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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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7562
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Chunbing
Xing
Junfu
Zhang
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The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90)
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O15, R12, R23
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7561
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Massimo
Bordignon
Tommaso
Nannicini
Guido
Tabellini
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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (8), 2349-70)
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H72, D72, C14
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7558
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Lídia
Farré
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain
Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:1)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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7557
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Olivier
Deschenes
Michael
Greenstone
Joseph
S.
Shapiro
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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade ...
(published as 'Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program' in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (10), 2958–2989))
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H4, I1, Q4, Q5, D1
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7556
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Tim
Higgins
Mathias
Sinning
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Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans
This paper studies the importance of dynamic earnings modeling for the design of income contingent student loans (ICLs). ICLs have been shown to be theoretically optimal in terms of efficiency in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37 (1), 273-285)
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H81, I22, C15
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7555
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Mary
Gallagher
John
T.
Giles
Albert
Park
Meiyan
Wang
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The ...
(revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235)
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J08, J16, J28, J41, J52, J53, O15, O17
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7554
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, 54-62)
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D12, C35, C31, D61, C9
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7552
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James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31)
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C21, C38, C43, D24
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7551
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nikhil
Jha
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Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources
The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools' budget ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2016, 49 (3), 251 – 271)
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I21, I22, I28
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7549
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Giovanni
Peri
Agnese
Romiti
Mariacristina
Rossi
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Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement
Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a consequence of population aging assistance to elderly parents, rather than child care, has ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 18-34)
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J22, J26, F22
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7548
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Maurice
Kugler
Oren
Levintal
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In ...
(Published in: World Bank Economic Review, 32, 1, 2018: 148–162 )
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F21, F22, O1
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7547
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Wim
Naudé
José
Ernesto
Amorós
Oscar
Cristi
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'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries
We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing ...
(published as 'Should We Romanticize Penniless Entrepreneurs?: Startups and Human Wellbeing across Countries' in: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012, 1, 15914)
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I31, M13, O50
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7546
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David
N.F.
Bell
Alasdair
C.
Rutherford
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Older Workers and Working Time
Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 28-34)
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J01, J11, J21, J22, J23, J38, J64
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7545
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Katharina
Janke
Carol
Propper
Michael A.
Shields
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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 47, 34-49.)
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I12, I18, R23
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7543
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Wim
Naudé
Adam
Szirmai
Alejandro
Lavopa
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing ...
(published as 'Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment' in: W. Naudé, A. Szirmai, and N. Haraguch (eds.), Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015)
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F23, L52, L53, O25, O40, O33, O34
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7542
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Daniel
Fackler
Claus
Schnabel
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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Spinoffs in Germany: Characteristics, Survival, and the Role of their Parents', in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 46 (1), 93-114 ( co-authored by Alexandra Schmucker,))
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L2, D22, M13, C41
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7540
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Eric
Bartelsman
Sabien
Dobbelaere
Bettina
Peters
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2015, 24(5), 875-949)
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C10, I20, O14, O30
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7538
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Erdal
Tekin
Chandler
McClellan
Karen Jean
Minyard
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th ...
(published as 'Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 16, 1017 - 1026)
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E32, I00, I10, I12, I14, I15
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7537
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Tyas
Prevoo
Bas
ter Weel
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The Importance of Early Conscientiousness for Socio-Economic Outcomes: Evidence from the British Cohort Study
This research estimates models of the importance of conscientiousness for socio-economic outcomes. We use measures of conscientiousness at age 16 to explain adult wages and other outcomes, such as ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (4), 918-948)
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J24
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7536
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Xiaoyan
Lei
James
P.
Smith
Xiaoting
Sun
Yaohui
Zhao
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Gender Differences in Cognition in China and Reasons for Change over Time: Evidence from CHARLS
In this paper, we model gender differences in cognitive ability in China using a new sample of middle-aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey ...
(published as 'Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time: Evidence from CHARLS' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 46-55)
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H10
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7535
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James
P.
Smith
Meng
Tian
Yaohui
Zhao
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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline
There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2013, 1-2, 50 - 59, )
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I10, I14
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7534
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Richard
Fabling
David
C.
Maré
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Firm-Level Hiring Difficulties: Persistence, Business Cycle and Local Labour Market Influences
We examine the correlates of reported hiring difficulties at the firm level using linked employer-employee and panel survey data over 2005-2011, focussing on the relative influence of firm-level ...
(published in: Journal of Labour Research, 2016, 37, 179 - 210)
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E24, J23, J63, M51
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7532
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Maja
Adena
Michal
Myck
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Poverty and Transitions in Health
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty and Transitions in Health in Later Life' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 116, 202–210)
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I14, I32, J14
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7531
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Rachel
Connelly
Jean
Kimmel
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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2015, 21 (1), 1-34)
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D13, J13, J16
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7530
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
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Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants
We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands towards integration. Shortly after the attacks, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 45 - 67)
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F22, J15, Z13
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7529
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Nick
Drydakis
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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (2), 192-215)
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J10, J30, J24
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7528
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Karsten
Albæk
Søren
Leth-Petersen
Daniel
le Maire
Torben
Tranæs
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Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?
Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 512-540)
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H56, K42, J24
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7526
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Sanne
Boschman
Maarten
van Ham
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Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Preference Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model
The selective inflow and outflow of residents by ethnicity is the main mechanism behind ethnic residential segregation. Many studies have found that ethnic minorities are more likely than others to ...
