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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11979 Graziella Bertocchi
Marianna Brunetti
Anzelika Zaiceva
The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads ...
(substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174)
F22, G11, D14, E21, J15
11978 Guido Friebel
Miriam Manchin
Mariapia Mendola
Giovanni Prarolo
International Migration Intentions and Illegal Costs: Evidence from Africa-to-Europe Smuggling Routes
Irregular migrants from Africa and the Middle East flow into Europe along land and sea routes under the control of human smugglers. The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the opening of the ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 148, 103878.)
K23, K42
11977 Ruchir Agarwal
Patrick Gaule
Invisible Geniuses: Could the Knowledge Frontier Advance Faster?
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we ...
(published: American Economic Review: Insights, 2020, 2 (4), 409 - 424)
O31, J24, I25
11975 Jan Feld
Nicolás Salamanca
Ulf Zölitz
Are Professors Worth It? The Value-added and Costs of Tutorial Instructors
A substantial share of university instruction happens in tutorial sessions—small group instruction given parallel to lectures. In this paper, we study whether instructors with a higher academic rank ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (3), 836-863)
I21, I24, J24
11974 Shelly Lundberg
Jenna Stearns
Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
In this paper, we first document trends in the gender composition of academic economists over the past 25 years, the extent to which these trends encompass the most elite departments, and how women's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perpectivesm 2019, 33 (1), 3 - 22)
J16, J71, J21
11973 Michela Bia
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Andrea Mercatanti
Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification
In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the ...
(published in: Observational Studies, 2022, 8 (1), 1- 44)
C21, I38, J38
11972 Luca Fumarco
Stijn Baert
Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents' Social Network
We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,, 2019, 168, 318-337.)
I21
11971 Stijn Baert
Dieter Verhaest
Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities
We investigated the impact on first hiring outcomes of two main curriculum vitae (CV) characteristics by which graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1024 - 1047)
J23, J24, I23, C93
11969 Alex Bryson
Lucy Stokes
David Wilkinson
Is Pupil Attainment Higher in Well-Managed Schools?
Linking the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys 2004 and 2011 to administrative data on pupil attainment in England we examine whether secondary and primary schools who deploy more intensive human ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (1), 129 - 144)
I21
11968 Steven W. Hemelt
Kevin Stange
Fernando Furquim
Andrew Simon
John E. Sawyer
Why is Math Cheaper than English? Understanding Cost Differences in Higher Education
The private return to postsecondary investment varies widely by field, but the resources required by different fields are not well known. This paper establishes five new facts about college costs ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39(2), 397-435)
I21, I22, I23
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