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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13322 Cecily Josten
Grace Lordan
The Interaction Between Personality and Health Policy: Empirical Evidence from the UK Smoking Bans
We investigate whether responses to the UK public places smoking ban depend on personality. Drawing on individual level panel data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we exploit variation ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100899)
C23, D04, I10, I12, I18, H75
13319 Timo Mitze
Reinhold Kosfeld
Johannes Rode
Klaus Wälde
Face Masks Considerably Reduce COVID-19 Cases in Germany: A Synthetic Control Method Approach
We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of Covid-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits regional variation in the point in time when face ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (5), 32293-32301)
I18, C23
13318 Melanie K. Jones
Ezgi Kaya
The Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from Northern Ireland?
Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 94–114)
J16, J31, J24
13315 Hai-Anh H Dang
Long T. Giang
Turning Vietnam's COVID-19 Success into Economic Recovery: A Job-Focused Analysis of Individual Assessments on Their Finance and the Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in ...
(published in: Sustainability, 2021, 13 (19), 10664)
I1, I3, J01, J08, O1
13313 Sofoklis Goulas
Silvia Griselda
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Comparative Advantage and Gender Gap in STEM
Why are females compared to males both more likely to have strong STEM-related performance and less likely to study STEM later on? We exploit random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1937-1980)
I21, I24, J24
13311 Robert W. Fairlie
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first ...
(published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740)
J15, J16, L26
13310 Alina Kristin Bartscher
Sebastian Seitz
Sebastian Siegloch
Michaela Slotwinski
Nils Wehrhöfer
Social Capital and the Spread of COVID-19: Insights from European Countries
We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102531)
D04, A13, D91, H11, H12, I10, I18
13308 Patrick Arni
Davide Dragone
Lorenz Götte
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors: Theory and Evidence
This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102425)
C93, D03, D83, I12
13307 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Ludo Visschers
Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2021, 91 (3), 1119-1153)
E24, E30, J62, J63, J64
13306 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Should We Cheer Together? Gender Differences in Instantaneous Well-Being during Joint and Solo Activities
The COVID-19 pandemic has confined millions in their homes, representing an unprecedented case for spending more time together with family members. This situation is a challenge for households, given ...
(published as 'Should we cheer together? Gender differences in instantaneous well-being: An application to COVID-19 lockdowns' in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 529 - 562)
D10, J16, J22
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