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13354 Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Xuan Zhang
Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Consumption and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Singapore
We examine the short-term impact of COVID-19 on consumption spending and labor market outcomes. Using monthly panel data of individuals mainly aged 50–70 in Singapore, we find that COVID-19 reduced ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (Suppl. 1), 115–134. )
E2, I12, H2, J01
13352 Hai-Anh H Dang
Toan L. D. Huynh
Manh-Hung Nguyen
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Development, 2024, 26 (1), 2-18)
D00, H00, I1, I3, O1
13351 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Barry Eichengreen
Orkun Saka
The Political Scar of Epidemics
What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (600), 1683–1700, )
D72, F50, I19
13349 Maddalena Davoli
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Culture and Adult Financial Literacy: Evidence from the United States
Using a US nationally representative sample of over 6,000 adults from 26 countries of ancestry, we find a strong association between their financial literacy in the US and the financial literacy ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102013)
D14, E2, I22, Z10
13346 James J. Heckman
Bei Liu
Mai Lu
Jin Zhou
Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
This paper evaluates the causal impacts of an early childhood home visiting program for which treatment is randomly assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children ...
(new version available here)
J13, Z18
13345 Matthias Stefan
Jürgen Huber
Michael Kirchler
Matthias Sutter
Markus Walzl
Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking: The Ranking Substitution Effect
Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 56, 104458)
C93, D02, D91
13344 Parampreet Christopher Bindra
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Daniel Neururer
Matthias Sutter
Reveal It or Conceal It: On the Value of Second Opinions in a Low-Entry-Barriers Credence Goods Market
Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment ...
(revised version published as 'On the value of second opinions: a credence goods field experiment' in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109925)
C93, D82
13343 Georg Graetz
Björn Öckert
Oskar Nordström Skans
Family Background and the Responses to Higher SAT Scores
Using discontinuities within the Swedish SAT system, we show that additional admission opportunities causally affect college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023)
I21, I23, J62
13341 David Card
Andrew C. Johnston
Pauline Leung
Alexandre Mas
Zhuan Pei
The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the ...
(published in: American Economics Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105 (5), 126-130)
J64, J65, D91
13338 Eva M. Berger
Ernst Fehr
Henning Hermes
Daniel Schunk
Kirsten Winkel
The Impact of Working Memory Training on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills
Working memory capacity is thought to play an important role for a wide range of cognitive and noncognitive skills such as fluid intelligence, math, reading, the inhibition of pre-potent impulses or ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025)
J24, I2, C93
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