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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12730 Giulio Zanella
Marina M. Bellani
The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 675-697)
O12, O43, Z1
12728 Abel Brodeur
Hasin Yousaf
The Economics of Mass Shootings
We perform an empirical investigation of the socioeconomic determinants and consequences of all mass shootings in the U.S. from 2000 to 2015. We first manually search for and collect information on ...
(published online as 'On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022)
D74, C13, P16
12727 Kyoji Fukao
Saumik Paul
Baumol versus Engel: Accounting for 100 years (1885-1985) of Structural Transformation in Japan
This paper examines the drivers of the long-run structural transformation in Japan. We use a dynamic input-output framework that decomposes the reallocation of the total output across sectors into ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2021, 74 (1), 164-180)
O40, O10
12726 Ulf Rinne
Hendrik Sonnabend
Female Workers, Male Managers: Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88 (3), 906 - 930)
D81, J16, J4, M12, Z29
12725 Heather Joshi
Alex Bryson
David Wilkinson
Kelly Ward
The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958
Using data tracking all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 through to their mid-50s we observe an inverse U-shaped gender wage gap (GWG) over their life-course: an initial gap in ...
(published in: Gender, Work & Organization, 2021, 28, 397 - 415)
J16, J31
12724 Graziella Bertocchi
Monica Bozzano
Gender Gaps in Education
This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its evolution, over time and across countries. The survey first focuses on gender ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.); Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020, 1-31)
J1, N3, O1
12723 Simon Amez
Stijn Baert
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Literature Review
We present the first systematic review of the scientific literature on smartphone use and academic success. We synthesise the theoretical mechanisms, empirical approaches, and empirical findings ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Educational Research, 2020, 103, 10161)
I21, I23, L86
12722 Magnus Lofstrom
Brandon Martin
Steven Raphael
The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Involvement with the Criminal Justice System: The Case of California's Proposition 47
We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration rates experienced by California residents from different racial and ethnic groups. ...
(published in: Criminology & Public Policy, 2020, 19 (4), 1165-1207)
K40, K42
12721 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies
Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for ...
(published as 'Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 395 - 422)
J12, J16, J15, K37
12720 Paul Frijters
Andrew E. Clark
Christian Krekel
Richard Layard
A Happy Choice: Wellbeing as the Goal of Government
In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of ...
(published in: Behavioural Public Policy, 2020, 4(2), 126–165)
I3, A10, H10, H83
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