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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
10778 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Dozie Okoye
Mutlu Yuksel
Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using ...
(revised version published as 'Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany' in Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 184-208 )
D72, D74, O12, P16, N40
10777 Orley Ashenfelter
The Hedonic Approach to Vineyard Site Selection: Adaptation to Climate Change and Grape Growing in Emerging Markets
This paper shows how the hedonic approach to vineyard site selection can be used in the adaptation of vineyard land to climate change, natural disasters or other exogenous events. The basic idea is ...
(published in: Journal of Wine Economics, 2017, 12 (1), 3 - 15)
O21, Q16, Q18
10776 Olena Y. Nizalova
Edward C. Norton
Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors
With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101038)
I12, J21, J65
10775 Shoshana Grossbard
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple ...
(published as 'Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6(1), 9.)
J22, I12, J12
10774 Milena Nikolova
Olga Popova
Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency
Despite the burgeoning happiness economics literature, scholars have largely ignored explorations of how individuals or countries translate given resources into well-being. Using a balanced panel on ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2021, 21(1), 83-114)
D60, I31, O15, P52
10773 Terhi Maczulskij
Petri Böckerman
Harsh Times: Do Stressors Lead to Labor Market Losses?
This paper examines the effects of past stressful life events on subsequent labor market success using data on twins matched to comprehensive register-based, individual-level information on income ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 20 (3), 357-373)
I31, J24, J31
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