(published as 'Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Effects Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model' in: Environment and Planning A, 2015, 47(5), 1155-1174)
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J15, R23
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7525
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Rory
Coulter
Maarten
van Ham
Allan
M.
Findlay
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New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space
While researchers are increasingly reconceptualising international migration, less interest is being shown in rethinking the geographies of short-distance residential mobility and immobility. ...
(published as 'Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space' in: Progress in Human Geography, 2016, 40 (3), 352-374)
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J61, R23
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7523
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Sotiris
Georganas
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Peer Pressure and Productivity: The Role of Observing and Being Observed
Peer effects arise in situations where workers observe each other's work activity. In this paper we disentangle the effect of observing a peer from that of being observed by a peer, by setting up a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 223-232.)
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D03, J24, M52, M59
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7520
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Miles
Corak
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Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility
Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child’s opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2013, 27 (3), 79-102)
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D31, D63, J62
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7519
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Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship
We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2015, 16 (5) 482-507)
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L83, J4, J22, L25, C29
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7518
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Nadia
S
Karamcheva
Geoffrey
Sanzenbacher
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Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?
In light of the declining pension coverage of low-income workers, policy makers have discussed requiring all employers to offer individual retirement accounts, similar to defined contribution plans. ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2014, 13 (4), 439-459)
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J08, J26, J32
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7516
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Christine
Binzel
Dietmar
Fehr
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Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects – friend versus stranger – and by the anonymity of the dictator. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121(2), 214-217)
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C93, D64, L14, O12
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7515
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Dan
Anderberg
Helmut
Rainer
Jonathan
Wadsworth
Tanya
Wilson
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Unemployment and Domestic Violence: Theory and Evidence
Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (597), 1947-1979)
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J12, D19
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7514
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Martin
Nybom
Jan
Stuhler
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Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility
We examine how intergenerational income mobility responds to structural changes in a simple theoretical model of intergenerational transmission, deviating from the existing literature by explicitly ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (8), 2531–2570)
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J62, D31
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7513
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees
In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees' labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on ...
(published as 'The Effect of Firms' Phased Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of Their Employees' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69(5), 1216-1248)
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J14, J26, C21
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7512
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Susan
L.
Averett
Sabrina
Terrizzi
Yang
Wang
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The Effect of Sorority Membership on Eating Disorders and Body Mass Index
Eating disorders affect 12-25% of college women. Previous research established a positive correlation between sorority membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between ...
(published in: Health economics, 2017, 26(7), 875-891.)
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I12, I18
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7511
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Wafa
Hakim
Orman
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After the Farm Crisis: Religiosity in the Rural United States
The farm crisis in the United States in the 1980s had profound effects on rural, agricultural regions of the country, but almost no impact on urban and suburban areas. I use a ...
(published as 'Religiosity and Financial Crises in the United States' in: Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion, 2019, 58 (1), 20-46)
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J22, Q12, Z12
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7510
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Jaap
Nieuwenhuis
Pieter
Hooimeijer
Maarten
van Ham
Wim
Meeus
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Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences
In the neighbourhood effects literature, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (10), 2285-2304)
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I24, J15, R23
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7509
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data
Using a differences-in-differences approach and controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity, we evaluate the impact of a 1999 law that granted all workers with children younger than 7 years ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407 )
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C23, C25, C33, J16, J22, J62
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7508
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Karina
Doorley
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Putting Structure on the RD Design: Social Transfers and Youth Inactivity in France
Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatment effects. Yet their use for policy design is often limited by the difficulty in extrapolating on ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1032-1059.)
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C52, H31, J22
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7506
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Michal
Myck
Anna
Kurowska
Micha?
Kundera
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Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-offs: Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives
Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to ...
(published in: Baltic Journal of Economics, 2013, 13 (2), 61-85 )
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J22, J13, J18
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7504
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Bridget
Daldy
Jacques
Poot
Matthew
Roskruge
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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2013, 16 (1), 137-154)
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F22, J01, J71
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7502
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Gilbert
Cette
Valérie
Chouard
Gregory
Verdugo
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Minimum Wage and the Average Wage in France: A Circular Relationship?
This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when intended to preserve the purchasing power of the minimum wage as when intended to ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (3), 1832-1839)
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E24, J31, J58
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7501
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Almudena
Sevilla
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Low-Skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-Educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-Use Data
This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(3), 509-539)
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J01, J13, J61
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7500
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Alessandro
Fedele
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!
In this paper we study optimal choices of self-selection into politics and commitment once in office on the part of citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2016, 17 (2), 127 - 156)
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P16, J45, J24, J32
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7498
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Werner
Eichhorst
J. Timo
Weishaupt
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Mit Neo-Korporatismus durch die Krise? Die Rolle des Sozialen Dialogs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Dieser Artikel untersucht die Rolle der Sozialpartner bei der Bewältigung der Wirtschaftskrise 2008/09 in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Die Fallstudien zeigen, dass zu Beginn der Krise ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 2013, 59 (3), 313-335)
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J52, J53, J58
|
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7497
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James
T.
Bang
Aniruddha
Mitra
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Financial Liberalization and Remittances: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on remittances to 84 countries over five-year intervals from 1990-2005 based on the difference-GMM method of Arellano and Bond (1991). ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2015, 24(8), 1077-1102)
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F22, O15, P48
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7496
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Jacobus
de Hoop
Furio
C.
Rosati
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Cash Transfers and Child Labour
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on ...
(published in: World Bank Reserach Observer, 2014, 29 (2), 202-234)
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I28, I38, O20
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