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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12657 Nikos Theodoropoulos
John Forth
Alex Bryson
Are Women Doing It For Themselves? Gender Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap
Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1329-1355)
J16, J31, M52, M54
12654 Yan Liu
Xi Chen
Zhijun Yan
Depression in the House: The Effects of Household Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use in China
While adverse health effects of ambient air pollution have been well documented, there is scarce evidence on the impact of household air pollution (HAP) on mental health. We investigated the causal ...
(published as 'Depression in the house: The effects of household air pollution from solid fuel use among the middle-aged and older population in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 703, 134706)
I31, Q51, Q53
12652 Patricio Dominguez-Rivera
Magnus Lofstrom
Steven Raphael
The Effect of Sentencing Reform on Crime Rates: Evidence from California's Proposition 47
We evaluate whether California's state proposition 47 impacted state violent and property crime rates. Passed by the voters in November 2014, the proposition redefined many less serious property and ...
(published as 'Decarceration and Crime: California’s Experience' in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar, 2022, 83 - 134)
K40, K42, H11
12651 David N.F. Bell
Robert A. Hart
The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline ...
(revised version published as 'The Decline of Paid Overtime in Britain' in: Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 2, 235-258 )
J21, J22, J31, J52
12649 Wang-Sheng Lee
Ben G. Li
Extreme Weather and Long-term Health: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites
Modern technology empowers human beings to cope with various extreme weather events. Using Chinese historical data, we examine the impact of extreme weather on long-term human health in an ...
(published as 'Extreme Weather and Mortality: Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, 102401.)
I15, N35
12648 Elizabeth Dhuey
Jean Eid
Christine Neill
Parental Employment Effects of Switching from Half‐Day to Full‐Day Kindergarten: Evidence from Ontario's French Schools
Full-day kindergarten programs are expanding across North America, driven by a policy focus on early childhood development. These programs also affect parents' budget sets and may lead to changes in ...
(published in: Candadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politique, 2020, 46 (1), 145 - 174)
I28
12647 Michael Johannes Böhm
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Felix Schran
Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (1), 201–243)
J21, J23, J24, J31
12646 Andrea Kutinova Menclova
Steven Stillman
Maternal Stress and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from an Unexpected Earthquake Swarm
We examine the impact of a major earthquake that unexpectedly affected the Canterbury region of New Zealand on a wide-range of birth outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age and an indicator ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2020, 29 (12), 1705 - 1720)
I12, J13, I31
12645 Eric Maurin
Nicolas Navarrete H.
Behind the Veil: The Effect of Banning the Islamic Veil in Schools
Immigration from Muslim countries is a source of tensions in many Western countries. Several countries have adopted regulations restricting religious expression and emphasizing the neutrality of the ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (113), 63-98)
I21, J15
12644 Michel Serafinelli
Guido Tabellini
Creativity over Time and Space
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of ...
(published as 'Creativity over time and space: A historical analysis of European cities' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2022, 27, 1-43)
R10, O10, J61, J24
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