.)
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J24, I26, I23, J31
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16077
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Christian
Dustmann
Rasmus
Landersř
Lars
Hřjsgaard
Andersen
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 406 - 441)
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E64, I30, J60
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16073
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Pataporn
Sukontamarn
Niaz
Asadullah
Nopphawan
Photphisutthiphong
Yen Thi Hai
Nguyen
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Happiness in Old Age: The Daughter Connection
Family and intergenerational relationships are becoming increasingly important as sources of support and care for the elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 1729–1757)
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D10, I31, J13, J14
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16069
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Alina
Shirshikova
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The Women Empowering Effect of Higher Education
We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We found that opening a local university increased the likelihood of obtaining ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103101)
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I21, I23, J22, J24, O15, O55
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16067
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Alessandro
Cigno
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Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing?
A series of articles beginning with Basu and Van (1989) argue that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing in the sense that, once an equilibrium where only adults work is established, parents ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 62)
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J13, O12
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16066
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Werner
Eichhorst
Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Paul
Marx
Mathias
Dolls
Max
Lay
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Minimum Income Support Systems as Elements of Crisis Resilience in Europe
This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the ...
(updated version available as DP 17463)
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J64, J65, J68
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16062
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Christina
Gathmann
Christian
Kagerl
Laura
Pohlan
Duncan
H.W.
Roth
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The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102541)
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D22, E22, J23, J63
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16061
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Juliana
Silva Goncalves
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Locus of Control and the Preference for Agency
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how locus of control operates through people's preferences and beliefs to influence their decisions. Using the principal-agent setting of the delegation ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104737)
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D83, D87, D91
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16060
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Maryam
Naghsh Nejad
Serena
Yu
Philip
Haywood
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Provider Responses to the Expansion of Public Subsidies in Healthcare: The Case of Oral Chemotherapy Treatment in Australia
We examine provider responses to the expansion of public subsidies in 2015 for oral chemotherapy treatment, in a health system where providers were free to determine their own prices. Oral ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 330, 116041)
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I11, I13, D04
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16058
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Anjali
Adukia
Alex
Eble
Emileigh
Harrison
Hakizumwami
Birali
Runesha
Teodora
Szasz
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What We Teach about Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children's Books
Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We use computational tools to characterize representation in children’s books widely ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (4), 2225 - 2285)
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I24, I21, Z1, J15, J16
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16057
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Axana
Dalle
Philippe
Sterkens
Stijn
Baert
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A Poisoned Gift? The Hireability Signals of an Income-Support Program for the Senior Unemployed
Many OECD countries invest heavily in labour-market programs to prolong careers. Although active labour-market programs designed for this purpose have frequently been evaluated, less is known about ...
(published in: JODE Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (4), 553-588)
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J71, J32, J14
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16056
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Sebastian
Link
Manuel
Menkhoff
Andreas
Peichl
Paul
Schüle
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Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes
This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (4), 194 - 222)
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G11, H25, H32, H71, O16
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16053
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Jisoo
Hwang
Seung-sik
Hwang
Hyuncheol Bryant
Kim
Jungmin
Lee
Junseok
Lee
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Risk Compensation after COVID-19 Vaccination
This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We apply a regression discontinuity design around the birth date cutoff of vaccine ...
(updated version published as 'Risk compensation after COVID-19 vaccination: Evidence from vaccine rollout by exact birth date in South Korea' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (8), 1811 - 1830)
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I12, I18
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16052
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Adele
Whelan
Anne
Devlin
Seamus
McGuinness
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Social Inclusion and Levels of Urbanisation: Does It Matter Where You Live?
Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique ...
(revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74)
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R10, R58, P25, J15
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16049
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Vincenzo
Carrieri
Apostolos
Davillas
Victor
Hugo
de Oliveira
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On the Road to Equity: Examining Income-Related Inequalities in Ownership of Safer Vehicles
Using administrative DVLA data matched with micro-data from Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study we estimate income-related inequalities in ownership of vehicles with a set of ...
(published as 'On the road to equity: examining income-related inequalities in ownership of safer cars' in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3, odae002)
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I10, I14, R41
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16048
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Stacey
H.
Chen
Jennjou
Chen
Hongwei
Chuang
Tzu-Hsin
Lin
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Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival
We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (1), 15- 46)
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D83, I11, J44
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