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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12078 Olaf Hübler
The Role of Body Weight for Health, Earnings and Life Satisfaction
Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 240 (5), 653-676)
I15, I31, J16, J31
12077 D. Mark Anderson
Kerwin Kofi Charles
Daniel I. Rees
Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply to Cutler and Miller
This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler ...
(published as 'Re-Examining the Contribution of Public Health Efforts to the Decline in Urban Mortality: Reply' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 166-169.)
I15, I18
12075 Sara Paulone
Artjoms Ivlevs
Emigration and Alcohol Consumption among Migrant Household Members Staying Behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Despite the growth of alcohol consumption and international migration in many developing countries, the links between the two remain underexplored. We study the relationship between emigration of ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 221, 40-48)
F22, F24, J61, I12
12074 Francesco Pastore
Marco Pompili
Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program
This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2020, 44 (2-3), 145-184)
D04, J48
12073 Garry F. Barrett
W. Craig Riddell
Ageing and Skills: The Case of Literacy Skills
The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. ...
(published in: European Journal of Education, 2019, 54 (1), 60-71)
I20, J14, J24
12072 Johanna Sophie Quis
Anika Bela
Guido Heineck
Preschoolers' Self-Regulation, Skill Differentials, and Early Educational Outcomes
Are there skill differentials in young children's competence levels by their self-regulation abilities and do such early life differences mark the onset of increasing disparities in competence ...
(revised version published as 'Preschoolers' self-regulation and early mathematical skill differentials' in: Education Economics, 2021, 29(2), 173-193)
I21
12071 Lili Kang
Fei Peng
Yu Zhu
Returns to Higher Education Subjects and Tiers in China: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Using the recent China Family Panel Studies, we identify the subjects studied by college (2–3 years) graduates and university (4–5 years) graduates. For the university graduates, we can further ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2019, 46 (8), 1682–1695)
I23, I26
12070 Paul Anand
Jere R. Behrman
Hai-Anh H Dang
Sam Jones
Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers ...
(published as 'Decomposing Learning Inequalities in East Africa: How Much Does Sorting Matter?' in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (1), 219-243)
D6, H0, I2, O1
12068 Saibal Kar
Biswajit Mandal
Sugata Marjit
Vivekananda Mukherjee
Seeking Rent in the Informal Sector
Rent seeking within the vast informal segment of the developing world is a relatively underdexplored topic in the interface of labor market policies and public economics. Moreover, how rent seeking ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2020, 91 (1), 151-164)
D73, E26, M48
12063 Terry Gregory
Anna Salomons
Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe
A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to ...
(published as 'Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence on the Role of Trade in Europe" in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (2), 869 - 906)
E24, J23, J24, O33
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