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Does one size fit all? The country-specific effects of ECB monetary policy

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105025

Deborah Gefang , Stephen G. Hall , George S. Tavlas , Yongli Wang

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“Try to Balance the Baseline”: A comment on “Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes: Evidence from a developing country” by Islam (2019)

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105021

Carl Bonander , Olle Hammar , Niklas Jakobsson , Gunther Bensch , Felix Holzmeister , Abel Brodeur

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Behind the screens: A replication and extension of Coasian bargaining experiments in the digital age

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105024

Jesse D. Backstrom , Catherine C. Eckel , Ryan Rholes , Meradee Tangvatcharapong

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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960–2018

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105018

Ulrich Glogowsky , Emanuel Hansen , Dominik Sachs , Holger Lüthen

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Leaving the past behind: Effects of clean slate regulation on employment and earnings

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105015

Kabir Dasgupta , Keshar Ghimire , Alexander Plum

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On the GDP effects of severe physical hazards

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105019

Martin Bodenstein , Mikaël Scaramucci

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Mining and mistrust in government

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105002

Astghik Mavisakalyan , Anna Minasyan

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Appetite for Ignorance: Does eating meat cause information avoidance about its harms?

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105013

Bénédicte Droz , Berno Buechel , Mónica Capra , Xi Chen , Anis Nassar , Seong Gyu Park , Jin Xu , Shanshan Zhang , Joshua Tasoff

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Income uncertainty, precautionary wealth, and social insurance

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105003

Matthew Joyce, Aarti Singh

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A quantitative model of trust as a predictor of social group sizes and its implications for technology

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European Economic Review Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.105012

M. Burgess , R.I.M. Dunbar

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