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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8793 Hielke Buddelmeyer
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Mark Wooden
The Stress Cost of Children
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 148 - 161)
J13, J20
8792 Javier E. Baez
Leonardo Lucchetti
Maria Eugenia Genoni
Mateo Salazar
Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala
This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (8), 1253 - 1271)
I3, J2, O1
8791 Stephen Broadberry
Sayantan Ghosal
Eugenio Proto
Anonymity, Efficiency Wages and Technological Progress
Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper models and analyzes such ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 127 (C), 379-394.)
N13, O14, O43
8789 Joseph S. Shapiro
Reed Walker
Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences
Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (12), 3814–3854)
F18, F64, H23, Q56
8787 Patrick A. Puhani
Falko Tabbert
Effects of Changes in Pensions on the Age of First Benefit Receipt: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Repatriated Ethnic Germans
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38, 12 - 23)
J26, H55
8786 Herwig Immervoll
Stephen P. Jenkins
Sebastian Königs
Are Recipients of Social Assistance 'Benefit Dependent'? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries
Means-tested Social Assistance (SA) benefits play an important role as social protection floors supporting households in financial difficulties. This paper presents evidence on the patterns of SA ...
(published in parts in: International Journal of Social Welfare, 2018, 27 (2), 146-156)
I38, J60, J64, C23
8784 Henry S Farber
Jesse Rothstein
Robert G. Valletta
The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Evidence from the 2012-2013 Phase-Out
Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most recipients. The extensions were rolled back and eventually terminated by the end of 2013. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 171 - 176)
J64, J65
8782 Peter Nijkamp
Jacques Poot
Cultural Diversity: A Matter of Measurement
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and ...
(published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot and J. Bakens (eds.), The Economics of Cultural Diversity, Edward Elgar, 2015)
C00, D63, J15, R23, Z13
8780 Kristiina Huttunen
Jarle Moen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Job Loss and Regional Mobility
It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (2), 479 - 509)
J61, J63
8778 Francesc Ortega
Ryuichi Tanaka
Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives
This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country, emphasizing the political economy implications. In particular, we are interested on ...
(published as 'Immigration and the political economy of public education' in: G. Freeman and N, Mirilovic (eds.), Handbook of Migration and Social Policy. Elgar, 2016, 121–136 )
D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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