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14433 Chao Fang
Ernest Zhang
Junfu Zhang
Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from Speedcubers
We analyze a large sample of participants in mixed-gender Rubik's Cube competitions. Focusing on participants who barely made or missed the cut for the second round in a competition, we examine their ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109943.)
D91, J16, L83
14432 Nicola Gagliardi
Elena Grinza
François Rycx
Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity
In this paper, we explore the impact of workers' tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on private Belgian firms. We estimate a production function ...
(published as 'Workers' Tenure and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2023, 62 (1), 3-33)
D24, M59
14430 Lucía Echeverría
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Green Mobility and Well-Being
Recent years have witnessed efforts worldwide to promote green mobility, aimed at boosting sustainable economic growth. However, how green mobility relates to travelers' well-being remains an open ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2022, 195, 107368)
R4, J22
14429 Peng Nie
Qiaoge Li
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Energy Poverty and Subjective Well-Being in China: New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adults aged 18 and over. In addition to ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 103: 105548.)
I10, I12, R21
14427 Bhaskar Chakravorty
Wiji Arulampalam
Apurav Yash Bhatiya
Clement Imbert
Roland Rathelot
Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the ...
(This version: April 2023)
J24, J61, M53
14426 Sebastian Fehrler
Moritz Janas
Delegation to a Group
We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off ...
(published in: Management Science, 2021, 67, 3714-3743)
C92, D23, D71
14425 Jonathan Portes
Immigration and the UK Economy after Brexit
I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (1), 82-96, )
E24, J24, J61, M53
14423 Tommaso Agasisti
Massimiliano Bratti
Veronica Minaya
When Need Meets Merit: The Effect of Increasing Merit Requirements in Need-Based Student Aid
Merit requirements in need-based student aid may exacerbate inequality in higher education but at the same time improve efficiency of aid expenditure by increasing on-time graduation, for instance. ...
(revised version published in: European Economics review, 2022, 146, 104164 )
I21, I22, I28
14422 Greg Howard
Russell Weinstein
Yuhao Yang
Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?
We use a novel identification strategy to investigate whether regional universities make their local economies more resilient to adverse economic shocks. Our strategy is based on state governments ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (4), 1129–1145.)
R10, I23, J20
14421 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
The Creativity Premium
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key ...
(published as 'The Creativity Premium: Exploring the Link between Childhood Creativity and Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 495–526)
D91, J24
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