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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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15970
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Vincenzo
Bove
Jessica
Di Salvatore
Roberto
Nistico
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Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighbourhood
We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 66 (4), 671 - 697)
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F13, F14, F51, F52, K42
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15968
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Judite
Goncalves
Roxanne
Merenda
João
Pereira dos Santos
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Not So Sweet: Impacts of a Soda Tax on Producers
Portugal introduced a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax in 2017. This study uses unique administrative accounting data for all SSB producers/importers in Portugal, and an event study design with ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2024, 31, 1388–1412 )
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H25, H51, I18
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15967
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Long COVID in the United States
Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing consequences of long COVID. Using data collected from nearly half a million ...
(published in: Plos One, 2023, 18 (11), e0292672 )
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I1, I31
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15966
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Nicolas
Büttner
Michael
Grimm
Isabel
Günther
Kenneth
Harttgen
Stephan
Klasen
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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic ...
(published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1585–1611.)
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D13, J11, J13, J22, O12
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15963
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Achim
Ahrens
Christian
B.
Hansen
Mark
E
Schaffer
Thomas
Wiemann
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ddml: Double/Debiased Machine Learning in Stata
We introduce the package ddml for Double/Debiased Machine Learning (DDML) in Stata. Estimators of causal parameters for five different econometric models are supported, allowing for flexible ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 3-45. )
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C14, C21, C87
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15962
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Catherine
Fuss
Mark
Vancauteren
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Does Offshoring Shape Labor Market Imperfections? A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and Dutch Firms
We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm level in Belgium and the Netherlands. Wage-markup pricing stemming from ...
(substantially revised version forthcoming as 'Offshoring and labor market power: Comparing Belgian and Dutch firms' in: Industrial Relations)
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F14, F16, J42, J50
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15961
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Joan
Costa-Font
Cristina
Vilaplana-Prieto
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Health System Trust and Compliance with COVID-19 Restrictions
We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with ...
(published ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101235)
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I13, Z1
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15960
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Giuseppe
Attanasi
Claire
Rimbaud
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Guilt Aversion in (New) Games: Does Partners' Payoff Vulnerability Matter?
We investigate whether a player's guilt aversion is modulated by the co-players' vulnerability. To this goal, we introduce new variations of a three-player Trust game in which we manipulate payoff ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 690-717 )
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C72, C91, D91
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15958
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Fabienne
Helfer
Volker
Grossmann
Aderonke
Osikominu
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How Does Immigration Affect Housing Costs in Switzerland?
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labour markets ("Mobilité ...
(published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statisticsm 2023, 159, 5)
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F22, O18, R31
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15957
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Damiano
Pregaldini
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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How Middle-Skilled Workers Adjust to Immigration: The Role of Occupational Skill Specificity
Our study explores the effects of immigration on the employment of native middle-skilled workers, focusing on how this effect varies with the specificity of their occupational skill bundles. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45 (8), 1607–16254)
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J15, J24, J62
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15956
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
Krystina
Titz
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Works Councils as Gatekeepers: Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction
This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102563)
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M5, J83, J28
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15953
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Ian
Smith
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Do International Tourist Arrivals Change Residents' Attitudes Towards Immigration? A Longitudinal Study of 28 European Countries
Can international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data ...
(published in: Tourism Economics, 2024, 30 (1), 104-131)
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J61, L83
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15952
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Elise
Aerts
Ive
Marx
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income
Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2025, 54 (2), 351-373)
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D31, H55, I38, C81
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15951
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Brigham
Walker
Janna
Wisniewski
Sarah
Tinkler
Miron
Stano
Rajiv
Sharma
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Foreign Physicians: Discriminatory Patient Preferences and Doctor Availability
Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106813)
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I11, C93, J7
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15948
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Farzana
Afridi
Abhishek
Arora
Diva
Dhar
Kanika
Mahajan
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Women's Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market
While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025)
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J12, J16, J24
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15947
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Sandro
Provenzano
Sefi
Roth
Lutz
Sager
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Air Pollution and Respiratory Infectious Diseases
Recent research suggests that short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with an elevated prevalence of respiratory infectious disease. We examine the relationship between the air quality ...
(published in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024, 87, 1127–1139 )
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I18, Q51, Q53
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15946
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Wim
Naudé
Ernesto
Amorós
Tilman
Brück
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State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence
This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the existing literature, we formulate two hypotheses: (1) state-based conflict has a ...
