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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11667 Philippe Ruh
Stefan Staubli
Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design
Most countries reduce Disability Insurance (DI) benefits for beneficiaries earning above a specified threshold. Such an earnings threshold generates a discontinuous increase in tax liability – a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300)
H53, H55, J14, J21
11666 Jonneke Bolhaar
Nadine Ketel
Bas van der Klaauw
Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 183, 104080)
C93, I38, J64, J08
11663 Anne Nolan
Alan Barrett
The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100201)
D14, H55, J14, J26
11662 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Mee Jung Kim
Kyung Min Lee
High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth ...
(published as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28 (6), 1637–1672)
D22, J24, L25, L26
11661 Pedro Carneiro
Kai Liu
Kjell G. Salvanes
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform
We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor in several cities in Norway, resulting from the construction of new colleges in the 1970s. We find ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (1), 48–92)
J23, J24
11660 Soham Sahoo
Stephan Klasen
Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India
This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. ...
(revised version published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (3), 987-1010)
I20, J16, J24
11659 Michela Carlana
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias
I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134 (3), 1163–1224, )
J16, J24, I24
11658 Elisabeth Artmann
Nadine Ketel
Hessel Oosterbeek
Bas van der Klaauw
Field of Study and Family Outcomes
This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of ...
(published as 'Field of study and partner choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84, 102149 )
I26, J12, J13
11657 Jared Ashworth
Tyler Ransom
Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys
This paper examines trends in the college wage premium (CWP) by birth cohort across the five major household surveys in the United States: the Census/ACS, CPS, NLSY, PSID, and SIPP. We document a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69 (1), 149 -154. )
I26, J30
11654 Niels-Hugo Blunch
My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh
Previous research has examined the incidence and correlates of contraceptive use and of several dimensions of female autonomy but only rarely the intersection of the two: female contraceptive use ...
(published in: Feminist Economicy, 2019, 25 (4), 68-93 )
D13, I12, I21
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