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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10324 Semih Tumen
Entrepreneurship in the Shadows: Wealth Constraints and Government Policy
I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2017, 25(2), 239-270)
E21, E26, L26, O17
10322 Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Couples' Retirement under Individual Pension Design: A Regression Discontinuity Study for France
Retirement policies are individually designed but the majority of people of retirement age live as couples. We estimate the effects of a French pension reform on spouses' employment decisions. We use ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 14-26)
J14, C1, C36, D04
10321 Bruno Crépon
Gerard J. van den Berg
Active Labor Market Policies
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 8 2016, 521-546)
J08, J64
10320 Zhuan Pei
Yi Shen
The Devil is in the Tails: Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable
Identification in a regression discontinuity (RD) design hinges on the discontinuity in the probability of treatment when a covariate (assignment variable) exceeds a known threshold. If the ...
(published in: Regression Discontinuity Designs (Advances in Econometrics, 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2017, 455-502 )
C10, C18
10319 Luca Paolo Merlino
Max F. Steinhardt
Liam Wren-Lewis
More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships
This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37(3), 663-713)
J12, J15, J16
10317 David A. Jaeger
Theodore J. Joyce
Robert Kaestner
Does Reality TV Induce Real Effects? On the Questionable Association Between 16 and Pregnant and Teenage Childbearing
We reassess recent and widely reported evidence that the MTV program 16 and Pregnant played a major role in reducing teen birth rates in the U.S. since it began broadcasting in 2009 (Kearney and ...
(substantially revised version published as 'A Cautionary Tale of Evaluating Identifying Assumptions: Did Reality TV Really Cause a Decline in Teenage Childbearing?' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (2), 317 - 326)
J13, L82
10316 Uwe Jirjahn
Cornelia Chadi
Risk Attitude and Nonmarital Birth
Using data of adult women from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that risk tolerance is associated with a higher probability of an out-of-partnership birth. In contrast, we find no ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics Letters, 2022, 21 (3), 7-13)
D10, J12, J13
10314 Francesco Devicienti
Elena Grinza
Alessandro Manello
Davide Vannoni
Which Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy
Using three waves of a uniquely rich survey on Italian private firms, we explore the impact of female managers on the use of part-time work. Building on a literature arguing that female leaders are ...
(published as 'What Are the Benefits of Having More Female Leaders? Evidence from the Use of Part-Time Work in Italy' in: Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2019, 72 (4), 897–926)
J23, J41, M51
10313 Anne Ardila Brenøe
Shelly Lundberg
Gender Gaps in the Effects of Childhood Family Environment: Do They Persist into Adulthood?
We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and women using high-quality administrative data on the entire population of Denmark ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 42 - 62)
I20, J1, J2, J3
10312 Shoshana Grossbard
Marriage and Marriage Markets
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, ...
(published in: S. L. Averett (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2017, 55–74 )
E2, J11, J12, J16, J22, O15, R2
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