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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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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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8108
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Wendelin
Schnedler
Christoph
Vanberg
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Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115)
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D1, M5, D8, D4, C9
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8107
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Michal
Bauer
Nathan
Fiala
Ian
Levely
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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.)
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C93, D03, D74, O12
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8106
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Teresa
Randazzo
Matloob
Piracha
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Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153)
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F24, O12, O15
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8105
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Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582)
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D89, L83, D81
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8104
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Gary
Charness
Francesco
Feri
Miguel
A.
Meléndez-Jiménez
Matthias
Sutter
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Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are ...
(slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670)
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C71, C91, D03, D85
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8102
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Marco
Alberto
De Benedetto
Maria
De Paola
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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a ...
(published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50)
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D72, D78, J45
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8101
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Katja
Görlitz
Sylvi
Rzepka
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Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?
Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (1), 281-296)
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J24, R12
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8100
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Nils
Saniter
Thomas
Siedler
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The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes
This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Knowledge and Educational Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of Job Information Centers' (with D. Schnitzlein) in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 108-124)
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I2, J24, J31
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8098
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John
W.
Budd
Aaron
Sojourner
Jaewoo
Jung
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (4), 865 - 893)
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J52, M12, M5
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8097
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Olivier
Godart
Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we ...
(published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70(4), 894-918)
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M54, M12
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8096
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Michael
Gibbs
Susanne
Neckermann
Christoph
Siemroth
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(4), 577-590)
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C93, J24, M52, O32
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8095
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Farzana
Afridi
Vegard
Iversen
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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits ...
(published in: India Policy Forum, 2013-14, 10, 297-331)
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H4, I3
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8094
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Arusha
Cooray
Friedrich
Schneider
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Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310)
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O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
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8093
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Junfu
Zhang
Liang
Zheng
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Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice ...
(revised version published as 'Are People Willing to Pay for Less Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 97-112 )
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O15, R12, R23
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8092
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Immigrants and Religion
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
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Z12, J61, J11, J15
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8091
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Lídia
Farré
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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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8090
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Sebastian
Otten
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Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.)
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F22, J15, J24, J40
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8089
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Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
Yves
Zenou
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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111 - 137)
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O15, J61
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8088
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Gregory
Verdugo
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The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008
Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was also characterised by a substantial increase in the educational attainment of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 131-144)
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J31
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8087
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Ugo
Colombino
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Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour
The current Italian income support policies are defective with respect to both efficiency and equity. A more effective design must face five crucial choices: universal vs. categorical policies; ...
(revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389)
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H31, H21, C25
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8086
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James
Lake
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade
Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 99, 156-178)
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F13, H50, J65
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8085
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Maria
Cipollina
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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative ...
(published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377)
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C81, F23, O52
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8084
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Tymon
Sloczynski
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
In this paper we study doubly robust estimators of various average treatment effects under unconfoundedness. We unify and extend much of the recent literature by providing a very general ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133)
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C13, C21, C31, C51
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8079
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Christian
Dreger
Teymur
Rahmani
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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This ...
(published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2016, 40 (1), 36 - 49)
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F43, O53, Q30, C33
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8077
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Jungmin
Lee
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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" – would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2017, 44, 1-12)
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J22, J23, J28
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8076
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is ...
( published as 'Unemployment fluctuations over the life cycle' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2019, 100 (C), 334-352.)
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E32, J11, J23
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8075
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Robert
Scholte
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
Dorly
J. H.
Deeg
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Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 26 (1), 86 - 103)
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I12, C33, J14
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8074
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Andrew
Dillon
Jed
Friedman
Pieter
Serneels
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Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and ...
(published as 'Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 1077 - 1115)
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I12, J22, J24, O12
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8073
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Osea
Giuntella
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel with detailed local labor market characteristics for ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics ,2015, 43, 140–153)
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F22, I10, J15, J61
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8070
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Laurens
Cherchye
Thomas
Demuynck
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (6), 1507 - 1534)
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C14, D11, C78
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