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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
10070 Effrosyni Adamopoulou
Ezgi Kaya
Young Adults Living with Their Parents and the Influence of Peers
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the ...
(published in: The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 689-713)
D10, J12, J60, Z13
10069 Jordan Glatt
Phanindra V. Wunnava
Help Not Wanted: The Dismal Science of Youth Unemployment's Scarring Effect
The scarring effect is defined as an increase in the probability of future unemployment spells and the reduction of subsequent wages as the result of joblessness early in one's working years. Many ...
(published in: iBusiness, 2018, 10, 51-84 )
J24, J31, J64, I21
10068 Michèle Belot
Philipp Kircher
Paul Muller
Providing Advice to Job Seekers at Low Cost: An Experimental Study on Online Advice
We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that redesigns the job search process by providing tailored advice at low cost. We invited job seekers to our computer facilities for 12 ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (4), 1411-1447)
D83, J62, C93
10066 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations: Evidence from the Housing Sector
Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (339), 407 - 427)
E24, J20, J44
10065 Kelvin Seah
The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled
This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116)
I21, J15
10063 Asadul Islam
Steven Stillman
Christopher Worswick
Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?
The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine ...
(published in. Applied Economics, 2018, 50, 5302 - 5315)
J65, I31, J15
10062 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans
Numerous studies find that U.S.-born Hispanics differ significantly from non-Hispanic whites on important measures of human capital, including health. Nevertheless, almost all studies rely on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 467-471)
J15, J12, I14
10061 Etienne Lalé
Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers
This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the employment experience of older male workers during the past half-century. We build ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 735-784.)
E24, J21, J64
10060 Mercedes Ayuso
Jorge Miguel Bravo
Robert Holzmann
On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes
Heterogeneity in longevity between socioeconomic groups is increasingly documented for developed economies and is reviewed in the paper. Heterogeneity in life expectancy disaggregated by main ...
(published in: Global Journal of Human Social Sciences-Economics, 2017, 17 (1), 33-58)
D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
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