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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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7035
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Alexander
Muravyev
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal ...
(published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.)
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E24, J21, J42, O17, P20
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7034
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Daniel
I.
Rees
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (6), 659-671)
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I10, J30
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7033
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Jan-Emmanuel
De Neve
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19953-19958)
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I13, I31, J31
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7032
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25(1), 48–60)
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D70, D71, D72
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7031
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105)
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D70, D72, D74, D78
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7030
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Ernst
Fehr
Holger
Herz
Tom
Wilkening
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The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59)
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C92, D83, D23
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7028
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Erwin
R.
Tiongson
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Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (3), 531-543)
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J61, O15, R23
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7027
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Gilles
Duranton
Laurent
Gobillon
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589)
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R14, R21, R31
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7026
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Suqin
Ge
Dennis
T.
Yang
Junsen
Zhang
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 181 - 209)
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E21, J11, J13
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7025
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Joop
Hartog
Michael
Sattinger
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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 50-56)
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J31, J24, C78, C51
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7024
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Daniel
Sgroi
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), 255-278)
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I23, C11, O30
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7023
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Gil
S.
Epstein
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive ...
(published in: Economics and Business Letters, 2012, 1(4), 21-32)
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D2, D72, J2
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7022
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Rafael
Gralla
Kornelius
Kraft
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Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms
This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in ...
(published in: Labour, 2018, 32 (1), 93-111)
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J53, J63, C23, M54
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7020
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 14, 259-275)
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F22, F52, F54, F59, J15, J16, Z10
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7019
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Alfonso
Miranda
Yu
Zhu
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English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap
We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. We show that the wage gap is ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 38-41)
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J15, J61
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7017
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Stefanie
Schurer
Daniel
Kühnle
Anthony
Scott
Terence
Chai
Cheng
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One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors
Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender-pay gaps among general practitioners (GPs) are the result of women's larger ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2016, 55(3), 385-414 )
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J24
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7015
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Todd
Pugatch
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Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa
As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:8)
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I25, J24, J31, O12
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7014
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Tony
Atkinson
Peter
G.
Backus
John
Micklewright
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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F1-F23)
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D12, D31, D64, L31
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7013
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Sylvie
Blasco
Barbara
Pertold-Gebicka
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Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 12-24)
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C21, J63, J68
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7012
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R?ta
Ubarevi?ien?
Donatas
Burneika
Maarten
van Ham
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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is ...
(published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, 46 (2), 217 - 242)
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D72, J15, R11, R14, R23
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7010
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Petter
Lundborg
Johan
Vikström
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The Economics of Grief
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1794 - 1832)
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I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
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7009
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Alexander
Weiss
James
E.
King
Miho
Inoue-Murayama
Tetsuro
Matsuzawa
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19949-19952)
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I31
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7008
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Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes
This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:3)
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C13, C26, I14
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7007
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Patricia
Apps
Jan
Kabátek
Ray
Rees
Arthur
van Soest
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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
This paper introduces a static structural model of hours of market labor supply, time spent on child care and other domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 51, 1641-1677)
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J22, J13, H24
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7006
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Julian
V.
Johnsen
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
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Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking and Birth Outcomes
An important externality of smoking is the harm it might cause to those who do not smoke. This paper examines the impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 72-93)
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D62, J13, I38
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7005
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Cecilia
Machado
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Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap
Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation, those assumptions are specially tenuous because of high female ...
(published as 'Unobserved selection heterogeneity and the gender wage gap' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (7), 1348 - 1366)
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J31, J16, J24
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7004
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview
This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 24, 453-469)
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F22, F55, J61
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7002
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Robert
G.
Valletta
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House Lock and Structural Unemployment
A recent decline in geographic mobility in the United States may have been caused in part by falling house prices, through the "lock in" effects of financial constraints faced by households whose ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 86–97)
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J6, R31
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7001
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Dina
Shatnawi
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Movin' on Up: Hierarchical Occupational Segmentation and Gender Wage Gaps
Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12(3), 315-338.)
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J71
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7000
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Peter
Arcidiacono
Esteban
Aucejo
Patrick
Coate
V. Joseph
Hotz
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Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209
Proposition 209 banned using racial preferences in admissions at California's public colleges. We analyze unique data for all applicants and enrollees within the University of California (UC) system ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3, 7 (2014))
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I23, J15
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6998
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Ernesto
Reuben
Matthew
Stephenson
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Nobody Likes a Rat: On the Willingness and Consequences of Reporting Lies
We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 384-391)
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D03, K42, M42, M14, C92
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6997
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Alison
L.
