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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10722 Marion Collewet
Jan Sauermann
Working Hours and Productivity
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 96-106)
J23, J22, M12, M54
10721 Ravi Kanbur
Andy Snell
Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness
Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures from equality of outcomes, for egalitarian social welfare functions defined on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (621), 2216 - 2239)
A10, A13, C01, C12, D63
10719 Stephane Mahuteau
Kostas Mavromaras
Sue Richardson
Rong Zhu
Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2017, 93, s105–s121)
J31, J45
10718 Manuel Fernandez Sierra
Julián Messina
Skill Premium, Labor Supply and Changes in the Structure of Wages in Latin America
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, 555-573)
E24, J20, J31
10717 Ganna Pogrebna
Andrew J. Oswald
David Haig
Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 10 - 17)
J16, C93, C90, D81
10715 Malte Sandner
Thomas Cornelissen
Tanja Jungmann
Peggy Herrmann
Evaluating the Effects of a Targeted Home Visiting Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health outcomes. Our analysis exploits a randomized controlled trial and combines rich ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 269 - 283)
I14
10714 Kasey Buckles
Maternal Socio-Economic Status and the Well-Being of the Next Generation(s)
A rich literature in economics and the social sciences has shown that improvements in women's socio-economic status (SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, 2018 )
I14, I24, I3, J1
10713 Benedikt Gerst
Christian Grund
Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender
This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878)
M52, J31, J33, J71
10710 Leonardo Becchetti
Vittorio Pelligra
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049)
C91, D64, H00
10709 Erez Siniver
Yossef Tobol
Gideon Yaniv
Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96)
A22, C91, C92, K42
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