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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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15795
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Huasheng
Xiang
Viviana
Albani
Louis
Goffe
Nasima
Akhter
Amelia
Lake
Heather
Brown
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Does Using Planning Policy to Restrict Fast Food Outlets Reduce Inequalities in Childhood Overweight and Obesity?
Half of local governments in England use planning policy to promote a healthier environment. In 2015, Gateshead Council in the North-East of England was the first local authority to ban planning ...
(published as 'Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England: a quasi-experimental analysis' in: Obesity, 2024, 32 (12), 2345-2353)
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I18, J13, I14
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15793
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Claudia
Stier
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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, 869-889.)
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L26, C14
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15792
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Aflatun
Kaeser
Massimiliano
Tani
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Do Immigrants Ever Oppose Immigration?
This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of ...
(publishled in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 80, 102460)
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D1, D89, D90, F22, J15
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15790
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Alex
Bryson
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Wellbeing Rankings
Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 countries, the 50 states of the United States and the District of Colombia on ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2024, 171, 513–565 )
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I31, O57
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15789
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Julia
Bredtmann
Sebastian
Otten
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Culture and the Labor Supply of Female Immigrants
This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (2), 282-300)
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J16, J22, J61
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15787
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Tomasz
Gajderowicz
Maciej
Jakubowski
Harry
Anthony
Patrinos
Sylwia
Wrona
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Capturing the Educational and Economic Impacts of School Closures in Poland
The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks ...
(published as 'Poland: Education During and After COVID-19 Pandemic and Educational Reforms' in: Crato, N., Patrinos, H.A. (eds), Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19. Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices. Springer, Cham, 2025, 121–133 (without H. A. Patrinos and S. Wrona).)
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I21, I24
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15786
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Christina
Gathmann
Julio
Garbers
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Citizenship and Integration
Several European countries have reformed their citizenship policies over the past decades. There is much to learn from their experience of how citizenship works; for whom it works; and what rules and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102343)
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J15, J2, J31, J61, K37
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15779
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Fernando
Alexandre
Miguel
Chaves
Miguel
Portela
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Investment Grants and Firms' Productivity: How Effective Is a Grant Booster Shot?
This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression Discontinuity Design strategy using a very rich firm-level administrative ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 1601–1641)
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D22, H25, L25, L52
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15777
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Dora
Gicheva
Julie
Edmunds
Marie
C.
Hull
Beth
Thrift
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Getting Students to Stick Around: The Effects of Completing an Introductory Course on Persistence for Community College Students
This paper studies the impacts of withdrawing from and failing a course, relative to successful completion, on persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy,2025, 43 (3), 427-451)
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I21, I23
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15774
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Farzana
Afridi
Amrita
Dhillon
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Social Networks and the Labour Market
This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks ...
(published online in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 16 September 2022)
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J16, J41, J31, D82, D83, O12, O15
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15772
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Michele
Battisti
Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers
This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1551–1594)
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J23, J24, O33
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15771
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
W.
Kip
Viscusi
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Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs
The impact and economic merits of President Biden's Executive Order 13985 on equity depend on how the executive order is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023, 14 (1), 8-34)
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D61, D63, I18
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15770
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Kevin
Pineda-Hernández
François
Rycx
Mélanie
Volral
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Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 01 February 2025)
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J15, J16, J21, J24, J31, J61
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15766
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Peng
Nie
Xu
Peng
Tianyuan
Luo
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Internet Use and Fertility Behavior among Reproductive-Age Women in China
Using longitudinal data from the 2014–2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 77, 101903)
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D13, D91, J13, J16, R20
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15763
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Thomas
Dohmen
Simone
Quercia
Jana
Willrodt
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On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67, 193–214. )
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D91, C91, D81, D01
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15762
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Erling
Barth
Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment ...
(forthcoming in: Economica)
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D22, D24, F14, L11, L60
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15760
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Pavel
Chakraborty
Rahul
Singh
Vidhya
Soundararajan
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Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (4), 741–771, )
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F14, F16, O17, O47, F66
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15758
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Gopi
Shah
Goda
Matthew
R.
