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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15129 Serena Canaan
Anne Sophie Lassen
Philip Rosenbaum
Herdis Steingrimsdottir
Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries
Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn ...
(published in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2022)
J08, J12, J13, J22, J23
15128 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022)
I21, J16, J24
15126 Giuseppe Moscelli
Melisa Sayli
Marco Mello
Staff Engagement, Job Complementarity and Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS Hospital Workforce
We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be ...
(updated version of this paper published as IZA DP No. 15638.)
C33, C36, I11, J22, J28, J63
15125 Warn N. Lekfuangfu
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity
We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023,106, 102078)
D64, H2
15124 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Kaushalendra Kumar
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Arindam Nandi
Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression ...
(published in: Economic Papers, 2022, 41 (2), 144 - 175)
I12, I15, I18, J13, J24, O12
15123 Holger Görg
Alina Mulyukova
Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104752)
O18, O25, P25, R10, R58, R23, F21, F60
15122 Marie-Claire Robitaille
Joniada Milla
Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania
The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (8), 1246- 1265)
J13, J16
15120 Farzana Afridi
Sisir Debnath
Taryn Dinkelman
Komal Sareen
Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production
In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 283–304)
O13, J22
15119 Sascha O. Becker
Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research
Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes ...
(published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2022, 62 (1), 2-25)
F22, R23, D74, Q54, N30
15118 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Victoria Vernon
Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015–2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565 )
D13, J22, J29
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