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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17479 Agata Galkiewicz
Jan Marcus
Thomas Siedler
E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?
To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side effects of question ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital)
A22, I23
17478 Xinyu Li
Wendelin Schnedler
Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Teams are formed because input from different people is needed. Providing incentives to team members, however, can be diffcult. According to received wisdom, declaring all members responsible fails ...
(published online in: Management Science, 24 January 2025)
M54, D23, D86, L23, K12, K13
17475 Vladimir Otrachshenko
Olga Popova
Environment vs. Economic Growth: Do Environmental Preferences Translate Into Support for Green Parties?
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the drivers of electoral support for Green parties and the environmental actions they promote, which is key to ensuring the long-term feasibility ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2026, 239, 108779)
D72, H11, Q56, Q58
17473 Matthias Collischon
Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Regina T. Riphahn
Subsidized Small Jobs and Maternal Labor Market Outcomes in the Long Run
This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, ...
(published online in: Socio-Economic Review, 28 February 2025)
J22, J13, J18
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
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