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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16957 Li Dai
Pedro S. Martins
Does Vocational Education Pay off in China? Evidence from City-Level Education Supply Shocks
China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2024, 140, 106863)
I26, I25, J24, J31, C36
16955 Stefan C. Wolter
Thea Zöllner
Are Parents an Obstacle to Gender-Atypical Occupational Choices?
Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a persistent concern for policymakers and academics globally. We contribute to the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025)
J24, J16
16947 Michael Jetter
On the Post-Enlightenment Evolution of Moral Universalism
Is humanity's circle of moral concern expanding, as often claimed? I explore frequencies of morally universal language in 15m book publications in American English, British English, French, Spanish, ...
(advanced version published online in: Economic Journal, 18 June 2025 )
N30, Z12, Z13
16946 Hideo Akabayashi
Ryuichi Tanaka
The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Estimates from the Nationwide Expansion
We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (5), 581-598)
I22, I28, H75
16945 Janine Albiez
Maurizio Strazzeri
Stefan C. Wolter
Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
We examine the association between the personality trait grit and post-compulsory educational choices and trajectories using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting ...
(published online in: , 16 September 2025)
D01, I20
16944 Maximilian Kasy
Algorithmic Bias and Racial Inequality: A Critical Review
Most definitions of algorithmic bias and fairness encode decisionmaker interests, such as profits, rather than the interests of disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial minorities): Bias is defined as a ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40 (3), 530–546)
J7, O3
16939 Alena Bičáková
Štepán Jurajda
COVID-19 and Political Preferences through Stages of the Pandemic: The Case of the Czech Republic
We track the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on political preferences through 'high' and 'low' phases of the pandemic. We ask about the effects of the health and the economic costs of the pandemic ...
(published online as 'Political Preferences Through Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Political Research Quarterly, 12 March 2025)
D72
16935 Lucas Guichard
Joël Machado
The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy
We analyze the externalities arising from a bilateral asylum policy - the list of safe origin countries - relying on a tractable model. Using self-collected monthly data, we estimate that including ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 59–74)
F22, K37, J61
16929 Adam Levai
Riccardo Turati
International Immigration and Labor Regulation
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (4), 809-851)
J61, K31, F22
16928 David Blazar
Max Anthenelli
Wenjing Gao
Ramon Goings
Seth Gershenson
Disparate Pathways: Understanding Racial Disparities in Teaching
Mounting evidence supporting the advantages of a diverse teacher workforce prompts policymakers to scrutinize existing recruitment pathways. Following four cohorts of Maryland public high-school ...
(forthcoming in: Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 2025)
I2, J2, J4
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