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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9680 Mark Borgschulte
Paco Martorell
Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 101-127)
J30, J60, J65
9679 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Abhishek Chakravarty
Selim Gulesci
The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102413)
I14, J16, O12
9677 Richard V. Burkhauser
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World
The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 246-257)
D63, I3
9675 Rik Dillingh
Peter Kooreman
Jan Potters
Tattoos, Life Style and the Labor Market
Placing a tattoo is a choice with potentially significant and long-lasting social and economic consequences. In this study we look at the factors determining the decision to place a tattoo and ...
(published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (2), 191-214)
J10, J20
9674 Armin Falk
Anke Becker
Thomas Dohmen
David B. Huffman
Uwe Sunde
The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences – risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity – in a reliable, ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195)
C81, C83, C90
9673 David L. Dickinson
Todd McElroy
Sleep Restriction and Time?of?Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and well-functioning societies. Neuroscience research has shown that high-level ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep restriction and circadian effects on social decisions' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 57 - 71)
C7, C9
9672 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the ...
(published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453 )
A13, C43, F66, J15, J16, J21, J42, N30, Z12
9671 Murat Iyigun
Jeanne Lafortune
Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose ...
(published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289)
J12, J11, N32
9670 Eve Caroli
Lexane Weber-Baghdiguian
Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first ...
(published in Social Science & Medicine, 153, 220-229, 2016)
I12, I19, J16
9669 Michael Jetter
Jay K. Walker
Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender ...
(published as 'The gender of opponents: Explaining gender differences in performance and risk-taking' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 238 - 256)
D03, J10, J16
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