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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7585 Karthik Muralidharan
Nishith Prakash
Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350)
H42, I2, O15
7584 John V. Winters
Weineng Xu
Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors
Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2014, 45 (3), 262-276)
I23, J24, J31, R23
7583 Mark L. Bryan
Stephen P. Jenkins
Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale
Cross-national differences in outcomes are often analysed using regression analysis of multilevel country datasets, examples of which include the ECHP, ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We review ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2016, 32 (1), 3–22 )
C52, C81, O57
7582 Matloob Piracha
Teresa Randazzo
Florin Vadean
Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind
This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (2), 278 - 293)
F22, J24
7581 Kostas Mavromaras
Rong Zhu
Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67, 310–333)
J14, J21
7580 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Ursula Jaenichen
Thomas Rothe
Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, ...
(published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294)
C34, C41, J31, J62, J68
7579 Ernesto Reuben
Matthew Wiswall
Basit Zafar
Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186)
D81, D84, I21, I23, J10
7577 Wenjin Long
Simon Appleton
Lina Song
Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family ...
(Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101)
J24, J31, O15
7576 Annalisa Cristini
Almudena Sevilla
Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper undertakes a comparison exercise to disentangle what drives the opposite findings regarding the effect of house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.)
D13
7575 Anne C. Gielen
Jessica Holmes
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 30-61)
J16, J31
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