Levy
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
Aaron
Sojourner
Joshua
Tasoff
Jiusi
Xiao
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Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how a web-based retirement saving calculator affects workers' retirement-savings decisions. In both conditions, the calculator projects workers' ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 561-573)
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D14, G53, J32
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15755
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Mason
Ameri
Douglas
L.
Kruse
So
Ri
Park
Yana
van der Meulen
Rodgers
Lisa
Schur
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Telework during the Pandemic: Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for people with disabilities by increasing employer acceptance of telework, but this ...
(published in: Disability and Health Journal, 2023, 16 (2), 101406)
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J14, J22, J71
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15753
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Kaveh
Majlesi
Silvia
Prina
Paul
Sullivan
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Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes
The effect of negative shifts in public opinion on the economic lives of minorities is unknown. We study the role of racial bias in the U.S. labor market by investigating sudden changes in public ...
(published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2024, 8, 1493–1505 )
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D70, D91, J15, P16
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15752
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Maciej
Albinowski
Piotr
Lewandowski
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The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102481)
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J24, O33, J23
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15751
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Masato
Oikawa
Ryuichi
Tanaka
Shun-ichiro
Bessho
Akira
Kawamura
Haruko
Noguchi
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Do Class Closures Affect Students' Achievements? Heterogeneous Effects of Students' Socioeconomic Backgrounds
This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol.78, Article 101387, December (2025))
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I20, I24
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15749
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Geghetsik
Afunts
Štepán
Jurajda
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Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage
There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational ...
(published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (4), 1097–1116.)
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J12
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15748
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Rais
Kamis
Jessica
Pan
Kelvin
Seah
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Do College Admissions Criteria Matter? Evidence from Discretionary vs. Grade-Based Admission Policies
This paper examines the implications of college admissions criteria on students' academic and non-academic performance in university and their labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique feature of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102347)
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I21, I23, J31
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15744
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V. K.
Chetty
James
J.
Heckman
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Internal Adjustment Costs of Firm-Specific Factors and the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm
This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by ...
(published in: Kumbhakar, S.C., Sickles, R.C., Wang, H.J. (eds), Advances in Applied Econometrics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Springer, Cham, 2024, 55, 239 - 258 )
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D21, L11, E13
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15742
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Plamen
Nikolov
Md Shahadath
Hossain
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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617)
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H55, J24, I31, O12, J26, J14, H75
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15741
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Joan
Costa-Font
Sarah
Flčche
Ricardo
Pagan
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The Labour Market Returns to Sleep
The proportion of people sleeping less than the daily-recommended hours has increased. Yet, we know little about the labour market returns to sleep. We use longitudinal data from Germany and exploit ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 93, 102840)
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I18, J12, J13
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15739
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Lea-Rachel
Kosnik
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Aging in Style: Does How We Write Matter?
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine ...
(published as 'Aging in style: Seniority and sentiment in scholarly writing' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 90 (4), 1136-1164)
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B41, A14
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15737
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Alexandros
Theloudis
Jorge
Velilla
Pierre-André
Chiappori
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labor Supply
The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (665), 354-386)
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D12, D13, D15, J22, J31
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15736
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Martin
Guzi
Martin
Kahanec
Lucia
Mýtna
Kureková
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The Impact of Immigration and Integration Policies On Immigrant-Native Labor Market Hierarchies
Across European Union (EU) labor markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labor market outcomes, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (16), 4169–4187)
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J15, J18, J61, K37
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15732
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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The Broken Chain: Evidence against Emotionally Driven Upstream Indirect Reciprocity
Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document that subjects indeed ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 136, 542-558)
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D91, C91, D03
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15731
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Fabio
Montobbio
Jacopo
Staccioli
Maria
Enrica
Virgillito
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (5), 1622-1655)
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O33
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15730
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Andreas
Steinmayr
Manuel
Rossi
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Vaccine-Skeptic Physicians and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
What is the role of general practitioners (GPs) in supporting or hindering public health efforts? We investigate the influence of vaccine-skeptic GPs on their patients' decisions to get a COVID-19 ...
