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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16238 Elizabeth Brainerd
Olga Malkova
Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (4), 2309-2345)
J12, J16, J18, P2, P3
16237 Clemente Pignatti
Zachary Parolin
The Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Mental Health in the United States
Mental health conditions have worsened in many countries in recent decades. The provision of unconditional cash transfers may be one effective policy strategy for improving mental health, but causal ...
(published in: Healthl Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2253-2287)
H51, I18, J18
16236 Karen Clay
Alex Hollingsworth
Edson Severnini
The Impact of Lead Exposure on Fertility, Infant Mortality, and Infant Birth Outcomes
Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead from on-road gasoline, industrial and aviation emissions continue to pose a ...
(published in: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy; 2024, 18 (2), 301–320)
I120, Q530, Q580
16235 Alexander Ahammer
Analisa Packham
Disability Insurance Screening and Worker Outcomes
We estimate the returns to more targeted disability insurance (DI) programs in terms of labor force participation, program spillovers, and worker health. To do so, we analyze workers after a ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 101, 102986)
I38, I18, J18, J16
16230 Maria Zhu
New Evidence on the Underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Leadership Positions
For decades, Asian Americans have been characterized as a "model minority" due to perceived success in educational attainment and labor market outcomes. However, there are concerns that Asians remain ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106679)
J01, J15
16229 Karen Clay
Joshua Lewis
Edson Severnini
The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2024, 107, 103951)
N52, N72, O13, Q53, Q56
16227 Stefania Albanesi
António Dias da Silva
Juan F. Jimeno
Ana Lamo
Alena Wabitsch
New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2025, 40 (121), 71–139)
J23, O33
16225 Luca Flabbi
Mauricio Tejada
Are Informal Self-Employment and Informal Employment as Employee Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?
The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 231, 111278, October)
J46, J64, O17
16223 Simen Markussen
Knut Rřed
The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance
We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings rank and offspring's educational performance rank by age 15/16. We show that the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, article 102491)
I24, J62
16222 Narcisse Cha’Ngom
Christoph Deuster
Frédéric Docquier
Joël Machado
Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2025, 66 (4), 1713-1732.)
J61, O15, E24, J24
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