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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14081 Eiji Yamamura
Giorgio Brunello
The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2023, 37 (2), 149 - 163)
J13, J14, J16, I31
14080 Bruna Guidetti
Paula Pereda
Edson Severnini
'Placebo Tests' for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure
When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 371 - 375)
I15, Q53, Q56, O13
14079 Ruchir Agarwal
Patrick Gaule
What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity—measured by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102591)
O31, O38, J24
14077 Cristina Borra
Maria Iacovou
Almudena Sevilla
Adolescence Development and the Math Gender Gap
Using different production function models, we study the causal association between adolescence development and the increase in the gap in math performance between boys and girls. We use data from ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 158, 104542)
I21, I24, J16
14076 Nora Cheng
Elliott Fan
Tsong-Min Wu
Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
This study investigates the sudden disappearance of foot-binding, a costly custom practiced for centuries in China and Taiwan prior to its demise. We estimate the numbers of women who unbound their ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 157, 102876.)
J16, N35, Z13
14075 Phoebe Kotlikoff
Ahmed S. Rahman
Katherine Smith
Minding the Gap: Academic Outcomes from Pre-college Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of assignment to a one-year college preparatory program on academic performance in college. To measure the value added from pre-college programs, we use a large ...
(published in: Education Economics 2022, 30 (19), 3-24 )
I20, J24
14074 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and achievement than males and this is particularly the case for children from less ...
(published as: The Economics of Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, August 2021)
I24, J16
14073 Anirban Mitra
Sarmistha Pal
Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities
We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination ...
(published as 'Ethnic Diversity, Social Norms and Elite Capture: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia' in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 947 - 996)
D72, D74, H40
14071 Aaron Yelowitz
Samuel J. Ingram
How Does Occupational Licensing Affect Entry into the Medical Field? An Examination of EMTs
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to temporary suspensions of many occupational licensing laws, especially for health care professionals, in an effort to manage surges in health care demand. The ...
(published as 'How does occupational licensing affect entry into the medical field? An examination of emergency medical technicians' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 38 - 61)
J44, K31, I13
14070 David L. Dickinson
Caleb Garbuio
The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task
This paper reports on a preregistered study aimed at testing for executive function differences across individuals who self-reported one of four distinct dietary patterns: No Diet, No Sugar, ...
(revised version published in: Health Science Reports, 2021, 4 (3), e369 )
D90, C90, I10
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