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15456 Massimiliano Bratti
Enrico Lippo
COVID-19 and the Gender Gap in University Student Performance
The gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been observed in many domains, such as labor market outcomes and mental health. One sector that was particularly disrupted by the pandemic was ...
(revised version published as: 'Effects of COVID-19 on Gender Gaps in Educational Outcomes of College Students in Italy' in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar, 2015, 365–381 )
I21, I23
15455 Sam Hoey
Thomas Peeters
Jan C. van Ours
The Impact of Absent Coworkers on Productivity in Teams
We study how workers in production teams are affected by the temporary absence and replacement of a coworker. When a substitute coworker is absent, the remaining coworkers produce less output per ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 83, 102400)
M50, M54, J24
15454 Lamont Bo Yu
Trang My Tran
Wang-Sheng Lee
Revitalising the Silk Road: Evidence from Railway Infrastructure Investments in Northwest China
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102076)
O22, R11, R58
15453 Teresa Molina
Emiko Usui
Female Labor Market Opportunities and Gender Gaps in Aspirations
Aspirations and plans for the future can influence investments made today. Gender gaps in these views can perpetuate gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how gender gaps in aspirations ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 211, 165-187)
J16, I24, J13
15451 John V. Winters
No Place like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science
Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education ...
(published in: Review of Regional Studies, 2022, 52, 159–175)
R10, R23, J61
15450 Dolores Collado
Ignacio Ortuño Ortín
Jan Stuhler
Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (3), 1195 - 1227)
J62
15449 Saten Kumar
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Olivier Coibion
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Firm Decisions
Using a new survey of firms in New Zealand, we document how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by firms affects their economic decisions. We use randomized information ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2023, 91 (4), 1297-1332)
E3, E4, E5
15448 Olivier Deschenes
The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (3), 1227-1249)
I1, Q4, Q5, Q54
15445 Robert W. Fairlie
Frank M. Fossen
Reid Johnsen
Gentian Droboniku
Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 1613-1629)
L26, H25, I18
15444 Uwe Jirjahn
Thi Xuan Thu Le
Political Spillovers of Workplace Democracy in Germany
While works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their consequences has been dominated by economic aspects. This study brings a new perspective to ...
(revised version published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024, 95 (1), 5-31)
J51, J52, J53, J58
15441 Gabriel Chodick
Yoav Goldstein
Ity Shurtz
Dan Zeltzer
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
We examine how physician decisions are impacted by difficult cases—encounters with newly diagnosed cancer patients. Using detailed administrative data, we compare primary care physicians' decisions ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 15 March 2023)
I1, D91
15440 Emanuele Brancati
Michele Di Maio
Aminur Rahman
Finance, Informal Competition, and Expectations: A Firm-Level Analysis
This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show that formal firms that are more exposed to the competition of informal firms are ...
(published in: World Development, 2024, 173, 106408)
O16, E26, D84, D22
15439 Bart Cockx
Koen Declercq
Muriel Dejemeppe
Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 95, 102424)
H52, I21, I26, I28, J08, J18, J24, J65, J68
15438 Marco Lambrecht
Eugenio Proto
Aldo Rustichini
Andis Sofianos
Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
We investigate in a laboratory setting whether revealing information on the intelligence of both players affects behavior in repeated games. We study the Prisoners' Dilemma (PD) and Battle of Sexes ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 199–231)
C73, C91, C92, D83
15436 Sulagna Mookerjee
John D. Pedersen
David Slichter
Time Use and the Geography of Economic Opportunity
The community in which a child is raised has a substantial effect on their income in adulthood. To help understand what is different about communities which produce higher incomes, we document how ...
(published in: Hamermesh, D.S. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Time Use in Economics (Research in Labor Economics, 51), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 89-104)
D13, J22, J24, J62
15435 Greta Morando
Lucinda Platt
The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children
The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 356, 908-946)
J13, J24, I21, I24
15433 Matteo Picchio
Michele Ubaldi
Unemployment and Health: A Meta-Analysis
This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 study results coming from 65 articles published in peer-reviewed journals between ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (4), 1437-1472)
C52, I10, I12, J64
15428 David L. Dickinson
Political Ideology, Mood Response, and the Confirmation Bias
The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive discomfort. Hearing rival viewpoints or belief-opposing information creates ...
