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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17096 Catia Batista
David M Costa
Pedro Freitas
Gonçalo Lima
Ana B Reis
What Matters for the Decision to Study Abroad? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cape Verde
Study abroad migration is the fastest growing international migration flow. However, the college completion rates of students from low-income countries are often modest in OECD countries, raising the ...
(pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 173, 103401)
O15, F22, J61, C91
17094 Delphine Boutin
Laurene Petifour
Yvonne Allard
Souleymane Kontoubré
Valéry Ridde
Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso
Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 371, 117870)
I13, I15, O12, G21, O55
17082 Rafael Perez Ribas
Breno Sampaio
Giuseppe Trevisan
The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
The ranking system within academic environments may impact future professional trajectories. Examining the influence of class rank on college students' managerial attainment is crucial for ...
(pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531)
D91, I23, J16, J24, M51
17079 Marco Fongoni
Daniel Schaefer
Carl Singleton
Why Wages Don't Fall in Jobs with Incomplete Contracts
We investigate how the incompleteness of an employment contract - discretionary and non-contractible effort - can affect an employer's decision about cutting nominal wages. Using matched ...
(published in: Management Science, 2025, 71(8), 6319-6339.)
E24, E70, J31, J41
17076 Joanna Clifton-Sprigg
Eleonora Fichera
Ezgi Kaya
Melanie K. Jones
Fathers Taking Leave: Evaluating the Impact of Shared Parental Leave in the UK
We study the effect of the introduction in 2015 of UK Shared Parental Leave policy on the up-take and the length of leave taken by fathers. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study and Regression ...
(forthcoming in: Fiscal Studies, 2025)
D13, J08, J13, J18
17075 Wim Naudé
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and empirical flaws in the first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI) that was launched in 2024. These flaws limit the usefulness of the ...
(published online in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 25 April 2025)
L26, L53, O55, O435
17074 Krishna Regmi
Minimum Wages and the Uptake of Supplemental Security Income
This study investigates whether the minimum wage affects the uptake of Supplemental Security Income (SSI). To disentangle the effect of the minimum wage from underlying macroeconomic conditions, I ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102592)
J08
17072 Pablo Celhay
Sebastian Gallegos
Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025))
J62, N36, I24, I25, I28
17070 Laura Derksen
Jason Kerwin
Natalia Ordaz Reynoso
Olivier Sterck
Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 136 (665), 81–118)
D81, I15, O12
17068 Andrew E. Clark
Anthony Lepinteur
I Can't Forget about U: Lifetime Unemployment and Retirement Well-Being
It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1083-1100)
J21, J63, I31
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