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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16742 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Anwen Zhang
The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces ...
(published as 'Human beauty illustrates the economic impact of heritable physical traits' in: PNAS, 2025, 122 (6), e24184241)
D64, D31, J71
16738 Hai-Anh H Dang
Dhushyanth Raju
Tomomi Tanaka
Kseniya Abanokova
Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17
Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, ...
(published as 'Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: An Investigation Using Synthetic Panels' in: Scientific African, 2024, 25, e02282)
C15, D31, I31, O10, O57
16737 Teresa Molina
Yoon Y. Cho
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times
When it comes to mental health, do social protection programs matter more in times of crisis? Using panel data from the Philippines around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study compares ...
(published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 21 February 2025)
I38, I31, H12
16733 Chi Shen
Xi Chen
Early Life Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) and the Health of Older Adults in China: A Meta-Analysis (2008–2023)
There is mounting evidence indicating that the aging process initiates during early life stages, with in utero the individual's environment playing a significant role. Consequently, it is crucial to ...
(published in: China CDC Weekly, 2024, 6(11), 203-207)
I14, J14, J13, I18
16731 Maciej Jakubowski
Tomasz Gajderowicz
Harry Anthony Patrinos
COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on ...
(published in: Science of Learning, 2025, 10, 5 (2025))
I19, I20
16730 Eline Moens
Dyllis De Pessemier
Stijn Baert
How Do Recruiters Assess Applicants Who Express a Political Engagement?
Although unequal treatment of workers based on political affiliation is prohibited in many countries, it is conspicuously understudied in the discrimination literature. In this study, we set up a ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 86, 102637)
D72, J21, J71, P16, C91
16728 Jonathan Portes
Unintended Consequences? The Changing Composition of Immigration to the UK after Brexit
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent the most important changes to the UK migration system in half a century. Coinciding with the aftereffects ...
(published online in: National Institute Economic Review, 06 January 2025)
F22, J48, J61, J68
16727 Uwe Jirjahn
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
This chapter reviews research on the linkages between corporate globalization and worker representation. Studies have identified various transmission channels through which the activities of foreign ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024)
F23, F66, J51, J52, J53, J83
16725 Torsten Santavirta
Jan Stuhler
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility
Recent studies use names - first and surnames - to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (663), 2982–3016)
J62
16722 Etienne Lalι
Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata
We extend Nakamura et al. (2019, 2020)'s approach of using the publicly available microdata files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2024, 50 (2), 217-231)
E24, J21, J63
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