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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14766 Hai-Anh H Dang
Trong-Anh Trinh
Paolo Verme
Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835)
I15, J15, J21, J61, O15
14765 Roel M. W. J. Beetsma
Oliwia Komada
Krzysztof Makarski
Joanna Tyrowicz
The Political (In)Stability of Funded Social Security
We analyze the political stability of funded social security. Using a stylized theoretical framework we study the mechanisms behind governments capturing social security assets in order to lower ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, 133, 104237)
H55, D72, E17, E27
14762 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Andrew Leigh
"Beauty Too Rich for Use": Billionaires' Assets and Attractiveness
We examine how the net worth of billionaires relates to their looks, as rated by 16 people of different gender and ethnicity. Surprisingly, their financial assets are unrelated to their beauty; nor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 73, 102153)
J24, J40, C24
14761 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566)
C43, D01, D31, D63, I31, P46
14760 Micheline Goedhuys
Michael Grimm
Aline Meysonnat
Eleonora Nillesen
Ann-Kristin Reitmann
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number ...
(published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964)
C43, D91, D39, J13
14758 David Card
Fabrizio Colella
Rafael Lalive
Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity
In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 21 August 2024)
J16, J68, J63
14755 Joop Adema
Till Nikolka
Panu Poutvaara
Uwe Sunde
On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172)
D12, D91, G50
14754 Joan Costa-Font
Nilesh Raut
Courtney Van Houtven
Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers
Health insurance expansions can exert wellbeing effects on individuals who provide informal care to their loved ones, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084)
I18
14753 Joan Costa-Font
Nilesh Raut
Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation ...
(published online in: Health Economics,15 March 2025 )
I18, H11, H24
14751 Michael Pesko
Casey Warman
Re-Exploring the Early Relationship between Teenage Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use Using Price and Tax Changes
In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (2),137 - 153)
I18, H71
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