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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12960 David A. Jaeger
John M. Nunley
R. Alan Seals Jr.
Eric J. Wilbrandt
The Demand for Interns
We describe the demand for interns in the U.S. using ads from an internship-specific website. We find that internships are more likely to be paid when more closely associated with a specific ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 372 - 390)
J23, I23
12959 Maria De Paola
Rosetta Lombardo
Valeria Pupo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Do Women Shy Away from Public Speaking? A Field Experiment
Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid it because it generates anxiety. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 102001)
D91, C93, M50, J56
12958 Breno Braga
Olga Malkova
Hope for the Family: The Effects of College Costs on Maternal Labor Supply
We examine the effects of college costs on the labor supply of mothers. Exploiting changes in college costs after the roll-out of nine generous state merit aid programs from 1993 to 2004, we analyze ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (1), 230-262)
I22, J22, J13
12955 Raymond Robertson
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
Matias Morales
The Relationship between Female Labor Force Participation and Violent Conflicts in South Asia
This paper explores the link between the prevalence of violent conflicts and extremely low female labor force participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from ...
(published in: Contemporary South Asia, 2023, 31 (3), 371 - 389)
J21, F51, O53
12954 Bin Huang
Yu Zhu
Higher Education Expansion, the Hukou System, and Returns to Education in China
China experienced a near 5-fold increase in annual Higher Education (HE) enrolment in the decade starting in 1999. Using the China Household Finance Survey, we show that the expansion has exacerbated ...
(revised version published as: 'Huang, B., Tani, M., Wei, Y. & Y. Zhu: Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the Great Higher Education Expansion' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 74, 101804. )
I26, I23
12953 Gaurab Aryal
Manudeep Bhuller
Fabian Lange
Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (5), 1669-1702)
J24, J31, D83
12952 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (4), 1499-1522)
J15, J12, I14
12951 Sabien Dobbelaere
Quint Wiersma
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2025, 34 (1), 210 - 233)
F14, F16, L11, P31
12949 Paolo E. Giordani
Fabio Mariani
Unintended Consequences: Can the Rise of the Educated Class Explain the Revival of Protectionism?
This paper provides a rationale for the revival of protectionism, based on the rise of the educated class. In a trade model with heterogeneous workers and entrepreneurs, globalization generates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2022, 200, 105385.)
D72, F68, I24, J24, O40
12947 Yann Bramoullé
Habiba Djebbari
Bernard Fortin
Peer Effects in Networks: A Survey
We survey the recent, fast-growing literature on peer effects in networks. An important recurring theme is that the causal identification of peer effects depends on the structure of the network ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2020, 12, 603 - 629)
J15, J12, I14
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