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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
15032 Gianluca Grimalda
Fabrice Murtin
David Pipke
Louis Putterman
Matthias Sutter
The Politicized Pandemic: Ideological Polarization and the Behavioral Response to COVID-19
We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of the U.S. population during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104472.)
D01, D72, D91, I12, I18, H11, H12
15031 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
Online Teaching, Procrastination and Students’ Achievement: Evidence from COVID-19 Induced Remote Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities to transit from traditional class-based teaching to online learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102378.)
I21, I23, I28, D90, L86
15030 Antoine Bertheau
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias
The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important labor market indicators. However, Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions are hard ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102130)
E24, E32, J63
15029 Rita K. Almeida
Mariana Viollaz
Women in Paid Employment: A Role for Public Policies and Social Norms in Guatemala
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2023, 51 (3), 252-279)
J16, J21, J22, O12
15028 Iván Fernández-Val
Aico van Vuuren
Francis Vella
Franco Peracchi
Selection and the Distribution of Female Hourly Wages in the U.S.
We analyze the role of selection bias in generating the changes in the observed distribution of female hourly wages in the United States using CPS data for the years 1975 to 2020. We account for the ...
(published as 'Selection and the distribution of female real hourly wages in the United States' in: Quantitative Economics, 2023, 14 (2), 571-607)
C14, I24, J00
15026 Cecilia Machado
Germán Reyes
Evan Riehl
Alumni Job Networks at Elite Universities and the Efficacy of Affirmative Action
We examine the efficacy of affirmative action at universities whose value depends on peer and alumni networks. We study an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based affirmative ...
(published as 'The Direct and Spillover Effects of Large-Scale Affirmative Action at an Elite Brazilian University' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 391–431)
I23, I26, J31
15024 Matteo Balliauw
Marco Verheuge
Stijn Baert
Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2022, 30 (12), 1692–1695)
L830, Z220, Z260
15021 Yyannu Cruz Aguayo
Pedro Carneiro
Ruthy Intriago
Juan Ponce
Norbert Schady
Sarah Schodt
When Promising Interventions Fail: Personalized Coaching for Teachers in a Middle-Income Country
Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. We designed a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2022, 3, 100012)
I20
15020 Mark Duggan
Audrey Guo
Andrew C. Johnston
Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers?
The tax base for state unemployment insurance (UI) programs varies significantly in the U.S., from a low of $7,000 annually in California to a high of $52,700 in Washington. Previous research has ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 107–111)
D22, H22, H25, H71, J23, J32, J38, J65
15019 Francisca M. Antman
Kalena E. Cortes
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation
We present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of ending de jure segregation of Mexican-American school children in the United States by examining the effects of the 1947 Mendez v. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature American, 2023, 61 (3), 888–905)
I24, I26, J15, J18
15018 Tilman Drerup
Matthias Wibral
Christian Zimpelmann
Skewness Expectations and Portfolio Choice
Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26, 107 - 144)
D14, D84, G02, G11
15016 Francisca M. Antman
For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1352–1365.)
N33, I15, Q25, Q56
15015 Enrico Santarelli
Jacopo Staccioli
Marco Vivarelli
Automation and Related Technologies: A Mapping of the New Knowledge Base
Using the entire population of USPTO patent applications published between 2002 and 2019, and leveraging on both patent classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current ...
(published in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 2023, 48, 779-813)
O33
15014 Niklas Engbom
Christian Moser
Jan Sauermann
Firm Pay Dynamics
We study the nature of firm pay dynamics. To this end, we propose a statistical model that extends the seminal framework by Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) to allow for idiosyncratically ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (1), 396 - 423)
J31, D22, D31, E24, M13
15013 Titan Alon
Matthias Doepke
Kristina Manysheva
Michèle Tertilt
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries
In many high-income economies, the recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented declines in women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 272 - 276)
E32, J16, J20, O10
15011 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Robert Mahlstedt
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Subsidizing the geographical mobility of unemployed workers may improve welfare by relaxing their financial constraints and allowing them to find jobs in more prosperous regions. We exploit regional ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023)
J61, J68, D04, C21
15010 Joseph G. Altonji
John Eric Humphries
Ling Zhong
The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men
This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and ...
(published in: Polachek, S.W. and Tatsiramos, K. (ed.) 50th Celebratory Volume (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 50), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 25-81)
I21,I26,J16,J24,J28,J31
15009 Tatyana Deryugina
Olga Shurchkov
Jenna Stearns
Public School Access or Stay-at-Home Partner: Factors Mitigating the Adverse Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Academic Parents
The COVID-19 pandemic created unexpected and prolonged disruptions to childcare access. Using survey evidence on time use by academic researchers before and after the pandemic, we analyze the extent ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 267 - 271)
D10, J16, J44
15008 Alex Bryson
John Forth
Worker Representation
We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the ...
(published in: T. Eriksson (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies , Edward Elgar, 2023, 237–241 )
J5, J51, J52, J53, J83
15006 Michael Kosfeld
Zahra Sharafi
The Preference Survey Module: New Evidence on Social Preferences from Tehran
We provide new evidence on the extent that survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2024, 10, 152–164)
C81, C83, C90, D01, D03
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