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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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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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8159
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Matt
Dickson
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
Hélène
Turon
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The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe
In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 141–161)
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J45, J31, J62
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8158
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Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
Hipólito
Simón
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 2014, 208 (1), 107-141)
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C2, E3, J3, J4
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8157
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Jesper
Roine
Daniel
Waldenström
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592)
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D31, H2, J3, N3
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8156
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Tetsushi
Murao
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Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment
Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2014, 46(S2), 95–116)
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E24, J64, J65, K31
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8155
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Werner
Eichhorst
Verena
Tobsch
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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48 (2), 81-95)
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J21, J31, J42
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8154
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Ive
Marx
Brian
Nolan
Javier
Olivera
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 2063-2139)
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I3, I38, D63
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8153
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
L.
Averett
Cynthia
Bansak
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Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility
Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 757-779.)
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J13, I38
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8151
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Carlo
Devillanova
Francesco
Fasani
Tommaso
Frattini
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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (4), 853-881 )
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F22, J61, K37
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8150
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Bruno
Decreuse
Morgane
Laouénan
Alain
Trannoy
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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 107 - 160)
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J15, J61, R23
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8149
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Raven
Molloy
Christopher
L.
Smith
Abigail
Wozniak
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Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (2), 631-653.)
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J6, J1
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8148
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Marco
Vivarelli
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter ...
(published in: Economic Change and Restructuring , 2016, 49, 159-193)
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O14, O33
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8146
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Michael
Grimm
Robert
Sparrow
Luca
Tasciotti
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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, )
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H43, H54, J13, J22, O18, Q40
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8145
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Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
Almas
Heshmati
Jörn
Altmann
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the ...
(published as 'Alternative Renewable Energy Production Technologies' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 31-64)
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D61, D62, H23, N50, O13, Q52, Q55
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8144
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Deniz
Ozabaci
Daniel
J.
Henderson
Liangjun
Su
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Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors
In this paper we consider nonparametric estimation of a structural equation model under full additivity constraint. We propose estimators for both the conditional mean and gradient which are ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32, 555-575)
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C14, C36, I21, J13
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8143
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Corrado
Andini
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Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns
A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51 (2), 319-337)
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C23, I21, J31
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8142
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (1), 45-59 )
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I2, J22, J24
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8141
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Nils
Saniter
Thomas
Siedler
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Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Student Internships on Labor Market Outcomes
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at ...
(revised version published as 'Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (4), 1242-1275 (joint with Shushanik Margaryan and Mathias Schumann))
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I23, J01, J31
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8140
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Paolo
Naticchioni
Michele
Raitano
Claudia
Vittori
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La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy
This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, ...
(published in: Economia Politica, 2016, 33 (2), 233-264)
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J24, J31
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8138
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Steffen
Ahrens
Inske
Pirschel
Dennis
J.
Snower
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A Theory of Price Adjustment under Loss Aversion
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 78-95)
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D03, D21, E31, E50
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8136
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208)
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C91, D31, D63, I31
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8135
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Ghazala
Azmat
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 32-40)
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J16, J24, J71, C91, C92, C93
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8134
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L. Rachel
Ngai
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9, 1-44)
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E24, J22, J16
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8131
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Alois
Stutzer
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Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, ...
(published in: K. Sheldon and R.E. Lucas (eds.): Stability of Happiness, 2014)
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D03, D60, I31
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8130
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Thomas
Buser
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Erik
Plug
Juan
Ponce
José
Rosero
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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808)
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I14, H51, C31
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8129
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John
H.
Pencavel
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2052-2076)
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J24, J22, N34
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8128
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Roy
E.
Bailey
Timothy
J.
Hatton
Kris
Inwood
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Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century
We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2016, 69(1), 35–53)
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I12, J13, N33
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8127
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Mark
Wooden
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What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 107-126)
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I31, J71
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8126
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Naci
Mocan
Christian
Raschke
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The ...
(published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 1-63)
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J15, I30, Z10
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8125
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
José
Varejão
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Labour Demand Research: Towards a Better Match between Better Theory and Better Data
At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 4-11)
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J23, J3, J4, J5, D4, F66
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8123
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Eliav
Danziger
Leif
Danziger
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A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage
This paper shows that a graduated minimum wage, in contrast to a constant minimum wage, can provide a strict Pareto improvement over what can be achieved with an optimal income tax. The reason is ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 236–252)
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J30
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8122
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Ritashree
Chakrabarti
Junfu
Zhang
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Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to ...
(shorter version published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52(6), 1134-1151)
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R11, R12, R13
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8120
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Mthuli
Ncube
Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Zorobabel
Bicaba
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Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030
With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank ...
(revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110)
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I32, E21, J11, C63
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8118
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
This paper contains a review of the early history of program evaluation research at the US Department of Labor. Some broad lessons for successful evaluation research are summarized.
(published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577)
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B4, C21, J8
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8116
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Miki
Kobayashi
Emiko
Usui
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Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan
Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 579–596)
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J13
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8115
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Jochen
Kluve
Sebastian
Schmitz
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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after ...
(revised version published as 'Back to Work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium-run' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2018, 71 (1), 143 - 173 )
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H31, J13, J22
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8113
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Astrid
Kunze
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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of children on male earnings and inequality' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 18, 683 - 710, 2020)
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J22, J24, J31, J13, J16
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8112
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Christian
Grund
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Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter
Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126)
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M52, J31, J33
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8111
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Andrew
Henley
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Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the strength of the potential relationship between entrepreneurial activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and ...
(published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617)
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L26, M13, O43, Z12
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8110
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Joop
Hartog
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 125-153)
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I21, J22, J24, J31
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8109
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Tim
Friehe
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.)
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K42, H23, C91
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