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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
15065 Nick Drydakis
Artificial Intelligence and Reduced SMEs' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced ...
(published in: Information Systems Frontiers, 2022, 24, 1223 - 1247)
O33, Q55, L26
15064 Jeanne Lafortune
Todd Pugatch
José Tessada
Diego Ubfal
Can Interactive Online Training Make High School Students More Entrepreneurial? Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a randomized controlled trial, we estimate ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 101, 102559)
I21, I25, I26, J24, L26
15063 Olof Aslund
Mattias Engdahl
Olof Rosenqvist
Limbo or Leverage? Asylum Waiting and Refugee Integration
We study the impact of asylum waiting, exploiting a rapid increase in processing times for asylum seekers to Sweden. Longer waiting slows down integration. Accumulated earnings during the first four ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 234, 105118)
F22, J15, J68
15060 Badi H. Baltagi
Yusuf Soner Baskaya
Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey
This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual level data from the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey (THLFS) provided by TURKSTAT for the ...
(published in Journal of Spatial Econometrics, 2022, 3, Article 3)
C21, J30, J60
15058 Nir Jaimovich
Itay Saporta-Eksten
Ofer Setty
Yaniv Yedid-Levi
Universal Basic Income: Inspecting the Mechanisms
We consider the aggregate and distributional impact of Universal Basic Income (UBI). We develop a model to study a wide range of UBI programs and financing schemes and to highlight the key mechanisms ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024)
E2, E6, J08
15057 Plamen Nikolov
Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers – 2021-2022 Edition
This document summarizes various tips for economics research papers.
(updated version of this IZA paper published as IZA DP No. 16276: Writing Tips for Crafting Effective Economics Research Papers – 2023-2024 Edition. Please use the updated paper URL.)
A30, A39
15056 Chrystalla Kapetaniou
Christopher A. Pissarides
Productive Robots and Industrial Employment: The Role of National Innovation Systems
In a model with robots, and automatable and complementary human tasks, we examine robot-labour substitutions and show how it they are influenced by a country's "innovation system". Substitution ...
(published online in: International Economic Review, 17 October 2024)
J23, L60, O33, O52
15055 Markus Eberhardt
Giovanni Facchini
Valeria Rueda
Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market
Academia, and economics in particular, faces increased scrutiny because of gender imbalance. This paper studies the job market for entry-level faculty positions. We employ machine learning methods to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (1), 144–180)
J16, A11
15050 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
The Demand for Gratitude as a Restraint on the Use of Child Labor: A Hypothesis
We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises ...
(published in: JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2023, 89 (1), 137-147)
D01, D13, D15, D64, J13, J22, O12, Q12
15047 Ning Jia
Raven Molloy
Christopher L. Smith
Abigail Wozniak
The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions
We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2021, 61 (1), 144–180)
J61, J68, J11
15045 Michael A. Clemens
Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 257-261)
F22, J61, O15
15043 Marco Caliendo
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Harald Pfeifer
Arne Uhlendorff
Caroline Wehner
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments
We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616)
J24, D22, D91
15042 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
Gian Luca Tedeschi
Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39, 42-60)
J15, K37, N57, O15, Z13
15041 Deepti Goel
Rosa Abraham
Rahul Lahoti
Improving Survey Quality Using Paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey
We describe the design and implemention of a paradata based method to reduce interviewer induced measurement error in a household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant ...
(published as 'Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from a field survey in India' in: Development Policy Review, 2025, 43, e12813,)
C83
15040 Niklas Gohl
Peter Haan
Claus Michelsen
Felix Weinhardt
House Price Expectations
This study examines short-, medium-, and long-run price expectations in housing markets. We derive and test six hypothesis about the incidence, formation, and relevance of price expectations. To do ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 218, 379-398 )
R21, D84
15039 Serena Canaan
Pierre Mouganie
Peng Zhang
The Long-Run Educational Benefits of High-Achieving Classrooms
Despite the prevalence of school tracking, evidence on whether it improves student success is mixed. This paper studies how tracking within high school impacts high-achieving students' short- and ...
(published online in: JJournal of Policy Analysis and Management , 20 August 2024)
I21, I24, I26, J24
15038 Xi Chen
Yun Qiu
Wei Shi
Pei Yu
Key Links in Network Interactions: Assessing Route-Specific Travel Restrictions in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 73, 101800)
C21, I18, D85, H75
15037 Tanika Chakraborty
Anirban Mukherjee
Sarani Saha
Divya Shukla
Caste, Courts and Business
We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts ...
(published in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 333-365)
K12, L26, O17
15034 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Fanny Landaud
Kjell G. Salvanes
The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Transfers from parents-either in the form of gifts or inheritances-have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (3), 1060–1094)
G51, J01, J1
15033 Antoine Bertheau
Edoardo Acabbi
Cristina Barcelo
Andreas Gulyas
Stefano Lombardi
Raffaele Saggio
The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2023, 5 (3), 393-408)
J30, J63, J64
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