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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14892 Michael Grimm
Sidiki Soubeiga
Michael Weber
Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the ...
(published as 'Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171.103344.)
D22, O12, Q13
14891 Frank M. Fossen
Mobarak Hossain
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
Peter Toth
The Cost of Health Insurance and Entry into Entrepreneurship
Unavailable or expensive health insurance may hinder the transition of individuals from paid employment to entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 383-405)
I13, I11, J22, J23, L26
14890 D. Mark Anderson
Ron Diris
Raymond Montizaan
Daniel I. Rees
The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment
There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It is not clear, however, whether these phenomena are causal. We use data on Dutch ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 91, 102774.)
I1, I12, I18
14889 Emanuele Brancati
R&D Plans, Expectations, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the COVID-19 Shock in Italy
This paper takes advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to explore the determinants of firms' R&D choices around an exogenous shock. We make use of unique panel data on 7,800 Italian companies between ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2023, 67, 303-318)
O3, D22, D84
14887 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Jakub Lonsky
Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104447)
J1, J23, J24, R2
14884 Mario Lackner
Uwe Sunde
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
COVID-19 and the Forces behind Social Unrest
The unprecedented consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have raised concerns about intensified social unrest, but evidence for such a link and the underlying channels is still lacking. We use a ...
(published as 'The forces behind social unrest: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Plos One, 2025, 20 (1), e0314165)
H
14883 Alan Auerbach
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Peter B. McCrory
Daniel Murphy
Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession
In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022, 126, 102669)
E62, E32, H3
14882 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Vibeke Jakobsen
Hanna Mac Innes
Peder J. Pedersen
Torun Österberg
Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Many European high-income countries face a rapid increase in the number of immigrants from low- and middle-income countries reaching the normal pension age. Thus, it is increasingly relevant to ask: ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (19), 4648 - 4669)
I32, J14, J15, J61
14881 Maja Adena
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Michal Myck
Monika Oczkowska
Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time
Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 813 - 838)
I31, I19, J14
14880 Jocelyn Wikle
Riley Wilson
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
We explore how access to Head Start impacts maternal labor supply. By relaxing child care constraints, public preschool options like Head Start might lead mothers to reallocate time between ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 1081–1127)
J13, J22, H4, I28, H52, I38
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