Booth
Pamela
Katic
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Cognitive Skills, Gender and Risk Preferences
In this paper we utilise data from a unique new birth-cohort study to see how the risk preferences of young people are affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (284),19-30)
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D01, D80, J16, J24
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6994
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1), 331-354)
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J17, R41, I18, K32, L62, D12, D61, H40
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6992
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Mario
Centeno
Alvaro
A.
Novo
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Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
The fact that unemployed workers have different abilities to smooth consumption entails heterogeneous responses to extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(2), 185–207)
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J65, J64, J22
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6990
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Jihui
Susan
Chen
Qihong
Liu
Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
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Where Do New Ph.D. Economists Go? Evidence from Recent Initial Job Placements
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34, 312 - 338)
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A11, A23, J44
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6989
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Margherita
Fort
Francesco
Manaresi
Serena
Trucchi
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Banks Information Policies, Financial Literacy and Household Wealth
We investigate the causal effect of financial literacy on financial assets, exploiting banks information policies for identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2016, 31 (88), 743-782 )
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D14, G11
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6988
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904
This article re-examines the food consumption of working class households in 1904 and compares the nutritional content of these diets with modern measures of adequacy. We find a fairly steep gradient ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (1), 101-122)
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I14, I32, N34
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6987
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Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Alike in Many Ways: Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations of Brothers' Earnings
We model the correlations of brothers' life-cycle earnings separating for the first time the effect of paternal earnings from additional residual sibling effects. We identify the two effects by ...
(revised version circulated as IZA DP 10761)
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D31, J62
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6986
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Nina
Drange
Tarjei
Havnes
Astrid
M. J.
Sandsør
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Kindergarten for All: Long Run Effects of a Universal Intervention
Theory and evidence point towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children. At the same time, disadvantaged families often sort out of existing programs. To ...
(published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 164-181)
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J13, H40, I28
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6985
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Stephane
Mahuteau
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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The Effect of Overskilling Dynamics on Wages
We use a random effects dynamic probit model to estimate the effect of overskilling dynamics on wages. We find that overskilling mismatch is common and more likely among those who have been ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2013, 21 (3), 281-303)
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J24, J31
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6984
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Annalisa
Cristini
Tor
Eriksson
Dario
Pozzoli
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High-Performance Management Practices and Employee Outcomes in Denmark
High-performance work practices are frequently considered to have positive effects on corporate performance, but what do they do for employees? After assessing the correlation between organizational ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (3), 232-266)
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C33, J41, J53, L20
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6983
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Luca
Paolo
Merlino
Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
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Assortative Matching and Gender
Exploiting the richness of the Danish register data on individuals and companies, we are able to provide an overall assessment of the assortative matching patterns arising in the period 1996-2005 ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (4), 671-709.)
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J16, J24, J62
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6982
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Francisco
Campos-Ortiz
Louis
Putterman
T.K.
Ahn
Loukas
Balafoutas
Mongoljin
Batsaikhan
Matthias
Sutter
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Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries – Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States. Our main results are that the security of property ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 115-124.)
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C91, C92, D03, H41, P14
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6980
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Christian
Raschke
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The Impact of the German Child Benefit on Child Well-Being
The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to ...
(published as 'The Impact of the German Child Benefit on Household Expenditures and Consumption' in: German Economic Review, 2016, 17 (4), 438-477)
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I38, D12, H31
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6978
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Ainara
González de San Román
Sara
de la Rica
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Gender Gaps in Spain: Family Issues and the Career Development of College Educated Men and Women
Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade-offs between family and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the ...
(published as 'Gender Gaps in Spain: The Role of Children in Career Development' in: Boeri, Patacchini and Peri (eds), Unexplored Dimensions of Discrimination, Oxford University Press 2015)
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J12, J2, J3
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6976
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Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
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Leadership at School: Does the Gender of Siblings Matter?
Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 51-64)
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J24
|
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6975
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Volker
Grossmann
Wilhelm
Kohler
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation: Cause or Effect?
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first ...
(published in: Chiswick, Barry R. and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1B, Elsevier, North-Holland, Ch. 18, 2015)
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F1, F2, F4
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6974
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Trong-Ha
Nguyen
Amy
Y.C.
Liu
Alison
L.
Booth
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Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Vietnam
In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (8), 1177–1191)
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J14, J22, J26
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6973
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
Mariola
Pytlikova
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Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?
Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. ...
(revised version published as 'Labor Diversity and Firm Productivity' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 144 -179)
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J15, J16, J24, J61, J81, L20
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6972
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
Mariola
Pytlikova
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The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (2), 303-364)
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J15, J16, J24, J61, J82, O32
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