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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10788 Takao Kato
Naomi Kodama
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018)
J16, M5, J7, M14
10787 Mahdi Majbouri
Sir! I'd Rather Go to School, Sir!
Military service is a popular method of army recruitment for governments of developing countries that are particularly prone to conflict. This study contributes to the largely under-researched issues ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change)
I23, J47, I26, N35
10786 Seamus McGuinness
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Paul Redmond
How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?
The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill ...
(revised version published as 'Skills mismatch: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Approaches' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32 (4), 985-1085)
J24, I20, I28
10785 Xiaodong Gong
The Dynamics of Study-Work Choice and Its Effect on Intended and Actual University Attainment
We study the dynamics of study-work choices of Australian high school students and how these choices affect intended and actual enrolment in universities when they finish their school education. A ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 619 - 639)
I21, C33
10784 Nicholas Wilson
Todd Pugatch
Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 151 - 161)
D83, I23
10783 Erik O. Kimbrough
Andrew McGee
Hitoshi Shigeoka
How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely depends on classroom composition in terms of peers' ability. Unfortunately, little ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.)
I24, C91, I28
10782 Philipp Vom Berge
Hanna Frings
High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 701-729.)
J31, J38
10781 Florian Engl
Arno Riedl
Roberto A. Weber
Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 261 - 299)
C92, D02, D72, H41
10780 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Nishith Prakash
Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India
In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 185, 171-178)
H41, I15, J16, O12
10779 Mark Borgschulte
Jacob Vogler
Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians
We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural lifespan. In contrast to previous findings of shortened lifespan among US presidents ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 167, 18 - 32)
I10, M12, J14
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