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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11534 Olivier B. Bargain
Delphine Boutin
Hugues Champeaux
Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379)
J12, J16, D74, I14
11533 Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Daniel Kühnle
Regina T. Riphahn
Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 182 - 197)
J12, J13, J18, I30
11532 Quentin Lippmann
Claudia Senik
Math, Girls and Socialism
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.)
I2, J16, J24, P36, Z13
11531 Soohyung Lee
Chiara Orsini
Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes
We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (7), 1044-1063)
H0, I1, J1
11528 Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn
Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this ...
(published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1), 1-17)
N00, Z10, Z13
11527 Gregory Verdugo
Sorana Toma
Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828)
J15, R31
11524 Sankar Mukhopadhyay
Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970)
J15, I20, Z13
11523 Takao Kato
Antti Kauhanen
Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2018, 1 (1), 61-73 )
M52, J33, J24, J53, O53
11522 Rolf Aaberge
Anthony B. Atkinson
Sebastian Königs
From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (2), 295–320.)
C14, D31, D33
11521 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Sherry Xin Li
Swati Sharma
Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445)
C93, D20, D22, D24, J33
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