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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16539 Luna Bellani
Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo
Educate Some to Represent Many? Education and Female Political Representation in Europe
Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of women's education on political representation focusing on several ...
(revised version published as 'Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 104, 102605)
H52, I21, I23, J24, J31
16537 Eliana Carranza
David McKenzie
Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries
Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 38 (1), 221–244)
J22, J23, J24, J64, M53, O12, O15
16536 Giorgio Brunello
Eiji Yamamura
Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying ...
(forthcoming in: Asian Economic Journal)
J40, J71
16532 Climent Quintana-Domeque
Jingya Zeng
COVID-19 and Mental Health: Natural Experiments of the Costs of Lockdowns
The COVID 19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the world, affecting not only physical health and the economy but also mental well being. This chapter provides an investigation of the causal link ...
(revised version published online in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 27 February 2024)
I1, J1
16530 Munseob Lee
Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (665), 3333–3359)
O11, O13, O47
16529 Tristany Armangué-Jubert
Nezih Guner
Alessandro Ruggieri
Labor Market Power and Development
Imperfect competition in labor markets can lead to efficiency losses and lower aggregate output. In this paper, we study whether differences in competitiveness of labor markets can help explain ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2025, 7 (2), 177–195)
J42, L13, O11, E24
16528 Amanda Agan
Andrew Garin
Dmitri Koustas
Alexandre Mas
Crystal S. Yang
Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions
We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 6 (3), 341–358)
J0, K0
16527 Peter Dungan
Tony Fang
Morley Gunderson
Steve Murphy
Macroeconomic Impacts of Immigration in the Canadian Atlantic Region: An Empirical Analysis Using the Focus Model
We simulate the impact of an increase in immigration into the Atlantic provinces based on the FOCUS macro-econometric model at the University of Toronto. That national model was adapted to reflect ...
(published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies, 11 June 2024)
J11, J15, J18, J24
16526 José Mesquita
João Pereira dos Santos
José Tavares
European Funds and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper analyses the impact of European Union (EU) funds on the performance of private firms. In particular, we examine a quasi-natural experiment consisting of a redrawing of administrative areas ...
(published online in: Small Business Economics, 02 June 2025)
C21, R10
16525 Hashibul Hassan
Asadul Islam
Abu Siddique
Liang Choon Wang
Telementoring and Homeschooling during School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh
Using a randomized experiment in 200 Bangladeshi villages, we evaluate the impact of an over-the-phone learning support intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (622), 2418–2438)
C93, I21, I24
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