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8140 Paolo Naticchioni
Michele Raitano
Claudia Vittori
La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy
This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, ...
(published in: Economia Politica, 2016, 33 (2), 233-264)
J24, J31
8138 Steffen Ahrens
Inske Pirschel
Dennis J. Snower
A Theory of Price Adjustment under Loss Aversion
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 78-95)
D03, D21, E31, E50
8136 Andrew E. Clark
Conchita D'Ambrosio
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208)
C91, D31, D63, I31
8135 Ghazala Azmat
Barbara Petrongolo
Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 32-40)
J16, J24, J71, C91, C92, C93
8134 L. Rachel Ngai
Barbara Petrongolo
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017, 9, 1-44)
E24, J22, J16
8131 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Alois Stutzer
Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness
Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, ...
(published in: K. Sheldon and R.E. Lucas (eds.): Stability of Happiness, 2014)
D03, D60, I31
8130 Thomas Buser
Hessel Oosterbeek
Erik Plug
Juan Ponce
José Rosero
The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As source of variation we use changes in the eligibility criteria for receipt ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808)
I14, H51, C31
8129 John H. Pencavel
The Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2052-2076)
J24, J22, N34
8128 Roy E. Bailey
Timothy J. Hatton
Kris Inwood
Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century
We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2016, 69(1), 35–53)
I12, J13, N33
8127 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Mark Wooden
What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Very little is known about how the differential treatment of sexual minorities could influence subjective reports of overall well-being. This paper seeks to fill this gap. Data from two large surveys ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Life Satisfaction and Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Australia and the United Kingdom' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 107-126)
I31, J71
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