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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10794 Mitchell Hoffman
Stephen V. Burks
Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11(1), 315-348)
J24, D03, M53, J41
10792 Antonio Filippin
Francesca Gioia
Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes
This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94)
C81, C91, D81
10790 Maria Knoth Humlum
Anne Brink Nandrup
Nina Smith
Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice
Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500)
I23, J16, J24
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
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