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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
15128 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Rank Effects in Education: What Do We Know So Far?
In recent years there has been a plethora of empirical papers by economists concerning the effects of academic rank in school or college on subsequent outcomes of students. We review this recent ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022)
I21, J16, J24
15126 Giuseppe Moscelli
Melisa Sayli
Marco Mello
Staff Engagement, Job Complementarity and Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS Hospital Workforce
We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be ...
(updated version of this paper published as IZA DP No. 15638.)
C33, C36, I11, J22, J28, J63
15125 Warn N. Lekfuangfu
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Luck or Rights? An Experiment on Preferences for Redistribution Following Inheritance of Opportunity
We experimentally investigate whether people generally perceive inheritance as effort-induced or luck-induced. By randomly matched two strangers in a lab setting, we test whether the sources of ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023,106, 102078)
D64, H2
15124 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Kaushalendra Kumar
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Arindam Nandi
Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression ...
(published in: Economic Papers, 2022, 41 (2), 144 - 175)
I12, I15, I18, J13, J24, O12
15123 Holger Görg
Alina Mulyukova
Place-Based Policies and Agglomeration Economies: Firm-Level Evidence from Special Economic Zones in India
This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 165, 104752)
O18, O25, P25, R10, R58, R23, F21, F60
15122 Marie-Claire Robitaille
Joniada Milla
Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania
The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60 (8), 1246- 1265)
J13, J16
15120 Farzana Afridi
Sisir Debnath
Taryn Dinkelman
Komal Sareen
Time for Clean Energy? Cleaner Fuels and Women's Time in Home Production
In much of the developing world, cooking accounts for most of women's time in home production. Does reliance on biomass for cooking drive this time burden? To assess time-savings from shifting ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 283–304)
O13, J22
15119 Sascha O. Becker
Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research
Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes ...
(published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2022, 62 (1), 2-25)
F22, R23, D74, Q54, N30
15118 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Victoria Vernon
Who Is Doing the Chores and Childcare in Dual-Earner Couples during the COVID-19 Era of Working from Home?
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015–2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 519–565 )
D13, J22, J29
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