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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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15573
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Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
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Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
This paper examines the economic foundations of three criteria used for evaluating the costs and benefits of social programs. Some criteria do not consider the scale of programs or address the costs ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2022, 13 (3), 281 - 286)
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D61
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15572
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Lucía
Echeverría
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Active Commuting and the Health of Workers
Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by ...
(published in: Journal of Transport & Health, 2023, 31, 101626)
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R40, I10, J22
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15571
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Jonas
Jessen
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Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality
This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review 2022, 150, 104310)
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J16, J22, D1
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15570
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Klaus
Desmet
Ignacio
Ortuño Ortín
Ömer
Özak
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Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (668), 1261–1299)
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H77, P00, D70, D74, F02, F52, Z10
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15567
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Nick
Drydakis
Anna
Paraskevopoulou
Vasiliki
Bozani
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A Field Study of Age Discrimination in the Workplace: The Importance of Gender and Race. Pay the Gap
The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and affects access to vacancies outcomes and wage sorting. In order to answer the ...
(published in: Employee Relations, 2023, 45 (2), 304-327)
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C93, C9, J14, J1
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15566
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Cyprien
Batut
Andrea
Garnero
Alessandro
Tondini
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The Employment Effects of Working Time Reductions: Sector-Level Evidence from European Reforms
In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry-level data in European countries to study the economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and 2007. Our ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (1), 217 - 232)
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J20, J30, J80
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15563
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Karla
Cordova
Markus
M.
Grabka
Eva
Sierminska
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Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2022, 38, 755 - 810)
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H55, D31, J16
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15561
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Isaac
Gross
Andrew
Leigh
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Assessing Australian Monetary Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in which the cash rate is set according to an optimal simple rule. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (322), 271 - 295)
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E47, E52, E58
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15560
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Sarah
Cattan
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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First Generation Elite: The Role of School Networks
Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure to high school peers from elite educated families ('elite peers') plays in ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Review)
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I24, J24, J62
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15556
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Seth
Gershenson
Stephen
B.
Holt
Adam
Tyner
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Making the Grade: The Effect of Teacher Grading Standards on Student Outcomes
Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers might affect student learning is through the grading standards they set for their ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2024, 42 (2): 305-318)
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I2
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15555
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Patrick
Lehnert
Michael
Niederberger
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
Eric
Bettinger
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Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery: Filling Data Gaps across Time and Space
This paper develops a novel procedure for proxying economic activity with day-time satellite imagery across time periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise ...
(published in: Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus , 2023, 2 (4), pgad099 )
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E01, E23, O18, R11, R14
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15554
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 653 - 673)
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I31, J28, J5, L2, M5
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15552
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Viola
Corradini
Lorenzo
Lagos
Garima
Sharma
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Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, 140 (3), 2053–2105)
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J31, J33, J51, J52
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15551
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Richard
Freund
Marta
Favara
Catherine
Porter
Jere
R.
Behrman
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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 296 - 318)
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J24, I2, I1
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15550
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Andreu
Arenas
Caterina
Calsamiglia
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Gender Differences in High-Stakes Performance and College Admission Policies
We investigate the effect of increasing the weight of standardized high-stakes exams at the expense of high school grades for college admissions. Studying a policy change in Spain, we find a negative ...
(forthcoming in: Management Science, 2025.)
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J16, I23, I24
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15549
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Chunbing
Xing
Xiaoyan
Yuan
Junfu
Zhang
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City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 97, 103834)
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J31, R12, R23, O15
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15548
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Victoria
Hunter
Gibney
Kristine
L.
West
Seth
Gershenson
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Blurred Boundaries: A Day in the Life of a Teacher
The burnout, stress, and work-life balance challenges faced by teachers have received renewed interest due to the myriad disruptions and changes to K-12 schooling brought about by the COVID-19 ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 51, 247-275)
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I2, J22
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15547
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence
Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 255-304)
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H75, I24, I38, J24
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15546
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Donn.
L.
Feir
Marina
Mileo
Gorzig
Samuel
Myers Jr
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Native American 'Deaths of Despair' and Economic Conditions
Non-Hispanic whites who do not have a college degree have experienced an increase in "deaths of despair" – deaths caused by suicide, drug use, and alcohol use. Yet, deaths of despair are ...
(published in: Research in Social Stratification, 2024, 89, 100880)
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I14, J15, J16
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15545
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Rania
Gihleb
Osea
Giuntella
Luca
Stella
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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2022, 10 (4), 789-814)
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A13, D64, J6, I31
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15543
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Stephen
Kastoryano
Ben
Vollaard
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Nautical Patrol and Illegal Fishing Practices
We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023 122, 102881.)
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D22, K42, Q22
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15542
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Billur
Aksoy
Christopher
S.
Carpenter
Dario
Sansone
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Understanding Labor Market Discrimination against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey
Using a US nationally representative sample and a double list experiment designed to elicit views free from social desirability bias, we find that anti-transgender labor market attitudes are ...
(published in: Management Science, 2024, 71 (1), 659-677. )
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C90, J15, J71, K31
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15540
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Cevat Giray
Aksoy
José
María
Barrero
Nicholas
Bloom
Steven
J.
Davis
Mathias
Dolls
Pablo
Zarate
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Working from Home Around the World
The pandemic triggered a large, lasting shift to work from home (WFH). To study this shift, we survey full-time workers who finished primary school in 27 countries as of mid 2021 and early 2022. Our ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022, 281–330 )
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J2, D22, E24, L23
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15538
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Luca
Paolo
Merlino
Max
F.