(published in: W. Naudé and B. Power, Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar, 2024, 106–140 )
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L26, M13, J23, N40, O11, O17
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15945
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Dan-Olof
Rooth
Anders
Stenberg
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Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors
This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors is determined based on GPA. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 133–173)
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I21, J24
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15943
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Le
Wen
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch: A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education
In this paper we systematically evaluate the impact of using the alternative methods conventionally used in the international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (2), 169–194.)
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J24, J31
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15941
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Piet
Daas
Wolter
Hassink
Bart
Klijs
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On the Validity of Using Webpage Texts to Identify the Target Population of a Survey: An Application to Detect Online Platforms
A statistical classification model was developed to identify online platform organizations based on the texts on their website. The model was subsequently used to identify all (potential) platform ...
(published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2024, 40 (1), 190-211)
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C81, C83, D20, D83, L20
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15940
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Nicolas
Pazos
Marta
Favara
Alan
Sanchez
Douglas
Scott
Jere
R.
Behrman
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Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Peru
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, harming communities strongly tied to agricultural production, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101407)
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J24, Q54, I24, I14
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15939
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Matthias
Rodemeier
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Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets
What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of environmental protection? I study this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery ...
(This version: March 2024.)
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D61, D82, H21, Q51, Q58
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15938
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Santosh
Kumar Gautam
Bernard
Nahlen
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Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India
Using nationally representative data, we estimate intergenerational persistence in health in India. Results from the instrumental variable method show that children of anemic mothers are more likely ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 224, ^p111023)
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I10, I14, O15
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15936
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Giorgio
Brunello
Désirée
Rückert
Christoph T.
Weiss
Patricia
Wruuck
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Advanced Digital Technologies and Investment in Employee Training: Complements or Substitutes?
Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, we show that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee after adopting advanced digital technologies (ADT). We ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital, 2025)
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D24, J24
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15935
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Lisa
Bellmann
Lutz
Bellmann
Olaf
Hübler
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Labour Mobility in German Establishments during the COVID-19 Crisis: Panel Data Analyses with Special Reference to Short-Time Work and Working from Home
Using 21 waves of German high-frequency establishment panel data collected during the COVID-19 crisis, we investigate the effects of short-time work (STW) and working from home (WFH) on hiring, ...
(revised version published as 'Labour mobility, short-time work and working from home: establishments' behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45(6), 1262-1278)
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C23, J21, J23, J58, J63
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15934
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Zhuoer
Lin
Mingqi
Fu
Xi
Chen
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Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data
Cognitive misperception contributed to poor decision-making; yet their impact on health-related decisions is less known. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease ...
(published as 'Self-perceived memory is negatively associated with chronic disease awareness: Evidence from blood biomarker data' in: SSM - Population Health, 2023, 22, 101361)
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I12, J14, D91, I18
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15933
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Ali
Fakih
Malak
El Baba
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The Decision to Emigrate in Six MENA Countries: The Role of Post-Revolutionary Stress
This paper studies the determinants of emigration from six Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in light of the Arab Spring of 2011. The aim is to determine if the economically depressing ...
(published in: International Migration, 2023, 61 (4), 201-220)
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C25, J60, O15
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15932
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Maciej
Albinowski
Iga
Magda
Agata
Rozszczypała
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The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe
We investigate the role of education in creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities across the European Union. We use the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions ...
(published online in: Education Economics, 29 September 2023)
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I26, I14, C21
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15930
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Hannah
Illing
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Crossing Borders: Labor Market Effects of European Integration
This paper investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access to the German labor market. Exploiting the fact that the reform specifically impacted the Czech and German border ...
(This is an updated version of IZA DP 15930, first published in February 2023. The new version includes an update of the matching algorithm and additional robustness checks.)
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J61, J15, R23
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15929
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Fortuna
Casoria
Fabio
Galeotti
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Trust and Social Preferences in Times of Acute Health Crisis
We combined a natural experiment (the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020) with the tools of laboratory experiments to study whether and how an unprecedented shock on social interactions (the ...
(revised version published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 154, 5-50 )
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C92, K1, I18
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15928
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Pilar
Garcia-Gomez
Pierre
Koning
Owen
O'Donnell
Carlos
Riumallo
Herl
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Selective Exercise of Discretion in Disability Insurance Awards
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2025, 44 (3), 816-835)
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D73, H42, H55
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15927
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Nick
Drydakis
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Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Academic Performance
During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (7), 1362-1381.)
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E24, J6, I24, J13
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15925
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Dilek
Sevim
Victoria
Baranov
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Joanna
Maselko
Pietro
Biroli
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Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention
We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401)
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D1, I1, J1, O2
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15924
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Wim
Naudé
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Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?
