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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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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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6971
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Patricia
Apps
Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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The Impact of Pre-school on Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence from a Recent English Cohort
This paper investigates the relationship between attendance at nursery school and children's outcomes in adolescence. In particular, we are interested in child cognitive development at ages 11, 14 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 183-199)
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J13, I21
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6970
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Jonas
Maibom
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation
We analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 541 - 570)
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J64, J68
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6968
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Yuling
Cui
Daehoon
Nahm
Massimiliano
Tani
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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China: Results from a Joint Estimation
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking ...
(short version published in: Procedia Economics and Finance, 2012, 1, 98-107)
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C35, J21, J61
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6967
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Claudio
Lucifora
Marco
Tonello
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Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program
We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not ...
(published as: "Cheating and social interactions. Evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 115, 2015, 45–66)
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C31, D62, I21
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6966
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Ekrame
Boubtane
Dramane
Coulibaly
Christophe
Rault
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 399-420)
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E20, F22, J61
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6965
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Astrid
Würtz
Rasmussen
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (4), 829-857 )
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D13, I12, I21, J12, J13
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6964
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Dennis
T.
Yang
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Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26 (4), 125–146.)
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E21, O16, F32
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6963
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Daniel
Lau
Dario
Pozzoli
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16 (2), 577-617.)
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I12, I20, J18, C33, C35
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6962
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Mette
Lausten
Dario
Pozzoli
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Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (2), 407-425)
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I12, J13
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6961
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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Trust and Cheating
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1703 - 1738)
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A1, A12, D1, O15, Z1
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6960
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Christiana
E.
Hilmer
Michael
J.
Hilmer
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists: How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, ...
(revised version published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 82(2), 430–452)
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J31, J44
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6959
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María
Laura
Alzúa
Guillermo
Cruces
Laura
Ripani
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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America
This study looks at the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the adult labor supply in developing countries. The analysis builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1255-1284)
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J08, J22, I38
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6958
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Nicole
Schneeweis
Vegard
Skirbekk
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using ...
(published as 'Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?' in: Demography, 2014, 51 (2), 619-643)
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I21, J14
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6957
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Santiago
Budría
Pablo
Swedberg
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The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables ...
(published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2015, 23 (67), 63-91)
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F22, J24, J61
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6956
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Anita
Ratcliffe
Karl
Taylor
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Who Cares about Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (3), 826-845)
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J26, D12
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6955
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Raymond
Montizaan
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
Thomas
Dohmen
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Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights
We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in ...
(published as 'The Impact of Negatively Reciprocal Inclinations on Worker Behavior: Evidence from a Retrenchment of Pension Rights' in: Management Science, 2016, 62(3), 668-681)
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D63, J2
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6953
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Claire L.
Adida
David
D.
Laitin
Marie-Anne
Valfort
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Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium
We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086)
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C90, D03, J15, J71, Z12
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6952
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Veronica
Grembi
Tommaso
Nannicini
Ugo
Troiano
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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing ...
(published as 'Do Fiscal Rules Matter?' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (3), 1-30)
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C21, C23, H62, H72, H77
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6951
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Andriana
Bellou
Rachana
Bhatt
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Reducing Underage Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Evidence from the Introduction of Vertical Identification Cards
From 1994-2009, forty-three states changed the design of their driver's license/state identification cards in an effort to reduce underage access to and consumption of alcohol and tobacco. In these ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (2), 353-366)
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I1, J1
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6950
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014, 28 (2), 284 - 311)
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J64, J65, J68
|
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6948
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Christian
Belzil
Michael
L.
Bognanno
François
Poinas
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Promotion Determinants in Corporate Hierarchies: An Examination of Fast Tracks and Functional Area
This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, 48), 2018)
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C33, M5, M51
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6947
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Christopher
Dawson
Andrew
Henley
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Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53(2), 501-515)
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D84, J13, M13
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