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17218 Timothy J. Hatton
Sailing Ship Technology, Navigation and the Duration of Voyages to Australia, 1848-85
Sailing ships persisted on emigrant voyages to Australia until the late nineteenth century and passage durations decreased by three weeks from the late 1840s to the mid-1880s. The shortening of ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2025, 78 (2), 452-473)
F22, N77, O33
17216 Anna Adamecz
Anna Lovász
Suncica Vujic
Beyond the Degree: Fertility Outcomes of 'First in Family' Graduates
This paper looks at the relationship between higher education and fertility, focusing on how intergenerational educational mobility shapes this dynamic. Using the 1970 British Cohort Study, we ...
(published online in: Review of Economics of the Household, 23 July 2025)
I26, J13, J16, J24
17211 Veronica Escudero
Hannah Liepmann
Damian Vergara
Directed Search, Wages, and Non-wage Amenities: Evidence from an Online Job Board
We leverage rich data from a prominent online job board in Uruguay to assess directed search patterns in job applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage amenities. We find robust ...
(an updated version can be found here. )
E24, J31, J32, J62, J63
17204 Yafei Si
Yuyi Yang
Xi Wang
Ruopeng An
Jiaqi Zu
Xi Chen
Xiaojing Fan
Sen Gong
Quality and Accountability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Healthcare in Low- And Middle-Income Countries (LMIC): A Simulated Patient Study Using ChatGPT
Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess ChatGPT's effectiveness and reliability in diagnosing and treating common ...
(published as 'Quality and Accountability of ChatGPT in Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Simulated Patient Study' in: Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024, 26, e56121)
C0, I10, I11, C90
17202 Paolo Brunori
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Guido Neidhöfer
Inequality of Opportunity and Intergenerational Persistence in Latin America
How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2025, 4 (S1), i167–i199,)
D31, I39, J62, O15
17201 Facundo Alvaredo
Francois Bourguignon
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Nora Lustig
Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America
Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2025, 4 (S1), i9-i35.)
D31, D63, O54
17195 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Ethnic Identity and Anti-immigrant Sentiment: Evidence from Proposition 187
Political discourse has often stoked racial and ethnic divisions, raising the possibility that individuals' self-reported racial and ethnic identities may change in response to an increasingly ...
(forthcoming in: Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark Loewenstein (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, University of Chicago Press, 2026)
J15, D72, Z13
17191 Andy Chung
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Carl Singleton
Zhengxin Wang
Junsen Zhang
Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 240, 107340)
J22, L82, L86
17190 Marie C. Hull
Ji Yan
The Impact of Children's Access to Public Health Insurance on Their Cognitive Development and Behavior
While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102935)
H51, I13, I38, J13, J24
17188 Joan Costa-Font
Frank A. Cowell
Specific Egalitarianism? Inequality Aversion across Domains
An individual's inequality aversion (IA) is a central preference parameter that captures the welfare sacrifice from exposure to inequality. However, it is far from trivial how to best elicit IA ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 August 2025)
H1, I18
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