The possibility that artificial extraterrestrial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity is neglected. It is also the case in economics, where both AI existential risks and the potential ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
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O40, O33, D01, D64
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15922
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Gustavo
J.
Canavire Bacarreza
Lyliana
Gayoso
de Ervin
Juan
José
Galeano
Juan
Pablo
Baquero
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Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay
The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have achieved over the past few decades. Therefore, policy makers must understand the ...
(published in: Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico, 2023, 21 (39), 77 - 108)
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D6, Q4, I3, P36
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15921
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Gustavo
J.
Canavire Bacarreza
Fernando
Rios-Avila
Flavia
Sacco-Capurro
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Recovering Income Distribution in the Presence of Interval-Censored Data
This paper proposes a method to analyze interval-censored data, using multiple imputation based on a heteroskedastic interval regression approach. The proposed model aims to obtain a synthetic data ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1039 - 1060)
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C150, C340, J3
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15920
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Liang
Choon
Wang
Michael
Vlassopoulos
Asadul
Islam
Hashibul
Hassan
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Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
The Covid-19 pandemic caused prolonged school closures worldwide. Children in resource- poor settings were particularly affected given their limited access to remedial distance learning opportunities ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 562–601)
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C93, I21, I24
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15916
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Hai-Anh
H
Dang
Shatakshee
Dhongde
Minh
N.N.
Do
Cuong Viet
Nguyen
Obert
Pimhidzai
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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2025, 29 (4), 2063-2075)
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C15, D31, I31, O10, O57
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15913
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Anna
Godøy
Rannveig
Kaldager
Hart
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Bjørn-Atle
Reme
Jonathan
Wörn
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Work Loss and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We study the impact of work loss on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining data on work loss and health care consultations from comprehensive individual-level register data, we define ...
(published in: BMC Public Health, 2023, 23, 1447)
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I12, I14, I18, J65
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15911
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Cynthia
Bansak
Eva
Dziadula
Madeline
Zavodny
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The Value of a Green Card in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Tale of Chain Migration?
This study examines the impact of having a clear path to lawful permanent resident status, or a "green card," and naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102062)
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J12, J15, K37
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15910
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Andrea
Bassanini
Cyprien
Batut
Eve
Caroli
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Labor Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on average wages and decompose it into its effects on new hires and incumbents, where incumbents are defined as individuals who were already ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102338.)
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J31, J42, L41
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15908
|
Oded
Stark
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Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis
Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen ...
(published as 'An Integrated Theory of Relative Deprivation and Risk-Laden Migration' in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Vol. 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2024, 165–175)
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D81, D91, F22, J61
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15907
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Damian
Clarke
Daniel
Pailañir
Susan
Athey
Guido
W.
Imbens
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Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation
In this paper, we describe a computational implementation of the Synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID) estimator of Arkhangelsky et al. (2021) for Stata. Synthetic difference-in-differences can ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (4), 557-598)
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C13, C87, C23, C52, C63
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15905
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using ...
(forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook of Income Distribution and Economic Growth)
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J60, J64, J68
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15904
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Kelsey
J.
O'Connor
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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119. )
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I31, I38, D60, O10, Q53, Z13
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15902
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Maria
Esther
Oswald-Egg
Michael
Siegenthaler
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Train Drain? Access to Foreign Workers and Firms' Provision of Training
Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102436)
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J24, J63, M53
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15899
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Asadul
Islam
Gita
Kusnadi
Jahen
Rezki
Armand
Sim
Giovanni
van Empel
Michael
Vlassopoulos
Yves
Zenou
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Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia
In settings where resistance and rampant misinformation against vaccines exist, the prospect of containing infectious diseases remains a challenge. Can delivery of information regarding the benefits ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104683)
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I1, I12, I18, I20, I3
|
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15898
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Gabriele
Cardullo
Maurizio
Conti
Andrea
Ricci
Sergio
Scicchitano
Giovanni
Sulis
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On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations
We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes - that ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (3), 568 - 590)
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J50, J53, J59, N00
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15897
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Mark
A.
Andor
Thomas
K.
Bauer
Jana
Eßer
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
Lukas
Tomberg
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Who Gets Vaccinated? Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Individual Behavior in Pandemics
This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 87 (3), 562-585)
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D91, H0, I12, I18
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15895
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Shintaro
Yamaguchi
Hirotake
Ito
Makiko
Nakamuro
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Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation
We estimate month-of-birth effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as factors relevant to skill formation. Our estimates indicate that younger students in a given grade cohort have ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102392)
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I20, I24, J24
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