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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
13634 Moussa Blimpo
Todd Pugatch
Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102583)
I25, I26, I28, J24, O12, O15
13633 Terry Gregory
Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
This paper provides new insights into how wages and employment adjust to a minimum wage policy along different wage and skill groups. For this, we exploit a quasi-experimental setting in the 1990s, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104582)
J31, J38, J24, C21, J23
13632 Thomas J. Kniesner
Ryan Sullivan
The Forgotten Numbers: A Closer Look at COVID-19 Non-Fatal Valuations
Our research estimates Covid-19 non-fatal economic losses in the U.S. using detailed data on cumulative cases and hospitalizations from January 22, 2020 to July 27, 2020, from the Centers for Disease ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Special Issue: Valuation and Risk Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, 61(2), 155-176)
I18, J17, J28, H51
13631 Gilbert Mbara
Joanna Tyrowicz
Ryszard Kokoszczynski
Striking a Balance: Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model where employers may avoid making social security contributions by offering some workers "secondary contracts". When calibrated using aggregate ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2020, 66, 103245)
H2, H26, H3, E13, E26, J81
13630 Shelly Lundberg
Educational Gender Gaps
Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates of participation in STEM studies by girls. Recent economics research has shown ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2020, 87 (2), 416-439)
I20, J12, J16
13628 Mark Kassis
Sascha L. Schmidt
Dominik Schreyer
Matthias Sutter
Psychological Pressure and the Right to Determine the Moves in Dynamic Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments – like R&D ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 278-287.)
C93, D00, D81, D91, Z20
13627 Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün
Murat Güray Kirdar
Berna Tuncay
The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced ...
(published as 'The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on Native Population Mortality' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102534)
H51, I18, J13, J15, O15
13626 Feicheng Wang
Krisztina Kis-Katos
Minghai Zhou
Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, ...
(published as 'Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1830-1864)
F13, F14, F16, F66, J16
13625 David E. Bloom
Michael Kuhn
Klaus Prettner
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2022, 60 (1), 85–131)
D15, D58, E10, E20, I12, I15, I18, I31, O40
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