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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14963 Simon Jäger
Christopher Roth
Nina Roussille
Benjamin Schoefer
Worker Beliefs about Outside Options
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024, 139 (3), 1505–1556, )
D91, E03, E24, J3, J31, J42, J6
14961 Ozan Isler
Simon Gächter
Conforming with Peers in Honesty and Cooperation
Peer observation can influence social norm perceptions as well as behavior in various moral domains, but is the tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 75-86, )
C91, J16
14959 Carlo Ciccarelli
Alberto Dalmazzo
Tiziano Razzolini
Sicilian Sulphur and Mafia: Resources, Working Conditions and the Practice of Violence
This paper reconsiders the nexus between the abundance of resources and the origins of Sicilian mafia by exploiting a new set of historical data on the Sicilian sulphur industry in the late 19th ...
(substantially revised version published in: Cliometrica, 2024,18, 531–565)
H75, J28, K42
14958 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Emilia Brito
Damian Clarke
Pilar Larroulet
Francisco J. Pino
Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown on Domestic Violence: Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile
We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence (DV). Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 9 February 2024)
J12, I38, H53
14957 Ryota Nakamura
Andrea Albanese
Emma Coombes
Marc Suhrcke
Do Economic Incentives Promote Physical Activity? Evidence from the London Congestion Charge
This study investigates the impact of economic incentives on travel-related physical activity, leveraging the London Congestion Charge's disincentivising of sedentary travel modes via increasing the ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 2024, 187 (2), 305–320)
D04, I12, R48
14956 Hartmut Egger
Elke J. Jahn
Stefan Kornitzky
How Does the Position in Business Group Hierarchies Affect Workers' Wages?
We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 194 (2), 244-263)
C23, J31, L23
14954 Eduardo Ferraz
Rodrigo R. Soares
Juan Vargas
Unbundling the Relationship between Economic Shocks and Crime
Intuitively, by increasing the opportunity cost of engaging in criminal activities, positive economic shocks should reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic ...
(published in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds). A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Elgar Modern Guides, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 184-204)
K42, J30, D74, F16
14952 Shuaizhang Feng
Jun Hyung Kim
Zhe Yang
Effects of Childhood Peers on Personality Skills
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
I21, D62, O15
14951 Stephen P. Jenkins
Top-Income Adjustments and Official Statistics on Income Distribution: The Case of the UK
UK official statistics on income distribution have incorporated top-income adjustments to household survey data since 1992. This article reviews the work undertaken by the Department for Work and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20, 151 - 168)
D31, C81
14950 Oriana Bandiera
Nidhi Parekh
Barbara Petrongolo
Michelle Rao
Men Are from Mars, and Women Too: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Overconfidence Experiments
Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (S1), 38 - 70)
C91, J16
14949 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Jennifer Louise Roff
The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the ...
(published online in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25 November 2024)
J12, J22, K36
14948 Gordon B. Dahl
Runjing Lu
William Mullins
Partisan Fertility and Presidential Elections
Changes in political leadership drive sharp changes in public policy and partisan beliefs about the future. We exploit the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2022, 4 (4), 473-493)
J13, D72
14947 Artyom Jelnov
Pavel Jelnov
Vaccination Policy and Trust
We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in countries with more transparent and accountable governments. The mechanism that ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105773)
I18
14946 Alexander Karaivanov
Dongwoo Kim
Shih En Lu
Hitoshi Shigeoka
COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a ...
(published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2022, 6, 1615–1624)
I18, I12, C23
14944 Francesco Carbonero
Jeremy Davies
Ekkehard Ernst
Frank M. Fossen
Daniel Samaan
Alina Sorgner
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor Markets in Developing Countries: A New Method with an Illustration for Lao PDR and Viet Nam
AI is transforming labor markets around the world. Existing research has focused on advanced economies but has neglected developing economies. Different impacts of AI on labor markets in different ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2023, 33, 707-736)
J22, J23, O14, O33
14943 Effrosyni Adamopoulou
Francesco Manaresi
Omar Rachedi
Emircan Yurdagul
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm
Minimum wages alter the allocation of firm-idiosyncratic risk across workers. To establish this result, we focus on Italy, and leverage employer-employee data matched to firm balance sheets and ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2027)
E24, E25, E64, J31, J38, J52
14941 Jun Yeong Lee
John V. Winters
Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment across the United States
Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2024, 38 (4), 249-270.)
J61, L26, R23
14940 Sofie Cairo
Robert Mahlstedt
Transparency of the Welfare System and Labor Market Outcomes of Unemployed Workers
We study how the transparency of welfare systems affects labor market outcomes of unemployed workers in a large-scale field experiment. Our low-cost information intervention uses a personalized ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104987)
J68, D83, C93
14939 Mehrzad B. Baktash
John S. Heywood
Uwe Jirjahn
Worker Stress and Performance Pay: German Survey Evidence
While performance pay can benefit firms and workers by increasing productivity and wages, it has also been associated with a deterioration of worker health. The transmission mechanisms for this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 201, 276-291)
J33, I31, J32
14936 Jorge Garcia-Hombrados
Marta Martínez Matute
Specialized Courts and the Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Spain
This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialized intimate partner violence (IPV) courts on the reporting and incidence of these crimes. To achieve this goal, we exploit the sequential ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105243)
J12, J16, K14, K38
14935 Juan J. Dolado
Airam Guerra
Uncovering the Roots of Obesity-Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics
This paper investigates the roots of labour market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between body fat percentage and wages. Using a large panel dataset of individuals drawn from the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102425)
J71, J15, J31
14934 Giovanni Facchini
Timothy J. Hatton
Max F. Steinhardt
Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act
The Immigration Act of 1965 marked a dramatic shift in policy and one with major long term consequences for the volume and composition of immigration to the United States. Here we explore the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84 (1), 232-270.)
