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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
15117 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recent Evidence
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 50, 83-116)
J17, I18, H40, K32, J28
15114 Tatiana Abboud
Andriana Bellou
Joshua Lewis
The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and labor market outcomes. Our analysis exploits cross-state variation in the rollout of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066)
I18, I12, J20
15112 Boris Hirsch
Philipp Lentge
Claus Schnabel
Uncovered Workers in Plants Covered by Collective Bargaining: Who Are They and How Do They Fare?
In Germany, employers used to pay union members and non-members in a plant the same union wage in order to prevent workers from joining unions. Using recent administrative data, we investigate which ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (4), 929-945)
J31, J53
15111 Ho Fai Chan
Zhiming Cheng
Silvia Mendolia
Alfredo R. Paloyo
Massimiliano Tani
Damon Proulx
David Savage
Benno Torgler
Societal Movement Restrictions and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have struggled to find the right balance between restrictive measures to contain the spread of the virus, and the effects of these measures on people's ...
(published in: Scientific Reports, 2024,14,1790 )
I0, I14
15110 Dennis H. Meier
Stephan L. Thomsen
Johannes Trunzer
The Financial Situation of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Many university students depend on employment during their studies. The closing of universities and the loss of many typical student jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected their ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Soziale Welt)
I23, I24
15109 Maria Knoth Humlum
Marius Opstrup Morthorst
Peter Rønø Thingholm
Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102843)
I10, I18, I12, I14
15108 Loredana Cultrera
Benoît Mahy
François Rycx
Guillaume Vermeylen
Educational and Skills Mismatches: Unravelling Their Effects on Wages across Europe
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 561-573)
J21, J24.
15107 Aino-Maija Aalto
Dagmar Müller
Lucas Tilley
From Epidemic to Pandemic: Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on High School Program Choices in Sweden
We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102346)
I20, J24
15106 Colin P. Green
Luke B. Wilson
Anwen Zhang
Beauty, Underage Drinking, and Adolescent Risky Behaviours
Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 215, 153 - 166)
I12, J10
15104 Analia Schlosser
Yannay Shanan
Fostering Soft Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from a Large-Scale RCT
The long-term unemployed sometimes lack basic soft skills needed to enter and succeed in the labor market. We examine whether it is possible to develop or enhance these skills among adults by using a ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources)
J24, J64
15103 Suman Banerjee
Saul Estrin
Sarmistha Pal
Corporate Disclosure, Compliance and Consequences: Evidence from Russia
Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and therefore earnings quality and firm performance? We explore these questions for an ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2022, 28 (17), 1770-1802)
G3, K29, O38
15101 Atsushi Inoue
Ryuichi Tanaka
Do Teachers' College Majors Affect Students' Academic Achievement in the Sciences? A Cross-Subfields Analysis with Student-Teacher Fixed Effects
We examine whether and how teachers' major fields of study affect students' achievement, exploiting within-student variation across subfields in natural science (i.e., physics, chemistry, biology, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31(5), 617-631)
H75, I21, J24
15098 Bilge Erten
Pinar Keskin
Silvia Prina
Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19
We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 262 - 266)
J12, J15, I18
15096 Michael Haylock
Patrick Kampkötter
Mario Macis
Jürgen Sauter
Susanne Seitz
Robert Slonim
Daniel Wiesen
Alexander H. Schmidt
Improving the Availability of Unrelated Stem Cell Donors: Evidence from a Major Donor Registry
The unavailability of potential stem cell donors poses a critical challenge for donor registries worldwide. This study investigates the impact of initiatives of a stem cell donor registry to enhance ...
(published online in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024.)
I12, I18
15092 Mingqi Fu
Jing Guo
Xi Chen
Boxun Han
Farooq Ahmed
Muhammad Shahid
Qilin Zhang
American Older Adults in the Time of COVID-19: Vulnerability Types, Aging Attitudes, and Emotional Responses
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, ...
