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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17525 Andrew Leigh
Stephen Robson
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall in Mental Wellbeing among Young Australians
Using multiple sources, we document a substantial worsening in the mental wellbeing of Australians aged 15-24, as measured by surveys, self-harm hospitalisations and suicide deaths. The shift began ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2025, 58 (1), 33-38)
D91, I12, L82
17521 Solomon Polachek
Kenneth Romano
Ozlem Tonguc
Homo-Silicus: Not (Yet) a Good Imitator of Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus
Do large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, and Google's Gemini 1.0 Pro—simulate human behavior in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game with varying stake sizes? This ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of the Economic Science Association)
D01, C72, C90
17516 Nick Drydakis
Small Enterprises' Digital Competencies and Financial Performance
In the contemporary business landscape, digital competencies have become a crucial factor for small enterprises to remain competitive and thrive. The present study examines how a business ...
(published in: V. Aranitou, A. Angelakis, and M. Manioudis (eds), The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Analytical Approaches to Growth and Innovation Challenges Amid Crises in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2025, 55–68)
D25, O14, M53
17509 Alicia De Quinto
Libertad González
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Family-Friendly Policies on Mothers' Employment
Countries often encourage part-time work among new parents as part of their family policies, aiming to foster mothers' labor market attachment. However, this approach may unintentionally impede ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102672)
J08, J13, J16, J18
17506 Oded Stark
Lukasz Balbus
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As explained in the body of the paper, we diverge from a result reported in Stark ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392)
D01, D64, D81, G41
17504 Eduard Brüll
Davud Rostam-Afschar
Oliver Schlenker
Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Quality of Primary Care
We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany's needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new ...
(Labour Economics, 92, 102669, 2025)
I11, I18, J44, J22, L10, L22, R23
17499 Désirée I. Christofzik
Angela Fuest
Robin Jessen
Macroeconomic Effects of the Anticipation and Implementation of Tax Changes in Germany: Evidence from a Narrative Account
This paper quantifies the dynamic macroeconomic effects of tax changes in Germany, allowing for anticipation effects of preannounced tax reforms. Identification is achieved using a narrative ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 62-81.)
H20, H30, E32, E62
17498 Robin Jessen
Johannes König
Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle
We decompose earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125( 4), 956–996.)
D31, J22, J31
17492 Xueying Liu
Zhong Zhao
Does Social Pension Insurance Increase the Efficiency of Household Financial Portfolios?
This study investigates the impact of social pension insurance on the efficiency of household financial portfolios, utilizing data from the 2019 wave of the China Household Finance Survey. Our ...
(published in: Finance Research Letters, 2025, 81, 107323)
G59, J24, I28
17490 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe
The hidden value of adult informal care (IC) refers to the unaccounted value of informal care in overall costs of long-term care (LTC) estimates. This paper estimates the net value of adult IC in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34 (4), 791-812)
I18, J17, J18
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