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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
12295 Christina A. Houseworth
Barry R. Chiswick
Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1-25)
J12, J15, J16, J24
12294 Etienne Lalé
Search and Multiple Jobholding
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a ...
(published in: Economic Theory, 2025, 80, 891-939.)
E24, J21, J62
12293 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33 (2), 3 - 30)
J23, J24
12292 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo
The Wrong Kind of AI? Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Labor Demand
Artificial Intelligence is set to influence every aspect of our lives, not least the way production is organized. AI, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2020, 13 (1), 25 - 35)
J23, J24
12291 Egidio Farina
Colin P. Green
Duncan McVicar
Zero Hours Contracts and Their Growth
This paper studies the prevalence and nature of zero-hours contracts (ZHCs) in the UK labour market. The headline count of ZHC workers based on the Labour Force Survey has long underestimated and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58(3), 507-531)
J21, J48, M55
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