(published as 'Vaccine-skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (3), 509-525)
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I12, I18
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15728
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Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Natalia
Nollenberger
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High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records
Increases in mental health problems among adolescents have been concurrent with increased use of digital media, with bigger changes among girls after the mid-2010s. This study exploits exogenous ...
(This version: May 2023)
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J13, J16, I10, I12, I18, H31, L86
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15724
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Grace
McCormack
Daniel
Prinz
Sandor
Sovago
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Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 235, 107036)
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G34, J2, J3, M51
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15722
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Gianluca
Orefice
Hillel
Rapoport
Gianluca
Santoni
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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity.
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103443)
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F14, F16, F22, O47
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15719
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Alex
Hollingsworth
Melissa
A.
Thomasson
Krzysztof
Karbownik
Anthony
Wray
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The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality
The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114(7), 2201-2238.)
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I14, J13, N32
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15717
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Simon
Jäger
Jörg
Heining
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How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on ...
(revise and resubmit: American Economic Review)
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J20, J30, J63
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15716
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Theodor
Vladasel
Simon
C.
Parker
Randolph
Sloof
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises
Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2024, 33 (3), 630 - 651)
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D22, J33, L21, L31
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15715
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Claudia
Senik
Andrew
E.
Clark
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
Anthony
Lepinteur
Carsten
Schröder
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Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1), Article 8)
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I31, M5
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15714
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Christian
Merkl
Timo
Sauerbier
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Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment
Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) ...
(revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2024, 72, 393-440)
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E24, E00, E60
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15713
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Wim
Naudé
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The Future Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Mythical Agents, a Singleton and the Dark Forest
This paper contributes to the economics of AI by exploring three topics neglected by economists: (i) the notion of a Singularity (and Singleton), (ii) the existential risks that AI may pose to ...
(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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15710
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Nicholas
Bloom
Steven
J.
Davis
Lucia
Foster
Scott
Ohlmacher
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
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Investment and Subjective Uncertainty
A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey ...
(published as '2020 Klein Lecture—Investment and Subjective Uncertainty' in: International Economic Review, 2024, 65 (4), 1591 - 1606)
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L2, M2, O32, O33
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15709
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Zhuoer
Lin
Fang
Ba
Heather
Allore
Gordon
G.
Liu
Xi
Chen
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Geographic Variation in Inpatient Care Utilization, Outcomes and Costs for Dementia Patients in China
Dementia leads public health issue worldwide. China has the largest population of adults living with dementia in the world, imposing increasing burdens on the public health and healthcare systems. ...
(published in: China CDC Weekly, 2022, 4 (45), 997-1001)
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J14, I11, I14, I18, H75
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15704
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Patricia
Palffy
Patrick
Lehnert
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women: Time to Turn the Tide?
We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 380-410)
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J24, J16, I24, M59
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15703
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Martha
J.
Bailey
Janet
Currie
Hannes
Schwandt
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The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic
We use restricted natality microdata covering the universe of U.S. births for 2015-2021 and California births from 2015 to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
(published in: Demograpy, 2023, 120 (34), e2222075120)
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J13, I14
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15702
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Miriam
Koomen
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis
We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102284)
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C55, D63, E24, J31
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15701
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Sebastian
Link
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The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages
This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in Germany. Widely throughout the economy, affected firms responded by rapidly and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105236)
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E31, E24, J38, J31
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15700
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Filippo
Da Re
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Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Depression. Does the Risk of Automation Matter?
We investigate the effect of postponing minimum retirement age on middle-aged workers' depression. Using pension reforms in several European countries and data from the SHARE survey, we find that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102447)
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I1, J24, J26, O33
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15699
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Sandro
Heiniger
Winfried
Koeniger
Michael
Lechner
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The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock
We estimate the transmission of the pandemic shock in 2020 to prices in the residential and commercial real estate market by causal machine learning, using new granular data at the municipal level ...
(revised version published online as 'The heterogeneous response of real estate prices during the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 27 August 2024)
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E21, E22, G12, G51, R21, R31
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