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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17195 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Ethnic Identity and Anti-immigrant Sentiment: Evidence from Proposition 187
Political discourse has often stoked racial and ethnic divisions, raising the possibility that individuals' self-reported racial and ethnic identities may change in response to an increasingly ...
(forthcoming in: Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark Loewenstein (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, University of Chicago Press, 2026)
J15, D72, Z13
17191 Andy Chung
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Carl Singleton
Zhengxin Wang
Junsen Zhang
Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 240, 107340)
J22, L82, L86
17190 Marie C. Hull
Ji Yan
The Impact of Children's Access to Public Health Insurance on Their Cognitive Development and Behavior
While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102935)
H51, I13, I38, J13, J24
17188 Joan Costa-Font
Frank A. Cowell
Specific Egalitarianism? Inequality Aversion across Domains
An individual's inequality aversion (IA) is a central preference parameter that captures the welfare sacrifice from exposure to inequality. However, it is far from trivial how to best elicit IA ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 August 2025)
H1, I18
17183 Giacomo Damioli
Vincent Van Roy
Daniel Vertesy
Marco Vivarelli
Is Artificial Intelligence Generating a New Paradigm? Evidence from the Emerging Phase
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative innovation with the potential to drive significant economic growth and productivity gains. This study examines whether AI is initiating a ...
(published as 'Is artificial intelligence leading to a new technological paradigm?', in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2025,72, 347-359)
O31, O33
17174 Romuald Meango
Esther Mirjam Girsberger
Identification of Ex Ante Returns Using Elicited Choice Probabilities: An Application to Preferences for Public-Sector Jobs
Ex ante returns, the net value that agents perceive before they take an investment decision, are understood as the main drivers of individual decisions. Hence, their distribution in a population is ...
(published in the Economic Journal as 'Just Ask Them Twice: Choice Probabilities and Identification of Ex ante returns and Willingness-To-Pay', DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueag018)
C21, C23, D84, J21, J24, J30, J45
17173 Chiara Binelli
Simona Lorena Comi
Elena Meschi
Laura Pagani
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: The Role of Study Time and Class Recordings on University Students' Performance during COVID-19
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large university located in a northern Italian region severely affected by the pandemic. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 225, 305-328)
I23, I24
17169 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Michael F. Lovenheim
The Long-Run Impacts of Banning Affirmative Action in US Higher Education
This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40 (3), 607–628)
J15, J18, I23
17166 Lindsey Lacey
Nirajana Mishra
Priya Mukherjee
Nikhilesh Prakash
Nishith Prakash
Diane Quinn
Shwetlena Sabarwal
Deepak Saraswat
Can Destigmatizing Mental Health Increase Willingness to Seek Help? Experimental Evidence from Nepal
We conducted a randomized control trial to study the impact of two information messages aimed at reducing the stigma associated with mental illness on the willingness to seek mental healthcare among ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2025, 44 (1), 97-124)
I12, I15
17164 Francisca M. Antman
James Flynn
When Beer Is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses
We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103343)
N33, I15, Q25
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