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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8916 Jiaxiu He
Haoming Liu
Alberto Salvo
Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output at two manufacturing sites located in different industrial towns in China. Ambient air pollution in both towns, as proxied alternatively by ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 173–201)
J24, Q51, Q52, Q53, O44, R11
8915 Alan I. Barreca
Karen Clay
Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone
Joseph S. Shapiro
Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (1), 105–159)
I18, J10, Q54
8914 Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
George W. Ward
Femke De Keulenaer
Bert van Landeghem
Georgios Kavetsos
Michael I. Norton
The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 362–375)
D03, O11, D69, I39
8912 Maite Blázquez Cuesta
Santiago Budría
The Effects of Over-Indebtedness on Individual Health
This paper uses data from the 2002-2005-2008 waves of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) to investigate whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española, 2018, 227, 103-131.)
G01, I13, I22
8911 Peng Nie
Steffen Otterbach
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Long Work Hours and Health in China
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 33, 212-229)
I10, I12, J22, J81
8910 Andrea Bassanini
Giorgio Brunello
Eve Caroli
Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 429-483)
J23, J63, M51, R12
8909 Wolter Hassink
Roberto M. Fernandez
Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?
We investigate a unique setting which enables us to distinguish between two theories of work performance. A standard labor supply framework implies a negative effect of the non-pecuniary cost of work ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839)
J24, J31, M52
8908 Terence Chai Cheng
Joan Costa-Font
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4 (1), 26-50)
H42, I11, D1
8907 Kyle Rozema
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that ...
(published as 'Taxing Consumption and the Take-Up of Public Assistance: The Case of Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamps' in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (1), 1-27.)
L66, H21, H23, H26, H71, I18
8905 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Petter Lundborg
Kaveh Majlesi
Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2018, 22 (3), 951-975)
I26, G11
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