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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13784 Lisa A. Cameron
Jennifer Seager
Manisha Shah
Crimes against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not in neighboring ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136 (1), 427–469, )
I18, K42, J16
13782 Laurent Bossavie
Yoon Y. Cho
Rachel Heath
The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103107)
F16, J16, J31, J32, J81, O12
13781 Anna Aizer
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6), 2012-2047;)
J12, J13, I31, I32
13779 Jordy Meekes
Wolter Hassink
Fired and Pregnant: Gender Differences in Job Flexibility Outcomes after Job Loss
We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm ...
(published as 'Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2022, 129, 103425)
J16, J22, J31, J32, J6, R2
13778 Silvia Mendolia
Olena Stavrunova
Oleg Yerokhin
Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information
This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 199-231 )
H12, D70, I18, D80
13776 Joshua Wilde
Wei Chen
Sophie Lohmann
COVID-19 and the Future of US Fertility: What Can We Learn from Google?
We use data from Google Trends to predict the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future births in the United States. First, we show that periods of above-normal search volume for Google keywords ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2024, 50 (S1), 421-446 )
J11, J13, I10, C53
13774 Wolfgang Frimmel
Martin Halla
Jörg Paetzold
Julia Schmieder
Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation ...
(published online in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023)
J14, J22, I11, I18, R23
13773 Charles G. Ackah
Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley
Cecília Hornok
Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the ...
(published as 'Africa’s Businesswomen – Underfunded or Underperforming?' in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62 (3), 1051-1074)
D22, F14, J16
13771 Charlotte Hvidman
Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Søren Albeck Nielsen
Michael Rosholm
An Intensive, School-Based Learning Camp Targeting Academic and Non-Cognitive Skills Evaluated in a Randomized Trial
We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school, using a stratified cluster randomized trial ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 88, 102535)
I21, C21, D91, I28
13770 Ozkan Eren
Michael F. Lovenheim
Naci Mocan
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy
This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 361 - 395)
I2, K4
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