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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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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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8069
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
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Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (1), 58-82)
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J24, J31
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8066
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Anna
De Paoli
Mariapia
Mendola
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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.)
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F22, F1, J61
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8064
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Christina
Gathmann
Nicolas
Keller
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Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141-3181)
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J24, J31, J61, K37
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8063
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Cristina
Mitaritonna
Gianluca
Orefice
Giovanni
Peri
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Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 96, 62 - 82)
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F22, E25, J61
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8062
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Jean-Louis
Pan Ké Shon
Gregory
Verdugo
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Forty Years of Immigrant Segregation in France, 1968-2007: How Different Is the New Immigration?
Analysing restricted access census data, this paper examines the long-term trends of immigrant segregation in France from 1968 to 2007. Similar to other European countries, France experienced a rise ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52 (5), 823-840)
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J61
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8059
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Sarojini
Hirshleifer
David
McKenzie
Rita
K.
Almeida
Cristobal
Ridao-Cano
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246 )
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I28, J24, J68, O12, C93
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8058
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Vojtech
Bartos
Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Filip
Matejka
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Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (6), 1437-1475)
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C93, D83, J15, J71
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8056
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Kyung-Gon
Lee
Solomon
Polachek
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Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school ...
(published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.)
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I20, I21, I22
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8055
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Michael
Kosfeld
Susanne
Neckermann
Xiaolan
Yang
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Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. ...
(published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247)
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C93, J33, M12, M52
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8054
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Ulla
Lehmijoki
Tapio
K.
Palokangas
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Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that ...
(revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki))
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O41, J13, N33
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8053
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Suzanne
Kok
Bas
ter Weel
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Cities, Tasks and Skills
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2014, 54 (5), 856-892)
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J20, J30, O30
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8052
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Juan
Carlos
Duque
Michael
Jetter
Santiago
Sosa
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UN Interventions: The Role of Geography
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a ...
(revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95)
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D74, F52, F53, N40, R12
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8051
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Ronelle
Burger
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Trudy
Owens
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Why Pay NGOs to Involve the Community?
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to NGOs to increase community participation. We show that, when such incentives are provided, there need not exist any meaningful ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2015, 86 (1), 7-31)
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I38, L31, L38
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8050
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Donald
J.
Lacombe
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Using Spatial Econometric Techniques to Analyze the Joint Employment Decisions of Spouses
Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (1), 67-77.)
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J22, D13
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8049
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Guido
W.
Imbens
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Matching Methods in Practice: Three Examples
There is a large theoretical literature on methods for estimating causal effects under unconfoundedness, exogeneity, or selection-on-observables type assumptions using matching or propensity score ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50 (2), 373 - 419)
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C01, C14, C21, C52
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8048
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Guido
W.
Imbens
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Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective
I review recent work in the statistics literature on instrumental variables methods from an econometrics perspective. I discuss some of the older, economic, applications including supply and demand ...
(published in: Statistical Science, 2014, 29 (3), 3232 - 358)
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C01
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8047
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Bas
van der Klaauw
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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 88-97)
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C21, C26, C93, J68
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8046
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Julia
Vaillant
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur ...
(Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre ŕ Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72)
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D13, D61, O12, J16
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8045
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Nick
Drydakis
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Effect of Sexual Orientation on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Greece
This study investigates the differences in four aspects of job satisfaction between gay men/lesbians and heterosexuals. The analysis results suggest that gay men and lesbians are less satisfied with ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2015, 54(1), 162-187)
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J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
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8044
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S
Anukriti
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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 27-57)
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D1, J13, J16, I15
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8043
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form ...
(revised version published as 'Does Grief Transfer across Generations? Bereavements during Pregnancy and Child Outcomes' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 193 - 223)
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I1, I2, J1
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8042
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Michael
Grimm
Carole
Treibich
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Why Do Some Motorbike Riders Wear a Helmet and Others Don't? Evidence from Delhi, India
We focus on helmet use behavior among motorbike users in Delhi. We use a detailed data set collected for the purpose of the study. To guide our empirical analysis, we rely on a simple model in which ...
(published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2016, 88, 318-336.)
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D10, I10, I15, K42, R41
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8041
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Maurice
Schiff
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Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (9), 1708-1717)
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D70, J22
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8039
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Aslan
Zorlu
Clara
H.
Mulder
Ruben
van Gaalen
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Ethnic Disparities in the Transition to Home Ownership
This paper examines ethnic disparities in the transition to home ownership using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands. The study performs a discrete duration model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2014, 26, 151-163)
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R21
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8038
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Kusum
Mundra
Amarendra
Sharma
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Housing Adequacy Gap for Minorities and Immigrants in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey
Home adequacy for different groups in the U.S. has not been adequately studied. Using the data from the national level American Housing Survey for the year 2009and logit model, this paper finds that ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Research, 2015,24 (1), 2015, 55-72.)
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R2, J15
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8037
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Irene
Mosca
Alan
Barrett
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The Impact of Adult Child Emigration on the Mental Health of Older Parents
A growing literature within economics has sought to examine the impacts of emigration on sending countries. Some of the studies have looked within families and have investigated how emigration ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (3), 687-719)
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I15, J61
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8036
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey
During last sixty years, Turkish population moved from one province to another at the rate of about 7-8 percent per five-year interval. As a consequence of this massive internal migration, population ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (1).)
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D72, J61
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8035
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Pierre
M.
Picard
Tim
Worrall
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Is a Policy of Free Movement of Workers Sustainable?
This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (4), 718-75)
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F22, J61
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8034
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Alison
L.
Booth
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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition
A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 53-58)
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J2, J3, J5, D4
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8033
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Marianna
Marino
Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
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Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 123 (3), 168-183)
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J24, J60, L20
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8032
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Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Nina
Smith
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Long-Term Effects of School Size on Students' Outcomes
We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 28-43)
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I21, I28, J24
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8031
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Libertad
González
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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. ...
(published as 'Recessions and Babies' Health' in: Economics & Human Biology, Volume 37, May 2020, 100836.)
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E32, I10, J13
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8030
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Peng
Nie
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(20), 2418–2428)
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I12, J13, J22
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8029
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Petri
Böckerman
Alex
Bryson
Jutta
Viinikainen
Christian
Hakulinen
Laura
Pulkki-Raback
Olli
Raitakari
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Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine
Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 259-274)
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J24, J31, I12
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8028
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Sandra
Nieto
Raul
Ramos
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Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high ...
(published in: Prospects, 2015, 45(3), 325-343)
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J24, I21, I25
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8026
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R?ta
Ubarevi?ien?
Maarten
van Ham
Donatas
Burneika
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Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in post-socialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on the population decline of capital cities ...
(published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379))
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J11, J61, P20, R23
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8023
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Tirthatanmoy
Das
Solomon
Polachek
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Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program
We examine the effect of California Paid Family Leave (CPFL) on young women's (less than 42 years of age) labor force participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015, 33 (4), 619-635. )
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H43, J13, J18, J48
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8021
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Maria
De Paola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 217–236)
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D03, I21, D91, J01, J24
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8020
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Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
Matthias
Sutter
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74)
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C91, D03, D63, D64
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8019
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Peter
Fredriksson
Björn
Öckert
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background
Studies on the effect of class size on student achievement typically find that disadvantaged students benefit more from reduced class size than others. To better understand this differential impact, ...
(published as 'Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51(4), 832-868.)
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I21, I28, J24, C31
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