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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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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
Jáñez
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
Landersø
Lars
Højsgaard
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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16047
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Emilio
Depetris-Chauvin
Ömer
Özak
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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 243, 111921)
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D74, N57, O13, O17, O43, P48, Q15, Q34
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16046
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Andrea
Fazio
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Francesco
Scervini
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Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge
Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 96, 102624)
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D64, O35
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16045
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Iga
Magda
Ewa
Cukrowska-Torzewska
Marta
Palczyńska
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What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework
Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2024, 45, 1–20)
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D10, D13, D31, J12, J16, J22
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16044
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Torun
Österberg
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In and Out of Privileged and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Sweden – On the Importance of Country of Birth
Moves into and out of privileged neighborhoods as well as moves into and out of disadvantaged neighborhoods in metropolitan Sweden are studied using register data on all moves by adults that took ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2023, 29 (4) e2657)
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J15, J61, R23
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16042
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Christian
Grund
Alexandra
Soboll
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Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations
In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2025, 19, 729–756)
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J3, M5
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16041
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Piotr
Lewandowski
Katarzyna
Lipowska
Mateusz
Smoter
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Mismatch in Preferences for Working from Home – Evidence from Discrete Choice Experiments with Workers and Employers
We study workers' and employers' preferences for remote work, estimating the willingness to pay for working from home (WFH) using discrete choice experiments with more than 10,000 workers and more ...
(published online in: ILR Review, 03 August 2025)
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J21, J31, J81
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16040
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Sebastian
Till
Braun
Jan
Stuhler
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Exposure to War and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle
With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic History, 2026)
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J24, J26, N34
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16039
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Hamed
Markazi Moghadam
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Joanna
Tyrowicz
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Pension Reforms and Couples' Labour Supply Decisions
To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102627)
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J22, J26
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16036
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Panka
Bencsik
Lester
Lusher
Rebecca
L.C.
Taylor
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Slow Traffic, Fast Food: The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2025, 146, 103737)
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I12, I30, J22, R41
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16035
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Adrian
Chadi
Laszlo
Goerke
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Seeking Shelter in Times of Crisis? Unemployment, Perceived Job Insecurity and Trade Union Membership
Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (359), 1041-1088)
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D84, J51, J63
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16034
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Natalia
Danzer
Carsten
Feuerbaum
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Military Spending and Innovation: Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (4), 831–854, )
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H56, O31, O14, N43
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16031
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Paul
Redmond
Seamus
McGuinness
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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked: Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector
A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies ...
(published in Economica, 2025, 92, (365), 84-106)
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E24, J22, J23, J31, J42
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