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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17296 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
The Pecuniary Costs of Early School Leaving and Poor Basic Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
We produce estimates of the pecuniary costs of inadequate investment in human capital for countries, macro regions and the world at large. These costs are borne by individuals (private costs), the ...
(also available as 'The price of inaction: the global private, fiscal and social costs of children and youth not learning', United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 2024)
I24, I25
17295 Francine D. Blau
Lisa M. Lynch
50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We ...
(published as 'Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in Economics, Policy, and Leadership' in: ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2024, 711 (1), 225-244)
J0, J01, J10, J16, J2, J21, J24, J7, J70
17294 Matias Busso
Sebastián Montaño
Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
Nolan G. Pope
The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Selection: Evidence from a Large-Scale Reform in Colombia
Teacher quality is a key factor in improving student academic achievement. As such, educational policymakers strive to design systems to hire the most effective teachers. This paper examines the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105238.)
I25, I28, J24
17293 Malte Sandner
Ipek Yükselen
Unraveling the Gender Wage Gap: Exploring Early Career Patterns among University Graduates
A large body of literature has shown that the gender wage gap is small in the first years after graduation and increases gradually with age, largely because of family decisions, i.e., a penalty ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 72 (2), e12405)
I23, J16, J31, J71
17291 John Forth
Alex Bryson
Van Phan
Felix Ritchie
Carl Singleton
Lucy Stokes
Damian Whittard
Revisiting Sample Bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with Implications for Estimates of Low Pay and the Bite of the National Living Wage
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides many of the UK's official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated ...
(published online as 'The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 25 August 2025)
C81, C83, J31
17283 Matias Busso
Sebastián Montaño
Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
Unbundling Returns to Postsecondary Degrees and Skills: Evidence from Colombia
Using longitudinal data of college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skills—including literacy, numeracy, foreign language, and ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2024, 33 (1), 1-18)
I20, I24, J24, J31
17278 Bernd Hayo
Duncan H.W. Roth
The Perceived Impact of Immigration on Native Workers' Labour Market Outcomes
A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between socio-economic groups and their potential correlation with perceived concerns about ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 85, 102610)
F22, J61, D84
17275 Nick Drydakis
Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Information and communication technology (ICT) can boost existing socio-economic inequalities if the former is socially exclusive. Longstanding barriers prevent minoritized populations from accessing ...
(published in:G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.)
O3, M2
17274 Rosanne Freak-Poli
Stephen P. Jenkins
Michael A. Shields
Trong-Anh Trinh
Evidence on the Robustness of the Links between Social Relationships and Mortality
Despite a substantial literature on the links between social relationships and mortality, the size of the relative risks from loneliness, social isolation, and living alone, remain controversial. ...
(forthcoming in: Demography, 2026)
I14, I18, I31
17270 Riccardo Turati
Network Abroad and Culture: Global Individual-Level Evidence
This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38 (1), 1-42)
F22, O15, Z10
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