(published in: Frontiers in Public Health, 2022, 9, 778084)
J14, D91, I14
15091 Mariana Viollaz
Mauricio Salazar-Saenz
Luca Flabbi
Monserrat Bustelo
Mariano Bosch
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Labor Supply Impact by Gender
We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2023, 14 (1))
J6, J16, J46, O10, O17
15090 Sebastian Link
Andreas Peichl
Christopher Roth
Johannes Wohlfart
Information Frictions among Firms and Households
We survey samples of German firms and households to document novel stylized facts about the extent of information frictions among the two groups. First, firms' expectations about macroeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023,135, 99-115)
D83, D84, E71
15089 Christopher Birdsall
Seth Gershenson
The Pro Bono Penalty: Extracurricular Activities and Demographic Disparities in Bar Exam Success
Demographic disparities in bar exam pass rates are problematic but poorly understood. We investigate a possible explanation: participation in extracurricular activities, which could either distract ...
(published in: Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender & Social Justice, 2022, 12 (1), Article 4)
I23, I24
15086 Jason Faberman
Andreas I. Mueller
Aysegül Sahin
Has the Willingness to Work Fallen during the COVID Pandemic?
We examine the effect of the Covid pandemic on willingness to work along both the extensive and intensive margins of labor supply. Special survey questions in the Job Search Supplement of the Survey ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102275)
E24, J21, J60
15085 Apostolos Davillas
Victor Hugo de Oliveira
Andrew M. Jones
Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS
We capitalise on an opportunity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, which asks respondents the same SAH question with identical wording two times. This is done once with a self-completion and ...
(revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101219)
C10, C33, C83, I10
15082 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
Vincenzo Scoppa
Janna Smirnova
The Long-Run Effects of College Remedial Education
We investigate the long-run impact of college remedial education on students' academic performance and employment status. By implementing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design we show that ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 2016, 110613.)
I23, I28, C26
15080 Henri Haapanala
Ive Marx
Zachary Parolin
Robots and Unions: The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment
We analyse the moderating effect of trade unions on industrial employment and unemployment in countries facing exposure to industrial robots. Applying random effects within-between regression to a ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 827-852)
J5
15077 Thomas Gries
Wim Naudé
Breakthroughs, Backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence: An Extended Real Options Approach
Breakthroughs and backlashes have marked progress in the development and diffusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These shocks make the investment in developing an Artificial General Intelligence ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
O31, O32, C61, C65
15075 Simon Chang
Kamhon Kan
Do Good Carefully: The Long-Term Effects of DDT Exposure in Early Childhood on Education and Employment
For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health gains and ecological costs, ignoring DDT's long-term harmful effects on humans. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32(4), 807-882)
I1, Q5
15074 Valentine Jacobs
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
Does Over-Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Role of Workers' Origin and Immigrants' Background
We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (6), 698-724)
J24, J71
15073 Winfried Koeniger
Carlo Zanella
Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had access to optimal insurance against low ability of future generations. Based on a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 208, 104623)
E24, H21, I24, J24, J62
15070 Yuanyuan Chen
Shuaizhang Feng
Chao Yang
Heterogeneous Peer Effects under Endogenous Selection: An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Elementary Schools in Shanghai
This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 87, 102207)
C31, C34, I21
15069 Frédérique Savignac
Erwan Gautier
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Olivier Coibion
Firms' Inflation Expectations: New Evidence from France
Using a new survey of firms' inflation expectations in France, we provide novel evidence about the measurement and formation of inflation expectations on the part of firms. First, French firms report ...
(pubished in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (6), 2748–2781)
E2, E3, E4
15068 Eugenia Chernina
Vladimir Gimpelson
Do Wages Grow with Experience? Deciphering the Russian Puzzle
The study explores how wages grow with experience in the Russian Federation. In all available cross-sectional data, the trajectory of the observed wage–experience profile is flat, peaks early, and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (2), 545-563)
J24, J31
15067 Jane Arnold Lincove
Catherine Mata
Kalena E. Cortes
A Bridge to Graduation: Post-secondary Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail High School Exit Exams
High school exit exams are meant to standardize the quality of public high schools and to ensure that students graduate with a set of basic skills and knowledge. Evidence suggests that a common ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2024, 19 (4), 665–691)
I21, I24, J18
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