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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17146 James Flynn
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?
This paper uses the implementation of a privately funded family planning program in Colorado to demonstrate that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 8 May 2024)
J13, I18, I12
17145 Kelsey J. O'Connor
Stefano Bartolini
Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (3), 749-774)
I21, I31, J24
17142 Orley Ashenfelter
Štepán Jurajda
The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison
Thanks to standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald's restaurants, the hourly wage of McDonald's Basic Crew enables wage comparisons under near-identical skill inputs and hedonic job ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 16 September 2024)
J31
17139 Marianna Kudlyak
Erin L. Wolcott
Pandemic Layoffs and the Role of Stay-at-Home Orders
We compile a novel high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset on mass layoffs from U.S. state labor departments. Using recent advances in difference-in-difference estimation with staggered ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111894)
E32, J63, J64
17135 Lei Xu
Massimiliano Tani
Yu Zhu
Can the Teaching Style Reduce Inequality in the Classroom? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
We investigate the effects of 'lecture-based' (LBT) – i.e. individual work and rote learning - versus 'discussion-based' (DBT) – i.e. participative and focused on student-centred learning - teaching ...
(published in: British Educational Research Journal, 2024, 50 (6), 2849 - 2874)
I21, I24
17132 John Forth
Carl Singleton
Alex Bryson
Van Phan
Felix Ritchie
Damian Whittard
The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility across Firms
In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 63 (4), 746-757)
J23, J38, J68, J88
17119 Marco Clemens
Jan Sauermann
Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity
Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity. Although workers' skills may directly matter for the cost of effort to reach performance goals, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102694)
M52, J33, C23
17111 Pierre Cahuc
The Micro and Macro Economics of Short-Time Work
This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its ...
(published as 'Short-term work policies' in: C. Dustman, Lemieux, T. (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 5, Elsevier, 2024)
J23, J41, J63
17110 Paola Giuliano
Antonio Spilimbergo
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs
A growing body of work has shown that aggregate shocks affect the formation of preferences and beliefs. This article reviews evidence from sociology, social psychology, and economics to assess the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 62 (2), 542–597)
E00, P00, Z1
17101 Stephen Hoskins
David W. Johnston
Johannes S. Kunz
Michael A. Shields
Kevin E. Staub
The Importance of Sampling Frequency for Estimates of Well-Being Dynamics
Using a high-frequency panel survey, we examine the sensitivity of estimated self-reported well-being (SWB) dynamics to using monthly, quarterly, and yearly data. This is an important issue if SWB is ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111880)
I1, I3
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