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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15139 Aspasia Bizopoulou
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Stefania Simion
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105214)
J16, I21, I23
15138 Hani Mansour
Terra McKinnish
Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages
Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 115–138)
J12, J24
15137 Thomas Dudek
Anne Ardila Brenře
Jan Feld
Julia Rohrer
No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from ...
(published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (9), 1574 - 1587)
J12, J16, J24
15136 Robert E. Hall
Marianna Kudlyak
The Unemployed with Jobs and without Jobs
Potential workers are classified as unemployed if they seek work but are not working. The unemployed population contains two groups—those with jobs and those without jobs. Those with jobs are on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102244)
E32, J63, J64
15135 Robert E. Hall
Marianna Kudlyak
The Inexorable Recoveries of Unemployment
Unemployment recoveries in the US have been inexorable. Between 1948 and 2019, the annual reduction in the unemployment rate during cyclical recoveries was fairly tightly distributed around 0.1 log ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 131, 15 - 25)
E32, J63, J64
15134 Michele Di Maio
Francesco Fasani
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza
Vasco Molini
Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State
We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 460-485)
F22, J61, K37
15133 Hans Henrik Sievertsen
Sarah Smith
Male and Female Voices in Economics
Women's voices are likely to be even more absent from economic debates than headline figures on female under-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are ...
(updated version published as 'The gender gap in expert voices: Evidence from economics' in: Public Understanding of Science, 2025, 34 (4), 446-458.)
A11, J16
15132 Jin Zhou
James J. Heckman
Bei Liu
Mai Lu
The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We ...
(earlier version of this paper available as IZA DP No. 13346. )
J13, Z18
15131 Matthew J. Lindquist
Jan Sauermann
Yves Zenou
Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile ...
(revised version available here)
J24, M50
15130 Matěj Bělín
Tomáš Jelínek
Štepán Jurajda
Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust
Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent ...
(part of the paper published as 'Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023, 120 (29), e2221654120)
Z1
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