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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12793 Bruno Crépon
Patrick Premand
Direct and Indirect Effects of Subsidized Dual Apprenticeships
Traditional apprenticeships based on private arrangements are widespread in developing countries. Public interventions have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae094, 10 October 2024)
D22, J23, J24, O12, C93
12792 Lindsey Macmillan
Emma Tominey
Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1513–1543)
I24, J13, D10
12791 Matteo Picchio
Jan C. van Ours
The Mental Health Effects of Retirement
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 419-452 )
H55, J14, J26
12790 Olga Malkova
Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms
This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104111)
J18, J26, H55
12789 Marco Bertoni
Roberto Nistico
Ordinal Rank and Peer Composition: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
We use data from two experiments that randomly assign students to groups to show that, so long as ordinal rank has a causal effect on educational achievement, estimates of the effects of peer ability ...
(published as 'Ordinal rank and the structure of ability peer effects' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, 104797)
I21, I24, J24
12788 Kristiina Huttunen
Krista Riukula
Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by ...
(published in: Labour Economics. 2024, 90, 102578)
I24, J24, J63
12787 José António Cabral Vieira
Climbing the Ladders of Job Satisfaction and Employees' Organizational Commitment: A Semi-Nonparametric Approach
Researchers and human resource practitioners are nearly unanimous that satisfied and committed employees can play a major positive role in business performance. There is, however, a need for further ...
(published as 'Climbing the ladders of job satisfaction and employee organizational commitment: cross-country evidence using a semi-nonparametric approach' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2023, 26 (1), 2163581.)
J50, J53
12786 Abhir Kulkarni
Barry Hirsch
Revisiting Union Wage and Job Loss Effects Using the Displaced Worker Surveys
Estimates of union wage effects have been challenged due to concerns over unobserved worker heterogeneity and endogenous job changes. Many believe that union wage premiums lead to business failures ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (4), 948-976)
J31, J51, J65
12783 D. Mark Anderson
Kerwin Kofi Charles
Daniel I. Rees
Tianyi Wang
Water Purification Efforts and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, 1906-1938
According to Troesken (2004), efforts to purify municipal water supplies at the turn of the 20th century dramatically improved the relative health of blacks. There is, however, little empirical ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 122, 103329.)
I18, J11, J15, N3
12782 David Masclet
David L. Dickinson
Incorporating Conditional Morality into Economic Decisions
We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material ...
(published online in: Theory and Decision, 28 August 2024)
B3, D6, D9
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