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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10080 Daiji Kawaguchi
Ayako Kondo
Keiji Saito
Researchers' Career Transitions over the Life Cycle
Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over the life cycle. The decrease in total hours worked and the increase in time ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 190 (3), 1435-1454.)
J22, J24, J44
10079 Thomas Breda
Melina Hillion
Teaching Accreditation Exams Reveal Grading Biases Favor Women in Male-Dominated Disciplines in France
Discrimination against women is seen as one of the possible causes behind their underrepresentation in certain STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. We show that this is ...
(published in: Science Magazine, 2016, 353 (6298), 474 - 478)
I23, J16
10078 Ben Ost
Weixiang Pan
Douglas A. Webber
The Impact of Mass Layoffs on the Educational Investments of Working College Students
Analyzing how working students weather personal economic shocks is increasingly important as the fraction of college students working substantial hours has increased dramatically over the past few ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 1-12)
I21, I23, J63
10077 Pierre-Guillaume Meon
Ilan Tojerow
In God We Learn? Religions' Universal Messages, Context-Specific Effects, and Minority Status
We study the relationship between major religious denominations and individuals' levels of education, using the World Values Survey. In a first step, running country-by-country regressions, we report ...
(published as "The minority ethic: Rethinking religious denominations, minority status, and educational achievement across the globe" in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 47(1), 196-214 )
I2, O5, Z1
10076 Daniel J. Henderson
Léopold Simar
Le Wang
The Three I's of Public Schools: Irrelevant Inputs, Insufficient Resources and Inefficiency
We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using nonparametric kernel methods, we find that most traditional schooling inputs are irrelevant ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(12), 1164-1184)
C14, C44, I21
10075 Dajun Lin
Randall Lutter
Christopher J. Ruhm
Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 121 - 135)
J23, J24, J31, J38
10074 D. Mark Anderson
Ryan Brown
Kerwin Kofi Charles
Daniel I. Rees
The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Consumer Welfare: Early Midwifery Laws and Maternal Mortality
Occupational licensing is intended to protect consumers. Whether it does so is an important, but unanswered, question. Exploiting variation across states and municipalities in the timing and details ...
(published as ' Occupational Licensing and Maternal Health: Evidence from Early Midwifery Laws' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 4337-4383.)
J08, I18
10073 Sai Ding
Xiao-Yuan Dong
Margaret Maurer-Fazio
How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?
In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We ...
(published online in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (2), 77 - 99)
J14, J15, J16, J26, D13, O53
10072 Damian Clarke
Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
The Demand for Season of Birth
We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34, 707-72)
I10, J01, J13
10071 D. Mark Anderson
Sina Sandholt
Booster Seats and Traffic Fatalities among Children
In an effort to increase booster seat use among children, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is encouraging state legislators to promote stricter booster seat laws, yet there is a ...
(published as 'Are Booster Seats More Effective than Child Safety Seats or Seat Belts at Reducing Traffic Fatalities among Children?' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 5 (1), 42-64 )
I12, I18
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