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12306 Laura Hospido
Luc Laeven
Ana Lamo
The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (5), 981 - 996)
J16, J31, J41, J63
12305 Sebastian Butschek
Jan Sauermann
The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection
To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms' worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 09 May 2022)
M51, D22, J24, J38
12304 Octave De Brouwer
Elisabeth Leduc
Ilan Tojerow
The Unexpected Consequences of Job Search Monitoring: Disability Instead of Employment?
This paper investigates how the implementation of Job Search Monitoring (JSM) programs over the last two decades could have impacted the rise of disability rates in OECD countries. To do so, we use ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 224, 104929)
I13, J64
12303 Douglas L. Kruse
Joseph Blasi
Dan Weltmann
Saehee Kang
Jung Ook Kim
William Castellano
Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?
A major theoretical objection against employee ownership is that workers become inadequately diversified and exposed to excessive financial risk. Recent theory concludes that 10-15% of a worker's ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (3), 716 - 740)
J32, J33, J54, D31, P13
12302 Marco Colagrossi
Beatrice d'Hombres
Sylke V. Schnepf
Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103600)
J62, I24
12301 Irene Mosca
Robert E. Wright
The Long-Term Consequences of the Irish Marriage Bar
A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. Ireland had a Marriage Bar in place until the 1970s. In 2014/2015, women participating in the The ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (1), 1-34)
J71, J78, J24
12300 Adrian Adermon
Mikael Lindahl
Mårten Palme
Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (5), 1523-48)
I24, J62
12298 M. Paula Cacault
Christian Hildebrand
Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti
Michele Pellizzari
Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) students use the live ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (4), 2322 - 2372)
I20, I21, I23, I26
12297 Ramiro de Elejalde
Eugenio Giolito
More Hospital Choices, More C-Sections: Evidence from Chile
In this paper, we study the effect on cesarean rates of a policy change in Chile that decreased the cost of delivery at private hospitals for women with public health insurance. Using a ...
(revised version published as "A demand-smoothing incentive for cesarean deliveries" in: Journal of Health Economics 2021, 75, 102411)
I11, I13, I18
12296 Olivier Deschenes
Huixia Wang
Si Wang
Peng Zhang
The Effect of Air Pollution on Body Weight and Obesity: Evidence from China
We provide the first study estimating the causal effect of air pollution on body weight. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey, which provides detailed longitudinal health and socioeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102461)
I12, I15, Q53
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