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15208 Resul Cesur
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Jennifer Louise Roff
David Simon
Domestic Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Using Difference-in-Differences models and event-study analysis, we estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the incidence and intensity of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Law and Economics)
I10, I18, I3
15205 Simon Georges-Kot
Dominique Goux
Eric Maurin
The Value of Leisure Synchronization
This paper explores the extent to which workers are willing to trade hours worked for leisure time shared with their spouse. This parameter is essential to properly assess contemporary trends in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (1), 351-76)
J22, D13
15204 Nick Drydakis
Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms
The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated ...
(published in: Sustainability, 2022, 14 (8), 4417.)
M53, L26, O31, O33
15200 Orkun Saka
Barry Eichengreen
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2022, 54 (7), 1913 - 1940)
G20, G59, I10
15199 Lars Brausewetter
Stephan L. Thomsen
Johannes Trunzer
Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices across German Districts
Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional ...
(revised version published as 'Regional Supply and Demand Fundamentals in the German Housing Price Boom' in: German Economic Review, 2024, 25 (1), 1-36. )
R23, R31
15195 Naci Mocan
Eric Osborne-Christenson
In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges
We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (4), 731–766)
K, J71
15194 Cloé Garnache
Øystein Hernaes
Anders Gravir Imenes
Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?
We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency ...
(published as 'Demand-Side Management in Fully Electrified Homes' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2025, 12 (2), 257–283 )
C93, D12, L94, Q41
15190 Eline Moens
Elsy Verhofstadt
Luc Van Ootegem
Stijn Baert
Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees: A Factorial Survey Experiment
This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2024,163 (2), 325 - 348)
J24, J81, J31, J63, I31
15189 Claudio Deiana
Ludovica Giua
Roberto Nistico
Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty ...
(published in: Demography, 2025, 62 (3), 811–837.)
J15, J61, K37
15187 Julián Costas-Fernández
Greta Morando
The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
This paper offers new evidence of the role of immigration in shaping the educational and labour market outcomes of natives. We use administrative data on the entire English higher education system ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 160, 104595)
F22, I21, I23, I24, I26, J15, J24
15186 Robert Dur
Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez
Cornel Nesseler
How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (1), 175 - 191)
C93, J15, Z29
15184 Mingyu Chen
Jessica Howell
Jonathan Smith
Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102385)
I21, I23, F22, J15
15183 Alberto Salamone
Grace Lordan
Can Meaning Make Cents? Making the Meaning of Work Salient for US Manufacturing Workers
We conducted a field experiment in a small electronics manufacturing firm in the US with the specific aim to improve minutes worked, punctuality, tardiness and safety checks. Our intervention was to ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (7), 302655)
J10
15182 Grace Lordan
Eliza-Jane Stringer
People versus Machines: The Impact of Being in an Automatable Job on Australian Worker's Mental Health and Life Satisfaction
This study explores the effect on mental health and life satisfaction of working in an automatable job. We utilise an Australian panel dataset (HILDA), and estimate models that include individual ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology 2022, 46, 101144)
I10, J20
15181 Jonathan Gruber
Grace Lordan
Stephen Pilling
Carol Propper
Rob Saunders
The Impact of Mental Health Support for the Chronically Ill on Hospital Utilisation: Evidence from the UK
Individuals with common mental disorders (CMDs) such as depression and anxiety frequently have co-occurring long-term physical health conditions (LTCs) and this co-occurrence is associated with ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 294, 114675)
I10
15180 Cecily Josten
Grace Lordan
Automation and the Changing Nature of Work
This study identifies the job attributes, and in particular skills and abilities, which predict the likelihood a job is recently automatable drawing on the Josten and Lordan (2020) classification of ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (5), e0266326)
J21, J00
15179 Alejandra Abufhele
David Bravo
Florencia López Bóo
Pamela Soto-Ramirez
Developmental Losses in Young Children from Pre-primary Program Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The learning and developmental losses from pre-primary program closures due to COVID-19 may be unprecedented. These disruptions early in life can be long-lasting. Although there is evidence about the ...
