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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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8218
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David
L.
Dickinson
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners
Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a Voluntary ...
(Revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 126, 74-85)
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C92, H41, D63
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8217
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Haoran
He
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that ...
(revised version published as 'Are group members less inequality averse than individual decision makers?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 138, 111-124.)
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C91, C92, D03, D63, D72
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8216
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Matthias
Wibral
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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(3), 408-431)
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C91, D02, L14
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8215
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Alpaslan
Akay
Lisa
Andersson
Peter
Martinsson
Haileselassie
Medhin
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Positional Concerns among the Poor: Does Reference Group Matter? Evidence from Survey Experiments
Previous research suggests a lower degree of positional concerns among people from poor countries. Yet the evidence is limited and most often builds on the assumption that people’s reference groups ...
(revised version published in: Journal of African Economics, 2014, 23(5), 673-699)
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D60, C90
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8213
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Noelia
Bernal
Miguel
A.
Carpio
Tobias
J.
Klein
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The Effects of Access to Health Insurance for Informally Employed Individuals in Peru
Many developing countries have recently increased health insurance coverage at a large scale. While it is commonly believed that this has positive effects, to date, it is not well understood through ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 154, 122-136)
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I13, O12, O17
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8212
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Elizabeth
Kaletski
Nishith
Prakash
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
This paper examines the impact of state level political reservation for two minority groups – Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 87, 50 - 69)
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I38, J15, J22, J78
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8210
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Carla
Calero
Carlos
Henrique
Corseuil
Veronica
Gonzales
Jochen
Kluve
Yuri
Soares
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Can Arts-Based Interventions Enhance Labor Market Outcomes among Youth? Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rio de Janeiro
This paper provides findings of a small-scale, innovative labor training program that uses expressive arts and theatre as a pedagogical tool. The corresponding life skills training component is ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 131 - 142)
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J24, J68, I38
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8209
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Pedro
Carneiro
Emanuela
Galasso
Rita
Ginja
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Tackling Social Exclusion: Evidence from Chile
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (617), 172-208.)
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C26, I38, J08
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8208
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Sřren
Dalsgaard
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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Consequences of ADHD Medication Use for Children's Outcomes
This paper estimates effects of early ADHD medication use on key human capital outcomes for children diagnosed with ADHD while using rarely available register based data on diagnoses and prescription ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 137-151)
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I11, I12
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8206
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Louise
Voldby
Beuchert
Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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The Length of Maternity Leave and Family Health
We study the relationship between the length of maternity leave and the physical and psychological health of the family. Using a reform of the parental leave scheme in Denmark that increased the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 55-71)
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I18, J13, J18
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8205
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Petri
Böckerman
Ohto
Kanninen
Ilpo
Suoniemi
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A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Incentive Effect of Sick Pay on Absence
This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the ...
(published as "A Kink that Makes You Sick: The Effect of Sick Pay on Absence" in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (4), 568-579)
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I13, I18, J22
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8204
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Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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The Effects of the Great Recession on Teenagers' Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use
This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession ...
(published as 'Teenagers’ Risky Health Behaviors and Time Use During the Great Recession' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 945–964)
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J22, J11
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8203
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Stefanie
Schurer
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Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality
Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,133, 1-20, 2017)
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I12, J24
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8201
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Trudie
Schils
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Gender Gaps in Primary School Achievement: A Decomposition into Endowments and Returns to IQ and Non-cognitive Factors
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 176-187)
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I21, I24
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8199
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David
Wildasin
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international ...
(published in: M. Gérard and S. Uebelmesser (eds.), The Mobility of Students and the Highly Skilled: Implications for Education Financing and Economic Policy, MIT Press, 2014)
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J11, J24, J61, H2, H5
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8198
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Marcelo
Bergolo
Guillermo
Cruces
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Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs: Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension
This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and to report earnings to the tax authorities. The analysis is based on a social ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 211-228)
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J22, H26, O17
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8196
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Bhanu
Gupta
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
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Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
This paper examines how local politics affects public fund allocations. It uses the context of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 41 (1), 14-30)
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D72, J08, H53, H75
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8195
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Catia
Batista
Tara
McIndoe Calder
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.)
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F22, L26, O15
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8194
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Rachel
Connelly
Michael
Iannotti
Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
Dandan
Zhang
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Coresidency, Ethnicity, and Happiness of China's Rural Elders
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 ...
(published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 70 - 88 )
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D13, J12, J14, J15
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8193
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Michael
Grimm
Anna Luisa
Paffhausen
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Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Worldwide 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85)
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D22, G21, J21, O10
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8192
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Mthuli
Ncube
Zorobabel
Bicaba
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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2015, 67 (3), 11 - 26)
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J11, J08, L26, O11
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8191
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Florencia
López Bóo
Maria
Eugenia
Canon
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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter ...
