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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16757 Ive Marx
Basic Income Advocates, Sober Up.
Basic income advocates see a universal income grant, no questions asked, as bringing many potential benefits, not in the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is ...
(published in: Sarah Marchal and Ive Marx (eds.), Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All, Oxford University Press, 2024, 207–227 )
D31, H55, I38, C81
16756 Martha J. Bailey
Tanya Byker
Elena Patel
Shanthi Ramnath
The Long-Run Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act On Women's Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and U.S. Tax Data
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (1), 401–431)
J08, J16, J71
16748 Andrea Bassanini
Eve Caroli
Kevin Geay
Antoine Rebérioux
Heavy Is the Crown: CEOs' Social Interactions and Layoff Decisions
We develop a theory of non-monetary costs incurred by CEOs when deciding about layoffs and test its predictions on French data. Our results support the idea that, being embedded in their social ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (5), 1253–1270)
J63, M12, M51, R12
16743 Olivia Healy
Jennifer A. Heissel
Baby Bumps in the Road: The Impact of Parenthood on Job Performance, Human Capital, and Career Advancement
This paper explores whether and why a maternal "child penalty" to earnings would emerge even without changes in employment and hours worked. Using a matched event study design, we trace monthly ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024)
J24, J16, J18, J45
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
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