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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
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
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