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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17469 Prashant Loyalka
Dinsha Mistree
Robert W. Fairlie
Saurabh Khanna
Job Training, English Language Skills, and Employability: Evidence from an Experiment in Urban India
Low-income individuals in developing countries are often inadequately prepared for employment because they lack key labor market skills. We explore how employability and wage outcomes are related to ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change)
C93, I25, I26, J24, O15
17466 Zhuoer Lin
Yi Wang
Thomas M. Gill
Xi Chen
School Racial Segregation and Late-Life Cognition
Disparities in cognition persist between non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) and non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) older adults, and are possibly influenced by early educational differences ...
(published in: JAMA Network Open, 2025, 8 (1), e2452713)
I14, I24, I10, J14, J15, H75
17459 Olivier B. Bargain
Rose Camille Vincent
Emilie Caldeira
Shine a (Night)Light: Decentralization and Economic Development in Burkina Faso
Decentralization, championed by international institutions, has been one of the most prominent public sector reforms of the last decades, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, few studies ...
(published in: World Development, 2025, 187, 106851)
H00, H70, H71, H72, O10
17441 Thomas J. Kniesner
Ryan Sullivan
W. Kip Viscusi
The Military VSL
Our research reviews theory and empirical evidence in the economics literature and provides a standard value of a statistical life (VSL) applicable to the Department of Defense (DOD). We follow ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis. 2025)
H56, I18, J17, J28
17439 Joan Costa-Font
Frank A. Cowell
An Unconsidered Leave? Inequality Aversion and the Brexit Referendum
This paper examines a behavioural explanation for the Brexit referendum result, the role of an individual's inequality aversion (IA). We study whether the referendum result was an "unconsidered ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 85, 102648)
H1, I18
17436 Marco Caliendo
Nico Pestel
Rebecca Olthaus
Long-Term Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage in Germany: New Data and Estimators
We investigate the long-term effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 and its subsequent increases on regional employment. Using comprehensive survey data, we are able to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102648)
J23, J31, J38
17431 Jongrim Ha
Dohan Kim
M. Ayhan Kose
Eswar Prasad
Resolving Puzzles of Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets
Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 173, 104957)
E31, E32, Q43
17423 Randi Hjalmarsson
Stephen Machin
Paolo Pinotti
Crime and the Labor Market
The economics of crime has emerged as a critical field over the past 30 years, with economists increasingly exploring the causes and consequences of criminal behavior. This paper surveys key ...
(published in: Christian Dustmann and Thomas Lemieux (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, 2024, 5, 679-759)
K42
17418 Oded Stark
Stress in the Air: A Conjecture
The 1949 study The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath, Volume II, by Stouffer et al. presents detailed accounts of the attitudes of American fighter pilots toward the stress experienced by ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101430)
D01, D23, D9, E7, H56, I12, I38, J28, J38, J48, J58, N42, N44
17410 Amrit Amirapu
Niaz Asadullah
Zaki Wahhaj
Can the Law Affect Attitudes and Behaviour in the Absence of Strict Enforcement? Experimental Evidence from a Child Marriage Reform in Bangladesh
In developing countries, one in four girls is married before turning 18, with adverse consequences for themselves and their children. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization)
J12, J16, K36
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