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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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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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8018
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
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Gender Differences in Strategic Behaviour under Competitive Pressure: Evidence on Omission Patterns in University Entrance Examinations
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 94-110)
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J16, I21, I23
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8017
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Resul
Cesur
Naci
Mocan
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as ...
(published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44)
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I2, Z12, D72
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8016
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Markus
Nagler
Ludger
Woessmann
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Education Promoted Secularization
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source ...
(published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311)
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Z12, N33, I20
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8015
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?
Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a growing distinctive group in future labour markets. University dropout is ...
(revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96)
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I21
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8014
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Naomi
E.
Feldman
Andrew
Leigh
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Crime and Mental Wellbeing
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (1), 110-140)
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I31, R28
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8013
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Jérôme
Adda
Brendon
McConnell
Imran
Rasul
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Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment
We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. Such a policy can: (i) impact the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(5), 1130-1202)
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H75, J18, K42
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8010
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Gordon
G.
Liu
Ohyun
Kwon
Xindong
Xue
Belton
M.
Fleisher
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a ...
(published as 'How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?-Evidence from China's Academician Election' in: Health Economics, 2017, 26, 292-304.)
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I12
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8009
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Charles
Courtemanche
Joshua
C.
Pinkston
Jay
Stewart
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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not weigh and measure respondents. The standard correction from prior research ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293)
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C18, I1
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8008
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Paula
Nagler
Wim
Naudé
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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the ...
(published as 'Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence' in: Food Policy, 2017, 67, 175-191)
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Q12, O13, O55, M13, J43
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8007
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Delphine
Boutin
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Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. ...
(published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938)
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F24, I25, J22
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8005
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James
Albrecht
Aico
van Vuuren
Susan
Vroman
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Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited
Derek Neal (JPE 2004) used the NLSY79 to show that the observed median log wage gap between young white and young black women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 66-71)
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J15, J16, J31, J71
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8004
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Ilhom
Abdulloev
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation
Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods ...
(published in: Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot & Jessie Bakens (eds) Economics on Cultural Diversity, 2015, Edward Elgar Pub: Cheltenham, UK, 52-77)
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J15
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8003
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Ilham
Haouas
Almas
Heshmati
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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but ...
(published in: International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 144, 7-23)
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C22, E20, L16, L71, O11, O53
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8001
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Jo
Ritzen
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
Caroline
Wehner
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Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes ...
(completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576)
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D31, J31, O43, O52, P48, Z18
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8000
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James
J.
Heckman
Stefano
Mosso
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life ...
(published in: Annual Reviews of Economics, 2014, 6(1), 689-733)
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J13, I20, I24, I28
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7999
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Pia
Pinger
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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 103-120)
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I12, J11
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7998
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 141-161)
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D13, D61, D64
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7997
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Sonia
Oreffice
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Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples
This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2014, 35(2), 162-184)
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D1, J15, J22
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7996
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Susan
L.
Averett
Yang
Wang
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences. Researchers have documented a strong positive correlation between alcohol abuse and ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 82 (3), 697 - 724)
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I12, I18, J12
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7995
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Victor
Naroditskiy
Sebastian
Stein
Mirco
Tonin
Long
Tran-Thanh
Michael
Vlassopoulos
Nicholas
R.
Jennings
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to ...
(published in: Proceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014, 171-183)
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C93, D64, L31, M31
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