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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16304 Veronica Frisancho
Alejandro Herrera
Silvia Prina
Can a Mobile-App-Based Behavioral Intervention Teach Financial Skills to Youth? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Diaries Study
We study the impact of a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention on youth's financial literacy and financial behavior. To maximize the chances to reach out-of-school youth, we provided access to a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 595- 614)
C93, D90, G41, G53, O12, O16
16303 Margherita Comola
Silvia Prina
The Interplay among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper studies how formal financial access affects network-based financial arrangements. We use a field experiment that granted access to a savings account to a random subset of households in 19 ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649), 516 - 535)
C93, D14, G21, O16, O17
16302 Catalina Herrera-Almanza
Fernanda Marquez-Padilla
Silvia Prina
C-Sections, Obesity, and Health-Care Specialization: Evidence from Mexico
This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (1), 139 - 160)
I11, I18, J13, D22
16301 Niklas Elert
Magnus Henrekson
The Profit Motive in the Classroom - Friend or Foe?
Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity ...
(published in: Journal of School Choice, 2024, 19 (1), 163–186)
H42, H44, H75, I22, I28, L88, O31
16300 Mette Gřrtz
Miriam Gensowski
The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 97, 102911)
I14, I12, I24, I31
16299 Mindy Marks
Silvia Prina
Redina Tahaj
Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Timing of Transfer Payments: Evidence from the SNAP Program
We study the effect of the timing of SNAP payments on weekly labor supply using data from the CPS. We rely on exogenous variation in the fielding of CPS interviews relative to benefit receipt to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646)
J22, I38
16298 Timothy J. Hatton
The Political Economy of Assisted Immigration: Australia 1860-1913
From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a variety of assisted passages. The colonies/states shared a common culture and sought ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 92, 101565)
F22, N37, N47
16296 Tijan L. Bah
Catia Batista
Flore Gubert
David McKenzie
Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?
Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 165, 103153.)
O15, F22, J61
16293 Margarita Leib
Nils Köbis
Rainer Michael Rilke
Marloes Hagens
Bernd Irlenbusch
Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty
Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (658), 766 - 784)
C91, D90, D91
16291 Stefan Bauernschuster
Matthias Blum
Erik Hornung
Christoph Koenig
The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893–1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2025, 96, 101648.)
D72, I18, N34, H51
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