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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13647 Shuo Chen
Bin Xie
Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U.S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 94, 101615)
J15, N31, K37
13645 Alberto Urtasun
Marta Martínez Matute
Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries
Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2022, 25 (1), 220 - 241)
D22, D81, J21, J23
13644 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students
Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 87, 102233)
I24, I23, I22
13643 Matias Cortes
Eliza Forsythe
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By ...
(published as 'Distributional Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21 (2), 325-349.)
J31, J65, J68, H53, H84, E24
13641 George Psacharopoulos
Victoria Collis
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Emiliana Vegas
Lost Wages: The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's ...
(published as 'The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World' in: Comparative Education Review, 2021, 65, 271–287)
I26, I20, J24
13640 Kailing Shen
Bledi Taska
Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
We propose a reweighting-estimation-transformation (RWET) approach to estimate the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 153-171)
J21, J63, C55
13638 Teresa Molina
Ivan Rivadeneyra
The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador
This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 196, 104383)
I23, I24, I28, O15
13637 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Checchi
Lorenzo Rocco
Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity
In 2017 the Italian government established the Fund to Finance Basic Research Activities – FFABR – with the purpose of assigning a 3,000 euros research grant to the most productive applicants ...
(published as 'Where do I stand? Assessing researchers' beliefs about their productivity' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 185, 61-80)
I28
13636 Ylenia Brilli
Claudio Lucifora
Alessia Russo
Marco Tonello
Influenza Vaccination Behavior and Media Reporting of Adverse Events
We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more) decisions to vaccinate against the flu. We exploit the diffusion of news linking ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2020, 124 (112), 1403 - 1411)
I12, I18, J10
13635 Danula K. Gamage
Georgios Kavetsos
Sushanta Mallick
Almudena Sevilla
Pay Transparency Initiative and Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Research-Intensive Universities in the UK
Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university ...
(published in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (2), 293-318)
I23, J16, J31, J44
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