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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
9668 Peter Norlander
Todd A. Sorensen
Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population ...
(published as '21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States' in: Migration Letters, 2018, 15 (3), 410 - 422)
J21, J61
9667 Ali Fakih
May Ibrahim
The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries: Empirical Evidence from Jordan
This paper analyzes time-sensitive data on a humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. It aims to assess the impact of the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2016, 27 (1), 64-86)
J61, H56, N45
9666 Alessandra Casarico
Giovanni Facchini
Tommaso Frattini
What Drives the Legalization of Immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
We develop a model to understand the trade-offs faced by an elected representative in supporting an amnesty when a restrictive immigration policy is in place. We show that an amnesty is more ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 70, 258-27)
F22, O51
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