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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13742 Kadir Atalay
Rebecca Edwards
Stefanie Schurer
David Ubilava
Lives Saved during Economic Downturns: Evidence from Australia
Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (10), 2452 - 2467)
I12, E32, E24
13741 Olga B. Stoddard
Christopher F. Karpowitz
Jessica Preece
Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Policy interventions to increase women's presence in the workforce and leadership positions vary in their intensity, with some including a lone or token woman and others setting higher quotas. ...
(updated version available as DP 16625)
J16
13737 Charles Gottlieb
Jan Grobovsek
Markus Poschke
Fernando Saltiel
Working from Home in Developing Countries
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 133, 103679)
J21, J22, O1
13735 Nick Obradovich
Ömer Özak
Ignacio Martín
Edmond Awad
Manuel Cebrián
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Iyad Rahwan
Ángel Cuevas
Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 2022, 190, 1920220085)
C80, F1, J1, O10, R10, Z10
13733 Caroline Wehner
Andries de Grip
Harald Pfeifer
Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186)
J23, D91, M51
13732 Todd Pugatch
Nicholas Wilson
Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education
More than two of every five students who enroll in college fail to graduate within six years. Prior research has identified ineffective study habits as a major barrier to success. We conducted a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (5), 1637-1682)
A22, D91, I23, M31
13728 Zhiming Cheng
Ben Zhe Wang
Zhou Jiang
Lucy Taksa
Massimiliano Tani
English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having ...
(published online as 'English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia' in: International Migration, 19 June 2021, )
F22, I26, J24, J61
13725 Fabrizio Mazzonna
Franco Peracchi
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision Making
We investigate whether older people correctly perceive their own cognitive decline, and the potential financial consequences of misperception. First, we document the fact that older people tend to ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 1793-1830)
J14, J24, C23
13724 Luciana C. Fiorini
Michael Jetter
Christopher F. Parmeter
Christopher Parsons
The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany
Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents ...
(revised version published as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594)
D61, D72, H11, N44
13723 Ruben C. Arslan
Martin Brümmer
Thomas Dohmen
Johanna Drewelies
Ralph Hertwig
Gert G. Wagner
How People Know Their Risk Preference
People differ in their willingness to take risks. Recent work found that revealed preference tasks (e.g., laboratory lotteries)—a dominant class of measures—are outperformed by survey-based stated ...
(published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365)
D80, D81, D91, D01
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