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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13063 Fabrice Etilé
Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we ...
(published as 'Measuring resilience to major life events' in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 598-619)
I10, C2, C5
13062 David Neumark
Maysen Yen
Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying out analyses of the impacts of these city minimum wages, as specified in a ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61 (2), 228-255 )
J23, J38
13061 Scott M. Delhommer
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Same-sex couples' marital surplus, their excess total income over that predicted by their work times and predicted wages, increases little as the duration of their relationship lengthens. When/where ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40, 1120-1139.)
J12, J16, K30
13059 Andrew C. Johnston
Carla Johnston
Is Compassion a Good Career Move?: Nonprofit Earnings Differentials from Job Changes
We explore the nonprofit earnings penalty. To separate the influence of demand and supply, we leverage workers who change employers in administrative tax data. The average nonprofit worker earns 5.5 ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56, 1225 - 1253)
J4, J31, L3
13058 Hai-Anh H Dang
Kseniya Abanokova
Michael Lokshin
Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2023, 247 (4), 125-153.)
D6, I3, O1
13057 Stephen P. Jenkins
Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for ...
(published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531)
D31, D63, I31
13056 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Adeline Delavande
Paulino Font Gilabert
Joanna Maselko
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 712–747 )
I12, I15, J24
13055 Vikesh Amin
Carlos A. Flores
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers
We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100895)
I10, I12
13054 Michael Jetter
Leandro Magnusson
Sebastian Roth
Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis
This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the 2008 financial crisis. Studying ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 128, 103512)
D81, G11, G14, G41, J16
13053 Vanessa Burbano
Nicolas Padilla
Stephan Meier
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 61–94)
D91, J16
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