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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12681 Mehtabul Azam
Luyi Han
Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20(2), 20190302)
J16, J82
12680 Clive Bell
Hans Gersbach
Evgenij Komarov
Untimely Destruction: Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an overlapping-generations frame-work in which young adults, confronted with such ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024, 28 (7), 1451 - 1492)
D91, E13, I15, I25, O11, O41
12679 Ronald Bachmann
Peggy Bechara
Christina Vonnahme
Occupational Mobility in Europe: Extent, Determinants and Consequences
We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168(1), 79-108)
J62, J63, P52
12677 Osea Giuntella
Matthias Rieger
Lorenzo Rotunno
Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico
In this paper, we investigate the effects of trade in foods on obesity in Mexico. To do so, we match data on Mexican food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 122, 103277)
F60, F61, I10, I12
12676 Harold E. Cuffe
Jan Feld
Trevor O’Grady
Returns to Teaching Repetition - The Effect of Short-Term Teaching Experience on Student Outcomes
Teachers often deliver the same lesson multiple times in one day. In contrast to year-to-year teaching experience, it is unclear how this teaching repetition affects student outcomes. We examine the ...
(published in: Education, Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (3), 516-532)
I21, I23
12675 Michèle Belot
Jonathan James
Jonathan Spiteri
Facilitating Healthy Dietary Habits: An Experiment with a Low Income Population
This paper tests an intervention aimed at facilitating (cognitively) the adoption of healthy dietary habits. We provide easy-to-understand information about the risks of developing diabetes or heart ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103550)
I12, I18, H51, D83
12674 Michèle Belot
Jonathan James
Martina Vecchi
Nicolai Vitt
Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-SES Mothers
We investigate whether short-term everyday stressors leads to unhealthier dietary choices among low socioeconomic status mothers. We propose a novel stress protocol that aims to mimic everyday ...
(published as 'Daily stressors and food choices: A lab experiment with low-SES mothers' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103754)
I12, D91
12670 Christian Grund
Dirk Sliwka
Krystina Titz
Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal ...
(published in: Journal of Participation & Employee Ownership, 2020, 3, 29-50)
M54, M12, J53, J83
12669 Asbjørn Goul Andersen
Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
Local Labor Demand and Participation in Social Insurance Programs
Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary disability-insurances by examining how participation in these two program types ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101767)
J23, J58, J65, H55
12666 Farzana Afridi
Monisankar Bishnu
Kanika Mahajan
What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms
We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 55 - 87)
E24, J22, J16
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