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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15299 Yu Zhu
Lei Xu
Returns to Higher Education - Graduate and Discipline Premiums
This paper reviews and evaluates progress in recent research on the graduate premium in general as well as the differential graduate premiums by discipline, accounting for higher-education choice by ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
I26, I23, I24
15298 Marco Alfano
Joseph-Simon Goerlach
Terrorism, Media Coverage and Education: Evidence from Al-Shabaab Attacks in Kenya
We examine how terrorism alters the demand for education through perceived risks and returns by relating terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (2), 727–763)
D74, L82, F52, I21
15297 Badi H. Baltagi
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Haci M. Karatas
The Effect of Higher Education on Women's Obesity and Smoking: Evidence from College Openings in Turkey
This paper analyzes the relationship between higher education and body weight and smoking behavior among women in Turkey. We exploit the largely exogenous and substantial increase in the openings of ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 123, 106-286. )
I12, I21, I23, I26, C26
15291 Samuel Baker
Pietro Biroli
Hans van Kippersluis
Stephanie von Hinke
Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive ...
(published as 'Advantageous early-life environments cushion the genetic risk for ischemic heart disease' in: PNAS, 2024, 121 (27), e2314056121)
I10, I14, I19
15290 Wei Shi
Yun Qiu
Pei Yu
Xi Chen
Optimal Travel Restrictions in Epidemics
Travel restrictions are often imposed to limit the spread of infectious diseases. As uniform restrictions can be inefficient and incur unnecessarily high costs, this paper examines the optimal design ...
(also available in: Spatial Data Lab, 2020, Webinars on Modeling COVID-19 Pandemic? Resources, Methodology and Applications, Harvard Dataverse, V4)
I18, R1, C21, C6
15289 Herwig Immervoll
Rodrigo Fernandez
Raphaela Hyee
Jongmi Lee
Daniele Pacifico
De-facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-standard Workers: An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support
Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy ...
(elements published in: Left on your own? Social protection when labour markets are in flux, OECD, 2019, and in two OECD country studies: Korea, 2023, United States, 2023)
I38, J65, H55, H53, C31, C35
15287 Alison Preston
Robert E. Wright
Financial Literacy Amongst Young People: When Does the Gender Gap Begin?
Using micro-data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique, this paper contributes to knowledge on gender-gaps in ...
(published as 'When Does the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy Begin?' in: Economic Record, 2024, 100 (328), 44-73)
B54, D14, D31, G18, I30, J26
15281 Andreas Leibing
Frauke Peter
Sevrin Waights
C. Katharina Spieß
Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations
Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102398)
I26, J31, D84
15280 Vitus Püttmann
Stephan L. Thomsen
The Third Mission in the Academic Profession: Empirical Insights into Academic Identities
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the ...
(revised version forthcoming as 'The Microfoundations of Academics’ Engagement with Society' in: Technovation, 2025.)
I23, O35, O36
15279 Andrew E. Clark
Maria Cotofan
Richard Layard
The Full Returns to the Choice of Occupation and Education
Information on both earnings and non-pecuniary rewards is needed to understand the occupational dispersion of wellbeing. We analyse subjective wellbeing in a large UK sample to construct a measure of ...
(published as 'Do wages underestimate the inequality in workers’ rewards? The joint distribution of job quality and wages across occupations' in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 497-546)
I31, J31
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