(published as 'Political ideology, emotion response, and confirmation bias' in: Economic Inquiry, 2025, 63 (1), 181-205)
C91, D91, D89
15427 Denni Tommasi
Lina Zhang
Identifying Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
In cases of non-compliance with a prescribed treatment, estimates of causal effects typically rely on instrumental variables. However, when participation is also misreported, this approach can be ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1123-1148)
C14, C21, C26, C35, C51
15425 Onur Altindag
Theodore J. Joyce
Another Day, Another Visit: Impact of Arkansas' Mandatory Waiting Period for Women Seeking an Abortion by Demographic Groups
Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 213, 104715)
I11, I12, I18, J13, K23
15423 Hongbin Li
Lei Li
Hong Ma
China's Skill-Biased Imports
China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 74, 101809)
F16, J20, J31, O33
15421 Mikkel Aagaard Houmark
Cecilie Marie Løchte Jørgensen
Ida Lykke Kristiansen
Miriam Gensowski
Effects of Extending Paid Parental Leave on Children's Socio-Emotional Skills and Well-Being in Adolescence
We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid ...
(publishled in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104880)
J13, J18, J24, I31
15417 François Rycx
Giulia Santosuosso
Guillaume Vermeylen
The Over-Education Wage Penalty among PhD Holders: A European Perspective
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2025, 33 (1), 53-75)
J21, J24
15413 Nick Drydakis
M-Health Apps and Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Sexual Minorities
Given the assigned health inequalities faced by sexual minorities, it is fitting to assess whether m-health could be associated with better health-related outcomes for these sexual minorities. The ...
(published in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2023, 70 (14), 3421-3448 )
I1, I14, O3
15407 Jan Kabátek
Ying Liang
Kun Zheng
Are Shorter Cumulative Temporary Contracts Worse Stepping Stones? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Temporary employment contracts are often regarded as 'stepping stones' for workers' careers, because they can help inexperienced workers secure a permanent contract. Our study evaluates whether this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102427)
J28, J41, J42
15404 Stephen R. G. Jones
Fabian Lange
W. Craig Riddell
Casey Warman
The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 791-838)
E24, E32, I3, I14, I18, J21, J23, J31, J63
15403 Alessio Gaggero
Joan Gil
Dolores Jiménez-Rubio
Eugenio Zucchelli
Sick and Depressed? The Causal Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis on Depression
There is sparse evidence on the impact of health information on mental health as well as on the mechanisms governing this relationship. We estimate the causal impact of health information on mental ...
(published in: Health Economics Review, 2023, 13, Article 38 (2023))
C21, I10, I12
15401 Antonia Asenjo
Veronica Escudero
Hannah Liepmann
Why Should We Integrate Income and Employment Support? A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation
The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes – such as unemployment insurance and social assistance – has been a key component of social protection in high-income ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (1), 1-20. )
I38, J08, J46, J81
15398 Onur Altindag
Jane Greve
Erdal Tekin
Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark
We evaluate the impact of a nationwide public health intervention on deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), using population data from Denmark in a regression discontinuity research design. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 882–893.)
I12, I24, I18
15396 Cécile Aubert
Hai-Anh H Dang
Manh-Hung Nguyen
The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups
This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual ...
(published as 'The Unequal Impact of Covid-19: Health, Wealth and Behaviors by Income Groups' in: Revue Francaise d'Economie, 2022, 2, 43-77.)
D0, H0, I1, I3, O1
15393 Oscar Barrera
Isabelle Bensidoun
Anthony Edo
Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe
This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant ...
(published online in: Migration Studies, mnae010, 02 April 2024)
F22, J15, P16
15391 Michael Weber
Francesco D’Acunto
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Olivier Coibion
The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms: Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives. 2022, 36 (3), 157–184)
D1, D2, D8, D9, E2, E3, E4, E5, E7, J1
15389 Carsten Andersen
Mikkel Aagaard Houmark
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Michael Svarer
Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
In this paper we study effects of mass layoffs on parents and their children in the aftermath of the Great Recession using staggered difference-in-differences (DiD). We exploit quasi-experimental ...
