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16543 Harrison Chang
Timothy J. Halliday
Ming-Jen Lin
Bhashkar Mazumder
Estimating Intergenerational Health Transmission in Taiwan with Administrative Health Records
We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105194)
I1, J1
16542 Alicia Sasser Modestino
Mary A. Burke
Shahriar Sadighi
Rachel Sederberg
Tomere Stern
Bledi Taska
No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially ...
(This version: February 2025.)
D22, E24, J23, J24, J63
16541 Olga Popova
Sarah Grace See
Milena Nikolova
Vladimir Otrachshenko
The Societal Costs of Inflation and Unemployment
What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million individuals from 156 countries via the Gallup World Poll spanning 2005 to 2021, ...
(revised version published under the title "Inflation, unemployment, and institutional trust: The global evidence" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025)
D12, D83, E31, E58
16540 Moritz Odersky
Max Löffler
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany
We analyze the exposure of different income groups to the 2021 floods in Germany, which serve as an exemplary case of natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22 (3), 551–576)
Q52, Q54, D30
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
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