(published in: Comparative Education Review, 2024, 68 (3), 423 -442)
I25, J13, O15, Z13
15178 Mike Brewer
Thang Dang
Emma Tominey
Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health
The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to sustainable employment. Exploiting a staggered roll-out, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102940)
D61, I10, I14, I38
15177 Daiji Kawaguchi
Takahiro Toriyabe
Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102197.)
D12, H24, J16, J12, J13, J16, J24
15176 Simona Lorena Comi
Mara Grasseni
Federica Origo
Sometimes It Works! The Effect of a Reform of the Short Vocational Track on School-to-Work Transition
This paper studies the impact on the length of school-to-work transition of a reform that extended from two to three years the short vocational track in Italy in the early 2000s. In the empirical ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7),1601 -1619)
I26, I28, J24
15175 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sarah C. Dahmann
Daniel A. Kamhöfer
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
The Determinants of Population Self-Control
This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of ...
(updated version published as 'Surveillance and self-control' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (660), 1666–1682)
D90, C26
15172 Federico Cingano
Filippo Palomba
Paolo Pinotti
Enrico Rettore
Making Subsidies Work: Rules vs. Discretion
We estimate the employment effects of a large program of public investment subsidies that ranked applications on a score reflecting both objective criteria and local politicians' preferences. ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2025, 93 (3), 747-778)
H25, J08
15171 Francesco Sarracino
Talita Greyling
Kelsey J. O'Connor
Chiara Peroni
Stephanié Rossouw
Trust Predicts Compliance with COVID-19 Containment Policies: Evidence from Ten Countries Using Big Data
Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101412)
D91, I18, H12
15170 Espen S. Dahl
Øystein Hernaes
Making Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Mandatory
Activation policies to promote self-sufficiency among recipients of welfare and other types of benefits are becoming more common in many welfare states. We evaluate a law change in Norway making ...
(published in: Labour, 2023, 37 (1), 96-121)
H55, I38, J18
15168 Lanlin Ding
Peng Nie
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Housing Conditions and Health in Urban China
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we investigate the causal relation between housing conditions (both internal and external) and health among urban adults aged 18+. ...
(published in: Cities, 2024, 152, 105248.)
D63, I10, I12, R21
15164 Pierre Koning
Max van Lent
Workers' Moral Hazard and Insurer Effort in Disability Insurance
Disability Insurance (DI) may affect workers' outcomes such as their probability to enter DI, to recover, and their employment. Supplementary insurance may increase these moral hazard effects, but ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2024, 91 (4), 1049 - 1088)
G22, G52, J3, J21
15160 Hale Utar
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an ...
(published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 11 September 2024)
L25, L60, O12, O14, O18, O19, R11, O54, F14
15158 Jeffrey Clemens
Michael R. Strain
Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?
In analyses of minimum wages, positive "ripple effects" and subminimum wages are difficult to distinguish from measurement error. Indeed, prior work posits that a simple, symmetric measurement ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 217, 1106368)
J08, J38, K42
15156 Scott R. Baker
Steven J. Davis
Jeffrey A. Levy
State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 132, 81-99)
D80, E66, G18, H70, R50
15154 Jérôme Adda
Christian Dustmann
Sources of Wage Growth
This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (2), 456 - 503)
J2, J3, J6
15153 Maarten van Ham
David Manley
Tiit Tammaru
Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality
Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3 (S1), i634-i641)
I30, J60, P46, R23
15151 Jeffrey A. Smith
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Knowledge of treatment effect heterogeneity or "essential heterogeneity" plays an important role in our understanding of how programs work and in the design of systems to allocate them among the ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2022, 46 (5), 652 - 677)
C10, C41
15150 Sankar Mukhopadhyay
The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Job Loss Induced Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented level of job losses in the U.S., where a job loss is also associated with the loss of health insurance. This paper uses data from the 2020 Household ...