(published in:Economics Letters, 2014, 124(1), 55-59)
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I2, J1, J7
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8189
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Takao
Kato
Naomi
Kodama
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Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural ...
(revised version published as 'Deregulating Overtime Hours Restrictions on Women and Its Effects on Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (4), 804-821)
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J16, J78, J81, J82, J88
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8188
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Marike
Knoef
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1025-1061.)
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C41, C93, I38, J64
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8187
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Laura
Dague
Thomas
DeLeire
Lindsey
Leininger
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The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply
This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, non-disabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use ...
(published in: American Econonomic Review, 2017, 9 (2), 124 - 154)
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I13, J22
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8185
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Lutz
C.
Kaiser
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The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations. Firstly, the theoretical background and the literature are identified. Within this ...
(published in: M. Connerley, J. Wu (eds.), The Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women, Springer 2016, 429-448)
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J16, J24, J4, J71, J78
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8184
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Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Crosetto
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A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (11), 3138 - 3160)
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C81, C91, D81
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8183
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Ruohong
Cai
Shuaizhang
Feng
Mariola
Pytlikova
Michael
Oppenheimer
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Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage
While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate-migration relationship, particularly in the context of concerns about global climatic change, little is known about underlying ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, 79, 135-151.)
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Q54, J10
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8182
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Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
Almas
Heshmati
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The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative ...
(published as 'Financing Renewable Energy Development' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 85-106)
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H23, L71, O13, O31, Q27, Q42
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8181
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Ming-Jen
Lin
Elaine
M.
Liu
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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 152-163)
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I12, N35, I19
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8180
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Hendrik
Wolff
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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(578), F481–F512)
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Q58, R48
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8179
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Jennifer
Alix-Garcia
Hendrik
Wolff
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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's ...
(published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, 361-380)
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H23, H43, J43, Q23
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8178
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
Marc
Henry
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Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models
This paper contributes to the literature on hedonic models in two ways. First, it makes use of Queyranne's reformulation of a hedonic model in the discrete case as a network flow problem in order to ...
(published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2014, 8 (4), 405-416)
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D12, J3, L11
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8177
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Alex
Bryson
Arnaud
Chevalier
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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 51-63)
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J15, J23, J24, J71, M51
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8176
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Daniel
Borowczyk-Martins
Jake
Bradley
Linas
Tarasonis
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 106-127)
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J31, J64, J71
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8175
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Meta
Brown
Elizabeth
Setren
Giorgio
Topa
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Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 161–209)
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J30, J63, J64
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8174
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Perihan
Saygin
Andrea
Weber
Michčle
Weynandt
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Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. This paper studies the mechanisms by which social networks have an impact on labor market outcomes of ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (1), 95-130)
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J63, J64, M51
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8173
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Pierre
Cahuc
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Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions
This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 22-29)
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J6, J31, J38
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8172
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Edmund
Cannon
Giam Pietro
Cipriani
Katia
Bazar-Rosen
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Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897)
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D82, G22
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8171
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Angelo
Mele
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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates ...
(published as 'Viral Altruism? Charitable Giving and Social Contagion in Online Networks' in: Sociological Science, 2016, 3, 202 - 289)
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D64, C93
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8170
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Luca
Corazzini
Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Vanin
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Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 10(4), e0121530)
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D03, I10, C91
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8169
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Stephan
Meier
Lamar
Pierce
Antonino
Vaccaro
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92)
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C91, C92
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8168
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David
Akerlund
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Hans
Grönqvist
Lena
Lindahl
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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a ...
(published as 'Time Discounting and Criminal Behavior' in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 133, 22)
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K4, D03, D90
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8167
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Sarah
Mohan
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A Survey of the Economics of Fair Trade
Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29(5), 855-868)
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O19, P46
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8165
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Verena
Dill
Uwe
Jirjahn
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, 40(1), 123-140)
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F23, G34, M16, P10
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8164
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Pablo
Agnese
Jana
Hromcová
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Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could ...
(published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426)
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J68, F66
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8163
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World ...
(published as 'Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values' in: Polish Political Science Review, 2017, 5 (1), 73 - 110)
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C43, F50, Z12, D73
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8162
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Fabrizio
Coricelli
Luigi
Moretti
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Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity ...
(published as 'Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019, 103, 88-104)
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C33, F15, F43, O52
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8161
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Wolfgang
Dauth
Jens
Suedekum
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (5), 1007-1034 )
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R11, O14, F16
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8160
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Nava
Kahana
Doron
Klunover
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Rent Seeking and the Excess Burden of Taxation
The social costs of rent seeking are generally evaluated with respect to rent dissipation. A common assumption is complete rent dissipation so that the value of a contested rent is the value of ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 35,158 - 167)
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H2
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