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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9935 Kusum Mundra
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Single and Investing: Homeownership Trends among the Never Married
In recent years, singles have begun to take on a more prominent role in reshaping America. As a group, singles are increasingly becoming influential in politics and in the determination of many macro ...
(published in: Housing Studies, 2019, 34 (1), 162-187)
J10, J11, D10
9931 Daniela Piazzalunga
Maria Laura Di Tommaso
The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 171–193)
J31, J71, J16, J45
9930 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Abhishek Chakravarty
Dilip Mookherjee
Francisco J. Pino
Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237)
I14, I24, J71, O15
9929 Miles Corak
Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison
To understand the degree of intergenerational mobility in the United States, and the differences between Americans and others, it is important to appreciate the workings and interaction of three ...
(published in: Robert Rycroft (editor). The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 )
J62, J68
9928 Wolfgang Frimmel
Martin Halla
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105201)
J12, D13, J13, J24
9927 Cheti Nicoletti
Kjell G. Salvanes
Emma Tominey
The Family Peer Effect on Mothers' Labour Supply
The documented historical rise in female labour force participation has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first ...
(published in: American Economics Journal: Applied Economics; 2018, 10 (3), 206 - 234)
D85, C21, C26
9926 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Edgar Silva Quintero
How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia
In this paper, we analyze how forced displacements caused by violent conflicts affect the wages of displaced workers in Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent ...
(published as 'On the relationship between violent conflict and wages in Colombia' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (4), 473-489)
J15, J31, R23
9925 Salvatore Di Falco
Brice Magdalou
David Masclet
Marie Claire Villeval
Marc Willinger
Can Transparency of Information Reduce Embezzlement? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Embezzlement is a major concern in various settings. By means of a sequential modified dictator game, we investigate theoretically and experimentally whether making information more transparent and ...
(revised version published as 'Embezzlement: Does transparency of information matter?' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2020, 7 (2), 103-143)
C91, D83
9924 Farzana Afridi
Bidisha Barooah
Rohini Somanathan
The Mixture as Before? Student Responses to the Changing Content of School Meals in India
We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India's school meal program. Municipal schools in the capital region of Delhi switched from ...
(published as 'Designing Effective Transfers: Lessons from India's School Meal Program' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (1), 45-61)
D1, E31, F01
9920 Tyler Ransom
John V. Winters
Do Foreigners Crowd Natives out of STEM Degrees and Occupations? Evidence from the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990
This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree completion and labor market outcomes for native-born Americans. The ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (2), 321–351)
J24, J61
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