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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 Lřchte Jřrgensen
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: Nationalřkonomisk 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
15360 Yannis Georgellis
Andrew E. Clark
Emmanuel Apergis
Catherine Robinson
Occupational Status and Life Satisfaction in the UK: The Miserable Middle?
We use British panel data to explore the link between occupational status and life satisfaction. We find puzzling evidence, for men, of a U-shaped relationship in cross-section data: employees in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 509-527)
I31, J24, Z13
15357 John Forth
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Earnings Discrimination in the Workplace
This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham. 2022)
J71, J31
15356 Julia Bredtmann
Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany
This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 96, 103807)
D72, F22, J15, R23
15354 Todd Pugatch
Paul N. Thompson
Excellence for All? University Honors Programs and Human Capital Formation
Can public university honors programs deliver the benefits of selective undergraduate education within otherwise nonselective institutions? We evaluate the impact of admission to the Honors College ...
(published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 11 March 2024)
I21, I23, I26
15352 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation
Much attention is focused on finding ways to encourage females to study STEM in school and college but what actually happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 862-883.)
I23, I26, J16, J24, J31
15351 Wonsik Ko
Robert A. Moffitt
Take-up of Social Benefits
Take-up of a social benefit is usually defined as receiving a benefit for which an individual or household is eligible. The take-up rate is the fraction of those eligible for a program who ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2022)
I38
15349 Philippe Sterkens
Adelina Sharipova
Stijn Baert
Disclosing the 'Big C': What Does Cancer Survivorship Signal to Employers?
To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British recruiters evaluate fictitious job candidates. Candidates differed by periods ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 24, 671–688 )
I10, I12, J70, J71
15347 Nick Drydakis
The Perceived Social Rejection of Sexual Minorities: Substance Use and Unprotected Sexual Intercourse
This study presents associations between the perceived social rejection of sexual minorities and tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of ...
(published in: Drug and Alcohol Review, 2022, 41 (6), 1341-1354. )
I12, I14, L66
15346 Baris Yörük
Does Public Policy Affect Attitudes? Evidence from Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States
The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I ...
(Published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 287-302)
I12, I13, I18
15345 Lei Xu
Yu Zhu
Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2023, 91 (1), 18 - 36)
J22
15344 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Antonio Ranieri
Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling: Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
The increasing use of online labour platforms as intermediaries for finding work – known as crowdwork or gig work – is a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of ...
(published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-employment and Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024)
J22, J24, J62, J28, L26, J49
15343 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Patricia Wruuck
Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain – and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses ...
(also available as: European Investment Bank (EIB) Economics Working Papers 2022/07)
J24, M53, C23, D22, E22
15340 Tony Fang
Viet Hoang Ha
Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
There is considerable debate on the level and effects of minimum wages for many decades. However, most of the studies are conducted in developed countries. This chapter first reviews the theoretical ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
J31, J33, J38
15339 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Caregiving Subsidies and Spousal Early Retirement Intentions
Balancing caregiving duties and work can be both financially and emotionally burdensome, especially when care is provided to a spouse at home. This paper documents that financial respite for ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (4), 550-589)
I18, J14
15337 Michael Johannes Böhm
Daniel Metzger
Per Strömberg
'Since You're So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart': Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium
Financial sector wages have increased extraordinarily over the last decades. We address two potential explanations for this increase: (1) rising demand for talent and (2) firms sharing rents with ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (5), 2215–2260, )
J24, J31, G20
15336 Ian M. Schmutte
Meghan Skira
The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 6 July 2023)
J23, J21, J63, J68, J13
15335 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Naci Mocan
Semih Tumen
Belgi Turan
The Crime Effect of Refugees
We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (2), 472-508)
J08, J2, J3, J38, J61, J68, K14, K37, K42
15334 Tony Fang
Alex Wells
Diaspora Economics
Diasporas are global communities of migrants who retain a sense of connection with their homeland. The concept is ancient but has only recently become an important area of research in economics. Due ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023)
J61, J68
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