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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
15555 Patrick Lehnert
Michael Niederberger
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Eric Bettinger
Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery: Filling Data Gaps across Time and Space
This paper develops a novel procedure for proxying economic activity with day-time satellite imagery across time periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise ...
(published in: Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus , 2023, 2 (4), pgad099 )
E01, E23, O18, R11, R14
15554 Getinet Astatike Haile
Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 653 - 673)
I31, J28, J5, L2, M5
15552 Viola Corradini
Lorenzo Lagos
Garima Sharma
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, 140 (3), 2053–2105)
J31, J33, J51, J52
15551 Richard Freund
Marta Favara
Catherine Porter
Jere R. Behrman
Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 296 - 318)
J24, I2, I1
15550 Andreu Arenas
Caterina Calsamiglia
Gender Differences in High-Stakes Performance and College Admission Policies
We investigate the effect of increasing the weight of standardized high-stakes exams at the expense of high school grades for college admissions. Studying a policy change in Spain, we find a negative ...
(forthcoming in: Management Science, 2025.)
J16, I23, I24
15549 Chunbing Xing
Xiaoyan Yuan
Junfu Zhang
City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 97, 103834)
J31, R12, R23, O15
15548 Victoria Hunter Gibney
Kristine L. West
Seth Gershenson
Blurred Boundaries: A Day in the Life of a Teacher
The burnout, stress, and work-life balance challenges faced by teachers have received renewed interest due to the myriad disruptions and changes to K-12 schooling brought about by the COVID-19 ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 51, 247-275)
I2, J22
15547 Chris M. Herbst
Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence
Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 255-304)
H75, I24, I38, J24
15546 Randall K. Q. Akee
Donn. L. Feir
Marina Mileo Gorzig
Samuel Myers Jr
Native American 'Deaths of Despair' and Economic Conditions
Non-Hispanic whites who do not have a college degree have experienced an increase in "deaths of despair" – deaths caused by suicide, drug use, and alcohol use. Yet, deaths of despair are ...
(published in: Research in Social Stratification, 2024, 89, 100880)
I14, J15, J16
15545 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Luca Stella
Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2022, 10 (4), 789-814)
A13, D64, J6, I31
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