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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13086 Andri Chassamboulli
Pedro Maia Gomes
Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay
We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 142, 331-347)
E24, J31, J45, J64
13085 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Subha Mani
Joseph Vecci
Tomáš Želinský
Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
In an unique lab-in-the-field experiment we design a novel labor market environment, the Game of Prejudice, to elicit preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
C9, D3, I1, O1
13083 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Lucas Guichard
Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 126, 103364)
F22, D81, D83
13081 Plamen Nikolov
Matthew Bonci
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967)
D64, H31, H55, J14, J22, J26, O15, O16, R2
13080 Robert W. Fairlie
Prashant Loyalka
Scott Rozelle
Yue Ma
Isolating the 'Tech' from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (4), 1923–1962)
I21, O15
13079 Cheti Nicoletti
Kjell G. Salvanes
Emma Tominey
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?
Increasing mothers' labour supply in a child's preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that lead to a negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (2), 389–429)
I22, I24
13078 Dany Bahar
Hillel Rapoport
Riccardo Turati
Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with ...
(published as 'Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence' in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (8), 103991)
F22, O31, O33
13076 Andres Drenik
Simon Jäger
Pascuel Plotkin
Benjamin Schoefer
Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
We estimate how much firms differentiate pay premia between regular and outsourced workers. We study temp agency work arrangements where pay setting has previously escaped measurement because ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 206–216.)
J31, J53, L24
13075 Teevrat Garg
Ajay Shenoy
The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies
Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103 (4), 1239-1250)
Q53, O40, Q56, H54
13073 Ning Jia
Belton M. Fleisher
Economic Incentives and the Quality of Return Migrant Scholars: The Impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program
We study the effect of the Thousand Young Talents Program (TYTP) on the academic quality of return migrant scientists to China. Using a unique dataset of the top Chinese mathematics departments' new ...
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J61, O31, O38
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