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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15249 Jun Du
Sourafel Girma
Holger Görg
Ignat Stepanok
Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?
China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 1007-1031)
H25, H32, L25
15246 Edoardo di Porto
Cristina Tealdi
Heterogeneous Paths to Stability
We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024, 187 (4), 1037–1064)
J41, J63, J64
15242 Henri Bussink
Tobias Vervliet
Bas ter Weel
The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 ...
(published in: De Economist, 2022, 170 (2), 279-303)
J10, J23, I24
15241 Tymon Sloczynski
Derya Uysal
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Abadie's Kappa and Weighting Estimators of the Local Average Treatment Effect
In this paper we study the finite sample and asymptotic properties of various weighting estimators of the local average treatment effect (LATE), several of which are based on Abadie (2003)'s kappa ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2024, 43 (1), 164–177)
C21, C26
15240 Peter Arcidiacono
Josh Kinsler
Tyler Ransom
What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences
Using detailed admissions data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC cases, we examine how racial preferences for under-represented minorities (URMs) affect their admissions to Harvard ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023, 1 (4), 615–668.)
I23, I24, J15
15239 Jinyang Yang
Xi Chen
Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China
We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (4), 1881–1921)
H23, H31, H55, I38, J22, O15
15237 Barbara Sadaba
Suncica Vujic
Sofia Maier
Characterizing the Schooling Cycle
This paper develops a novel and tractable empirical approach to estimate the cycle in schooling participation decisions, which we denominate the schooling cycle. The estimation procedure is based on ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling , 2024, 132, 106649.)
E3, I2, J2, C32
15235 Sabrine Ferjani
Sami Saafi
Ridha Nouira
Christophe Rault
The Impacts of the Dollar-Renminbi Exchange Rate Misalignment on the China-United States Commodity Trade: An Asymmetric Analysis
Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and ...
(published in: Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2022, 20 (3), 507-554)
F14, F31, C10
15233 Rufei Guo
Junjian Yi
Junsen Zhang
The Child Quantity–Quality Trade-off
This chapter reviews the growing literature on the child quantity–quality (QQ) trade-off. During the transition from the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022 )
D10, J13
15232 Herwig Immervoll
Raphaela Hyee
Rodrigo Fernandez
Jongmi Lee
How Reliable Are Social Safety Nets? Value and Accessibility in Situations of Acute Economic Need
Social protection systems use a range of entitlement criteria. First-tier support typically requires contributions or past employment in many countries, while safety net benefits are granted on the ...
(updated and extended version published as: IZA DP No. 17477, 2024)
H53, H31, D31, I38, C31, C53
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