(published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift/ Danish Economic Journal, 2022, 2022 (1), Article 3)
I20, J63
15386 Sébastien Fontenay
Ilan Tojerow
How Does Job Coaching Help Disability Insurance Recipients Work While on Claim?
We evaluate the effects of a Supported Employment (SE) program aimed at Disability Insurance (DI) recipients with mental conditions. The program is characterized by a "work-first" approach, which ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 100, 102958)
H55, I38, J24
15383 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
Marcin Jakubek
Grzegorz Kosiorowski
On the Optimal Size of a Joint Savings Association
We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2022, 50 (3), 804 - 814)
D01, D02, D16, D23, D71, D86, G23, O12, O17, P13
15382 Niaz Asadullah
Anindita Bhattacharjee
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use and Learning Loss during COVID-19
COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (10), 1934 - 1957)
D10, I21, J22, Q50
15380 Apostolos Davillas
Victor Hugo de Oliveira
Andrew M. Jones
A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data
The economics of obesity literature implicitly assumes that measured anthropometrics are error-free and they are often treated as a gold standard when compared to self-reported data. We use factor ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 2371–2410)
C18, C81, I10
15379 Anders Stenberg
A Note on Evaluating Formal Education for Adults
Evaluations of adults in formal education (AE) are typically based on earnings measured 5-10 years after program enrollment. This paper estimates returns up to 24 years after enrollment, and explore ...
(published as 'Does Formal Education for Adults Yield Long-Term Multiplier Effects or Human Capital Depreciation?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102306)
H30, H52, I20, J24, O30
15378 Daniel Goller
Andrea Diem
Stefan C. Wolter
Sitting Next to a Dropout: Academic Success of Students with More Educated Peers
We investigate the impact of the presence of university dropouts on the academic success of first-time students. Our identification strategy relies on quasi-random variation in the proportion of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 93, 102372)
A23, C14, I23
15377 Judit Krekó
Daniel Prinz
Andrea Weber
Take-up and Labor Supply Responses to Disability Insurance Earnings Limits
In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102583)
H53, H55, I38, J22
15376 Jun Sung Kim
Eleonora Patacchini
Pierre M. Picard
Yves Zenou
Spatial Interactions
This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and their social capital. We characterize the equilibrium in terms of both social ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2023, 14 (4), 1295-1335)
D85, R1, Z13
15375 Robert Rutledge
Vinayak Alladi
Stephen L. Cheung
Price Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences
We experimentally test Kőszegi and Rabin's (2006, 2007) theory of reference-dependent preferences in the context of price expectations. In an incentivised valuation task, participants are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 231, 106927)
C91, D90
15373 Mark Borgschulte
David Molitor
Eric Yongchen Zou
Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke
We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plume with ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (6), 1558–1575.)
J21, Q51, Q52, Q53, Q54
15372 Mark Borgschulte
Heepyung Cho
Darren Lubotsky
Partisanship and Survey Refusal
Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 332-357)
C81, J64, P48
15370 Marta Martínez Matute
Pedro S. Martins
How Representative Are Social Partners in Europe? The Role of Dissimilarity
Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) and their representativeness can shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, ...
(published in: Labour, 2022, 36, 424 - 444)
J50, J23, L22
15369 Joan Costa-Font
Francesco D’Amico
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 487–522 )
118, J22
15367 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Nicholas Wilson
Study More Tomorrow
We design a commitment contract for college students, "Study More Tomorrow," and conduct a randomized control trial testing a model of its demand. The contract commits students to attend peer ...
(published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 08 January 2024)
D91, I21, I23
15366 Mattia Filomena
Isabella Giorgetti
Matteo Picchio
Off to a Bad Start: Youth Nonemployment and Labor Market Outcomes Later in Life
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market ...
(published online in: Empirical Economics, 08 April 2025)
J01, J08, J31, J64
15363 Omar Bamieh
Lennart Ziegler
Can Wage Transparency Alleviate Gender Sorting in the Labor Market?
Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and employer choices. If female workers are not well informed about these pay ...
(published online in: Economic Policy, eiae025, 25 April 2024)
J16, J31, J62, J63, J68
15362 Yana Gallen
Melanie Wasserman
Does Information Affect Homophily?
It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the popularity of these programs, there is little evidence on whether mentees value ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 222, 104876)
J16, J24, J71
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