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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
18162 Cesar Barreto
Christian Merkl
Ex Ante Heterogeneity, Separations, and Labor Market Dynamics
Our paper documents the importance of ex ante worker heterogeneity for labor market dynamics and for the composition of the unemployment pool over the business cycle. In recessions, the unemployment ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2025, 156, 103845)
E24, J16, J31
18160 Robert W. Fairlie
Frank M. Fossen
Ke Lyu
A Tale of Two Startups: The Loss and Gain of Startups in the U.S. Economy in the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered an unprecedented shock to business entry, with sharply contrasting effects on different types of startups. Using newly constructed administrative data from the ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-025-01171-7)
L26, E32, M13
18153 André Rieder
Claus Schnabel
Beyond Collective Agreements: The Rise of the Wage Cushion in Germany
Representative establishment data reveal that over 60 percent of German plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreements, creating a wage cushion between ...
(forthcoming in: LABOUR, 2026)
J30, J31
18150 Linlin Da
Zhezheng Jin
Qianhui Xu
Lisa M. Renzi-Hammond
Zhuo Chen
M. Mahmud Khan
Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa
Xi Chen
Bei Wu
Suhang Song
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation and Cognitive Decline Among Older Americans
This study examines how SNAP participation may affect age-related cognitive decline among cognitively intact older adults over 10 years. Leveraging a longitudinal survey of SNAP-eligible participants ...
(published online in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 25 September 2025)
H53, I38, J14, I18, H75
18146 Jan Stuhler
Multigenerational Inequality
A growing literature provides evidence on multigenerational inequality – the extent to which socio-economic advantages persist across three or more generations. This chapter reviews its main findings ...
(published in Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality, 2024)
J62, J12
18129 Christopher R. Bollinger
Stephen P. Jenkins
Fernando Rios-Avila
Iva V. Tasseva
Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Austria and the United Kingdom Compared
We contribute new cross-national evidence about the nature of measurement errors in employment earnings, fitting the same error components model to harmonised earnings data for Austria and the UK. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, Volume 264, May 2026, 112901)
C81, C83, D31
18120 Andriana Bellou
Emanuela Cardia
Joshua Lewis
From Bust to Boom: The Great Depression and Women's Fertility
The United States experienced dramatic swings in fertility over the course of the early- and mid-20th century. This paper presents a novel explanation for these changes, linking the Great Depression ...
(this paper supersedes the work in ‘Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression’ (IZA Working Paper #8727) by Andriana Bellou and Emanuela Cardia)
None
18118 Jingyi Ai
Xi Chen
Jin Feng
Yufei Xie
Early Effects of Cognitive-Impairment Friendly Community on Health Care Utilization in China: Evidence from Administrative Data
The study examines the early effects of cognitive-impairment (CI) friendly communities on health care utilization among older adults in Shanghai, China. By exploiting the rollout of CI-friendly ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 385, 118570)
I18, J14, I11
18116 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Ermal Ilirjani
Patralekha Ukil
On the Road to Better Life? Rural Road and Economic Development in Albania
This study evaluates the impact of investment in rural roads on household welfare in Albania. Using a difference-in-differences method, we find that treated households experienced a 35-percentage ...
(Published in: European Journal of Development Research 37, 1071–1098 (2025))
012, O18
18111 Michael R. Strain
The Economic Benefits of a Strong US Military, Forward Presence, & International Alliances
When considering the benefits of a strong United States military, it is natural to think of the military’s crucial role in protecting Americans from foreign adversaries and providing security and ...
(forthcoming in: Mackenzie Eaglen (ed.), Affording Defense: Investing in American Strength to Confront a More Dangerous World)
F52, F53, H56
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