Steinhardt
Liam
Wren-Lewis
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The Long Run Impact of Childhood Interracial Contact on Residential Segregation
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105242)
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I29, J15, R23
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15533
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Osea
Giuntella
Sally
McManus
Redzo
Mujcic
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Ahmed
Tohamy
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The Midlife Crisis
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (357), 65 - 110)
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I31, I14, I12
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15530
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Julie
Moschion
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Do Early Episodes of Depression and Anxiety Make Homelessness More Likely?
This paper studies the relationship between early mental health episodes and early homelessness, focusing on depression and anxiety amongst disadvantaged Australians. Using data from the Australian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 654-674)
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I12, I32
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15527
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Marie
C.
Hull
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What Divides the First and Second Generations? Family Time of Arrival and Educational Outcomes for Immigrant Youth
In this paper, I develop a measure of host country experience, which I call "relative time of arrival," to explore differences between first- and second-generation immigrants. This measure is finer ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2023, 89 (3), 754-787)
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I24, J13, J15
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15526
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Vladimir
Otrachshenko
Olga
Popova
Milena
Nikolova
Elena
Tyurina
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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit: Opportunity Amidst Adversity
We theoretically and empirically examine how acquiring new skills and increased financial worries influenced entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze ...
(published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 71, 102093)
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E24, J24, L26, P20
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15523
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Malte
Baader
Simon
Gächter
Kyeongtae
Lee
Martin
Sefton
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Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential ...
(revised version published online in: Economic Theory, 11 November 2024)
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A13, C91
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15520
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Nils
Braakmann
Arnaud
Chevalier
Tanya
Wilson
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Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location
We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK ...
(published in: American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (4), 144 - 160)
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K42, J19
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15515
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Andre
Kurmann
Etienne
Lalé
Lien
Ta
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Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-Time Data
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research using private-sector datasets to measure business dynamics and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 250, 105477)
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E01, E24, E32, E60
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15512
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Simon
Gächter
Chris
Starmer
Fabio
Tufano
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Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (2), 539–554)
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C92, D91
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15511
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Xi
Chen
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Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults: A Research Note
This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We ...
(published as 'The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University–Lancet Commission' in :The Lancet Commission Report, 2022, 400 (10367), P1967 - 2006 )
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I14, J14, J13, I18
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15510
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William
Cochrane
Jacques
Poot
Matthew
Roskruge
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Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake: New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) ...
(published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2023, 29 (2), 155-184)
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21, C45, C52, H53, R23
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15509
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Thushyanthan
Baskaran
Zohal
Hessami
Temurbek
Khasanboev
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Political Selection When Uncertainty Is High
Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2023, 145, 76 (2), 161-178)
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D72, D78, H70, J13, J16
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15506
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Fidel
Bennett
Veronica
Escudero
Hannah
Liepmann
Ana
Podjanin
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Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics
We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 35-99. )
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C81, J24, O33, O54
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15505
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Maurizio
Strazzeri
Chantal
Oggenfuss
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories
We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices ...
(published as 'Early exposure to foreign language training and students’ educational trajectories' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 108, 102684 (with Enzo Brox))
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I21, I24, I28
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15501
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Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales
In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 210, 210-225.)
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D91, Z10, Z11, L82, M30, D12
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15500
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Simon
Jäger
Shakked
Noy
Benjamin
Schoefer
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The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
We give an overview of the "German model" of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (4), 53 - 80)
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J5, J4
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15499
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John
V.
Winters
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Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas
This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) and a two-way fixed effects regression model. I examine effects ...
(published in: Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (JAAEA), 2022, 1 (3), 254-269)
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J20, J30, R10
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15498
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Donn.
L.
Feir
Rob
Gillezeau
Maggie
E. C.
Jones
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The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains
In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1634–1670)
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I15, J15, N31, N32, O10
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15497
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Jacob
Nielsen
Arendt
Christian
Dustmann
Hyejin
Ku
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Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-arrival Policies in Denmark
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 531-556)
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J22, J24, J61
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15495
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Claudius
Garten
Michal
Myck
Monika
Oczkowska
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Homeownership and the Perception of Material Security in Old Age
Homeownership has been shown to be related to various aspects of well-being, although both the causal nature of this relationship and the possible channels behind it have been difficult to identify. ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2025, 57 (33), 4988 - 5000)
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I31, J14, D84
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15493
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Martina
Celidoni
Joan
Costa-Font
Luca
Salmasi
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Too Healthy to Fall Sick? Longevity Expectations and Protective Health Behaviours during the First Wave of COVID-19
Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 202, 733 - 745 )
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I12, I18
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15492
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David
Gill
Yaroslav
Rosokha
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Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 259– 283)
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C72, C73, C91, D91
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15489
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Yiran
Han
Baris
Yörük
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Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies and Mental Health
More than 18 percent of U.S. adults met the diagnostic criteria for a mental illness. Yet, many who could benefit from mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to ...
(Published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 42)
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I12, I13, I18
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15486
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Nicolas
Gavoille
Mihails
Hazans
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Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity
The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the ...
(revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2025, 164 (3), https://doi.org/10.16995/ilr.18853)
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J24, J32, J81
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15485
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Sharun
Mukand
Ivan
Yotzov
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Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence
Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions of lives and haunting survivors. Economists and economic historians have recently made new contributions to ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2022, 86, 101471)
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D74, F22, F51, N4, O15, R23
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15484
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Deepti
Goel
J.
V.
Meenakshi
Zaeen
De Souza
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Did the Nation-Wide Implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence
This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's ...
(published as 'Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence' in: Review of Development Economics, 2024, 28 (4), 1994-2013)
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H53, H75, D73, D78, I38
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15483
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D’Wayne
Bell
Jing
Feng
John
B.
Holbein
Jonathan
Smith
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Do STEM Students Vote?
For decades, pundits, politicians, college administrators, and academics have lamented the dismal rates of civic engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, ...
(published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2024, 61 (1), 48-73.)
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I21, I23, D72
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