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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13180 Frank M. Fossen
Levent Neyse
Magnus Johannesson
Anna Dreber Almenberg
2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. ...
(revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43)
J23, L26
13179 Robert Duval Hernández
Gary S. Fields
George H. Jakubson
Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities
The question of who benefits from economic growth is usually assessed by using cross section data to calculate changes in income inequality. An alternative is to assess patterns of panel income ...
(published as 'Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities' in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (1), 295-324.)
J31, D63
13178 Tim Kaiser
Annamaria Lusardi
Lukas Menkhoff
Carly Urban
Financial Education Affects Financial Knowledge and Downstream Behaviors
We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. The ...
(published in: Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 145 (2), 255-272)
D14, G53, I21
13176 Sergio Firpo
Antonio F. Galvao
Martyna Kobus
Thomas Parker
Pedro Rosa-Dias
Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions
In this paper we develop theoretical criteria and econometric methods to rank policy interventions in terms of welfare when individuals are loss-averse. The new criterion for "loss aversion-sensitive ...
(published online in: Journal of Econometrics, 21 December 2023, 104543)
C12, C14, I30
13175 John H. Pencavel
Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (1), 139 - 167.)
J31, J51, N32
13174 Ina Ganguli
Ricardo Hausmann
Martina Viarengo
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law ...
(published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (349), 104 - 128)
I26, J16, J62, M51, Z1
13173 Jeffrey Traczynski
Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, 2020, 5 (2), 337 - 359)
K35, K36, L26, M13
13172 Peter Arcidiacono
Josh Kinsler
Tyler Ransom
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 144, 104079)
I23, I24, J15
13168 Shuaizhang Feng
Jiandong Sun
Misclassification-Errors-Adjusted Sahm Rule for Early Identification of Economic Recession
Accurate identification of economic recessions in a timely fashion is a major macroeconomic challenge. The most successful early detector of recessions, the Sahm rule, relies on changes in ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, 75, 101319)
J64, E32
13167 Emma Gorman
Ian Walker
Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England
Schools vary in quality, and high-performing schools tend to be oversubscribed: there are more applicants than places available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102082)
I21, I24, J24, H44, D47
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