(published in: SSM Population Health, 2022, 20, 101279)
I12, I18, J6
15148 Govert Bijwaard
Jackline Wahba
Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration and controlling for total earnings. We use Timing-of-Events models and control ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667)
F22, J61, C41
15146 Kirk Doran
Alexander Gelber
Adam Isen
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2501–2533)
J00, J08, J15, J23, J24, J48
15145 Anna Adamecz
Nikki Shure
The Gender Gap in Top Jobs – The Role of Overconfidence
There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings, and also have more job security and better career trajectories. Recent literature ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102283)
I24, I26, J24
15144 Mireille Kozhaya
Fernanda Martínez Flores
Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age
This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39 (1), 164–190,)
I38, J22, J23, J82, O12
15142 Stepan Mikula
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Residential-Based Discrimination in the Labor Market
Through a correspondence study, this paper investigates whether employers discriminate job applicants based on their living conditions. Exploiting the natural setting provided by a Rapid Re-housing ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2022, 2, 373 - 388)
C93, J08, J71
15141 Simon Briole
Marc Gurgand
Eric Maurin
Sandra McNally
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
Daniel Santín
The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries
With the rise of polarization and extremism, the question of how best to transmit civic virtues across generations is more acute than ever. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that schools can be ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
I20, I24, J24
15139 Aspasia Bizopoulou
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Stefania Simion
Do Second Chances Pay Off? Evidence from a Natural Experiment with Low-Achieving Students
In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105214)
J16, I21, I23
15138 Hani Mansour
Terra McKinnish
Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages
Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 115–138)
J12, J24
15137 Thomas Dudek
Anne Ardila Brenøe
Jan Feld
Julia Rohrer
No Evidence That Siblings' Gender Affects Personality across Nine Countries
Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from ...
(published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (9), 1574 - 1587)
J12, J16, J24
15136 Robert E. Hall
Marianna Kudlyak
The Unemployed with Jobs and without Jobs
Potential workers are classified as unemployed if they seek work but are not working. The unemployed population contains two groups—those with jobs and those without jobs. Those with jobs are on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102244)
E32, J63, J64
15135 Robert E. Hall
Marianna Kudlyak
The Inexorable Recoveries of Unemployment
Unemployment recoveries in the US have been inexorable. Between 1948 and 2019, the annual reduction in the unemployment rate during cyclical recoveries was fairly tightly distributed around 0.1 log ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 131, 15 - 25)
E32, J63, J64
15134 Michele Di Maio
Francesco Fasani
Valerio Leone Sciabolazza
Vasco Molini
Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State
We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 460-485)
F22, J61, K37
15133 Hans Henrik Sievertsen
Sarah Smith
Male and Female Voices in Economics
Women's voices are likely to be even more absent from economic debates than headline figures on female under-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are ...
(updated version published as 'The gender gap in expert voices: Evidence from economics' in: Public Understanding of Science, 2025, 34 (4), 446-458.)
A11, J16
15132 Jin Zhou
James J. Heckman
Bei Liu
Mai Lu
The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
This paper uses random assignment to estimate the causal impacts on child skills of a widely emulated early childhood home visiting program. We show the feasibility of replicating it at scale. We ...
(earlier version of this paper available as IZA DP No. 13346. )
J13, Z18
15131 Matthew J. Lindquist
Jan Sauermann
Yves Zenou
Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Network Approach
We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply this method to data from an in-house call center of a multinational mobile ...
(revised version available here)
J24, M50
15130 Matěj Bělín
Tomáš Jelínek
Štepán Jurajda
Social Networks and Surviving the Holocaust
Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent ...
(part of the paper published as 'Preexisting social ties among Auschwitz prisoners support Holocaust survival' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2023, 120 (29), e2221654120)
Z1
15129 Serena Canaan
Anne Sophie Lassen
Philip Rosenbaum
Herdis Steingrimsdottir
Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries
Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn ...
(published in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2022)
J08, J12, J13, J22, J23
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