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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13699 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Sabine Flamand
Schools' Attitudes Towards Single Parents: Experimental Evidence
Single parenthood is on the rise everywhere in the world. While previous studies show that acceptance of single-parent households is increasing, some authors point out that single-parent families are ...
(published as 'Attitudes towards single parents’ children in private and state-dependent private schools: experimental evidence' in: SERIEs, 2023, 14, 223 - 242)
I24, I29
13696 Clare Leaver
Owen Ozier
Pieter Serneels
Andrew Zeitlin
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were ...
(published in: American Economic Review 2021, 111 (7), 2213 - 2246)
C93, I21, J45, M52, O15
13695 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Neeraj Kaushal
Ashley N. Muchow
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the ...
(published as 'Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.' in. Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 1445 - 1572)
I1, I10, I18
13694 Jagori Chatterjee
Joshua D. Merfeld
Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and investigates how this relationship changes when households have access to ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105624)
H53, I15, I38, O12
13693 Keith A. Bailey
James R. Spletzer
A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy
We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102009)
J2, J3
13692 Arthur Grimes
Stephen P. Jenkins
Florencia Tranquilli
The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 309 - 330)
D31, D63, I31
13689 Sandro Casal
Antonio Filippin
The Effect of Observing Multiple Private Information Outcomes on the Inclination to Cheat
This paper investigates experimentally how the inclination to cheat changes when agents report the result of multiple realizations of a (private information) stochastic event rather than a single ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 543 - 562)
C81, C91, D82
13687 Joan Costa-Font
Mario Gyori
The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353)
I18, J16
13686 David L. Dickinson
David M. McEvoy
Further from the Truth: The Impact of In-Person, Online, and mTurk on Dishonest Behavior
Recent policies require some interactions previously conducted in close social proximity (e.g., school, workplace) to take place remotely, which motivates our investigation of how in-person versus ...
(revised version published as 'Further from the truth: The impact of moving from in-person to online settings on dishonest behavior' in: Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics , 2021, 90, 101649)
C91, D90
13685 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Alexandrina P. Stoyanova
Is There a Link between BMI and Adolescents' Educational Choices and Expectations?
One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of ...
(published as 'The relationship between overweight and education revisited: a test of the selection hypothesis based on adolescents' educational aspirations' in: Public Health, 2023, 224, 237 - 243)
I24, I29
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