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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7268 Abel Brodeur
Mathias Lé
Marc Sangnier
Yanos Zylberberg
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32)
A11, B41, C13, C44
7266 Bart Cockx
Corinna Ghirelli
Bruno Van der Linden
Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI ...
(revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95 )
D60, D90, J64, J65, J68
7265 Johannes Binswanger
Martin Salm
Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding
We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities ...
(revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85 )
D03, D81, D84, G11
7263 William H. Rogers
Anne E. Winkler
The Relationship between the Housing & Labor Market Crises and Doubling-Up: An MSA-Level Analysis, 2005-2010
It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. ...
(Published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2013)
R23, J12
7262 Stijn Baert
Bart Cockx
Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294)
C35, J15, J70
7261 Casey Boyd-Swan
Chris M. Herbst
John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness
This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, 18-38)
I1, J00
7260 Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?
Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 702-729 )
J68, J21, P52, O57
7259 Christine Binzel
Jean-Paul Carvalho
Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580)
D10, D63, I24, J24, J62, O10, Z12, Z13
7257 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Lene Kromann
An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes
Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second-generation immigrants have the same job-offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes ...
(published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16)
J15, J61, J71
7256 Abel Brodeur
Sarah Flèche
Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and ...
(published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238)
C25, D00, J31
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