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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9119 Massimo Anelli
Giovanni Peri
Peers' Composition Effects in the Short and in the Long Run: College Major, College Performance and Income
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 553-602)
I21, J16, J24, J31, Z13
9118 Monique de Haan
Pieter A. Gautier
Hessel Oosterbeek
Bas van der Klaauw
The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice
Theory points to a potential trade-off between two main school assignment mechanisms; Boston and Deferred Acceptance (DA). While DA is strategy-proof and gives a stable matching, Boston might ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 388 - 455)
C83, D47, I20
9117 Regina T. Riphahn
Caroline Schwientek
What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany
We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (53), 5748-5775)
I21, J16
9116 Lingguo Cheng
Hong Liu
Ye Zhang
Zhong Zhao
The Heterogeneous Impact of Pension Income on Elderly Living Arrangements: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(1), 155-192 )
J12, H55, I38
9115 Muriel Dejemeppe
Catherine Smith
Bruno Van der Linden
Did the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact Increase the Employment Rate of Older Workers in Belgium? A Macro-Econometric Evaluation
In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4 (17))
J21, J26, H53, E32
9113 Andreas Bernecker
Pierre C. Boyer
Christina Gathmann
Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation during the U.S. Welfare Reform
We study the political economy of policy innovations during the U.S. welfare reform in 1996. Specifically, we investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (2), 26-57)
I38, H11, H77, D78, D83
9110 Tor Eriksson
Lei Mao
Marie Claire Villeval
Saving Face and Group Identity
Are people willing to sacrifice resources to save one's and others' face? In a laboratory experiment, we study whether individuals forego resources to avoid the public exposure of the least performer ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20 (3), 622-647)
C92, D03, M52, Z13
9109 Mirko Draca
Theodore Koutmeridis
Stephen Machin
The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?
In economic models of crime individuals respond to changes in the potential value of criminal opportunities. We analyse this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86, 1228–57 )
K42
9108 Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Lucia Mýtna Kureková
How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71 (2), 213-243 )
J15, J24, J61, J68
9107 Eric D. Gould
Explaining the Unexplained: Residual Wage Inequality, Manufacturing Decline, and Low-Skilled Immigration
This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and the influx of low-skilled immigrants. There is a vast literature arguing that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (619), 1281–1326)
J31
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