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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11046 Jan Kabátek
David C. Ribar
Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce
Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we ...
(published as 'Daughters and Divorce' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (637), 2144 - 2170)
J12, J13, J16
11045 Daniela Piazzalunga
The Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates in Italy
The paper investigates the gender wage gap among recently graduated people, controlling for job and academic variables and for the field of study, as women lag in highly remunerative majors. The raw ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (1), 33-90)
J16, J31, J71
11043 Shuai Chen
Jan C. van Ours
Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?
Partnered individuals are happier than singles. This can be because partnership leads to more satisfactory subjective well-being or because happier people are more likely to find a partner. We ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (6), 2299-2320.)
J12
11041 Manuel Bagues
Mauro Sylos-Labini
Natalia Zinovyeva
A Walk on the Wild Side: 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (2), 462-477)
I23
11040 Amelie Schiprowski
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences
Caseworkers are the main human resource used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1189 - 1225)
J64, J65, M50
11039 Veronica Escudero
Jochen Kluve
Elva López Mourelo
Clemente Pignatti
Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis
We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (12), 2644 - 2661)
J08, J24, J46, O54
11037 Ian Gazeley
Rose Holmes
Andrew T. Newell
Kevin Reynolds
Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
Escaping from Hunger before WW1: Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) ...
(published online in: Cliometrica, 25 November 2022)
J11, J61, N30
11035 Martín Caruso Bloeck
Sebastian Galiani
Pablo Ibarrarán
Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations
This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32)
J14, N36
11034 Juliana Mesén Vargas
Bruno Van der Linden
Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints
This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level when jobless people only survive if they have access to a minimum or subsistence ...
(published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1))
D91, H21, J64, J65
11033 Florian Buhlmann
Benjamin Elsner
Andreas Peichl
Tax Refunds and Income Manipulation Evidence from the EITC
Welfare programs are important for reducing poverty but create incentives for recipients to maximize their income by either reducing labor supply or manipulating taxable income. In this paper, we ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25(6), 1490-1518)
H20, H24
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