N12, F22, J68
14931 Chloe Tergiman
Marie Claire Villeval
The Way People Lie in Markets: Detectable vs. Deniable Lies
In a finitely repeated game with asymmetric information, we experimentally study how individuals adapt the nature of their lies when settings allow for reputation-building. While some lies can be ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (6), 3157-3758 )
C91, D01, G41, M21
14930 Paolo Berta
Massimiliano Bratti
Carlo V. Fiorio
Enrico Pisoni
Stefano Verzillo
Administrative Border Effects in COVID-19 Related Mortality
Does the organisation of healthcare systems affect health outcomes in a pandemic situation? To answer this question, we analysed the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on mortality rate ...
(revised version published oline in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, Series A ( Statistics in Society), 11 September 2024)
I10, H12
14928 Uwe Cantner
Philip Doerr
Maximilian Göthner
Matthias Huegel
Martin Kalthaus
A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-off Creation: The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics
We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1555–1590)
L26, O31, O33
14927 Harry J. Holzer
Glenn Hubbard
Michael R. Strain
Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Reduce Employment? Evidence from Early State-Level Expirations in June 2021
The generosity of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits was expanded during the pandemic (FPUC), along with the groups of workers eligible for benefits (PUA). These two programs were set to expire in ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (1), 24-38)
J08, J65
14926 Marco Caliendo
Linda Wittbrodt
Did the Minimum Wage Reduce the Gender Wage Gap in Germany?
In many countries, women are over-represented among low-wage employees, which is why a wage floor could benefit them particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102228)
J16, J31, J38, J71
14925 Paolo Brunori
Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
Giovanna Scarchilli
Model-Based Recursive Partitioning to Estimate Unfair Health Inequalities in the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study
We measure unfair health inequality in the UK using a novel data- driven empirical approach. We explain health variability as the result of circumstances beyond individual control and health-related ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 204, 543-565)
I14, D63
14924 Nauro F. Campos
The EU Anchor Thesis: Transition from Socialism, the Institutional Vacuum and Membership in the European Union
One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions ...
(published in: Elodie Douarin and Oleh Havrylyshyn (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Economics, Springer, 2021, 353–368)
01, P2
14923 Christina Korting
Carl Lieberman
Jordan Matsudaira
Zhuan Pei
Yi Shen
Visual Inference and Graphical Representation in Regression Discontinuity Designs
Despite the widespread use of graphs in empirical research, little is known about readers' ability to process the statistical information they are meant to convey ("visual inference"). We study ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (3), 1977–2019, )
A11, C10, C40
14920 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sarah C. Dahmann
Daniel A. Kamhöfer
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
The Predictive Power of Self-Control for Life Outcomes
This study investigates the predictive power of self-control for individuals and their children using population representative data. We use the well-established Brief Self-Control Scale to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 725-744)
D91, D01, J24
14918 Bilge Erten
Pinar Keskin
Trade-Offs? The Impact of WTO Accession on Intimate Partner Violence in Cambodia
We study the impact of trade-induced changes in labor market conditions on violence within the household. We exploit the local labor demand shocks generated by Cambodia’s WTO accession to assess how ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (2), 322–333.)
F16, O15, J12, J16
14917 Anna Bindler
Randi Hjalmarsson
Nadine Ketel
Andreea Mitrut
Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization
Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 95–134)
K42, K36, J13, I12, I14
14914 David Dorn
Peter Levell
Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2024, 3, 1042-1068)
E31, F13, F14, F16, F23, I14, I38, J21, J23, J31, J61, J62, R11
14912 Andrea Bassanini
Cyprien Batut
Eve Caroli
Labor Market Concentration and Stayers' Wages: Evidence from France
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on stayers' wages, where stayers are defined as individuals who were already employed in the same firm the year before. Using administrative ...
(updated and replaced by 'Labour Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires', IZA Discussion Paper 15910)
J31, J42, L41
14911 Graziella Bertocchi
Luca Bonacini
Marina Murat
Adams and Eves: The Gender Gap in Economics Majors
We investigate the gender gap in Economics among bachelor's and master's graduates in Italy between 2010 and 2019. First we establish that being female exerts a negative impact on the choice to major ...
(published as 'Adams and Eves: High school math and the gender gap in Economics majors' in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (4), 798-817)
A22, I23, J16
14910 Philippe Coulangeon
Denis Fougère
Bringing Underprivileged Middle-School Students to the Opera: Cultural Mobility or Cultural Compliance?
This article assesses the impact of a two-year long project-based learning program conducted by the National Opera of Paris in a large number of junior high-schools located in underprivileged areas, ...
(published in: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022, 43 (7), 1052–1075.)
I21, I29, Z11, Z18, C21
14909 Milena Nikolova
Boris Nikolaev
Christopher Boudreaux
Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a ...
(published in: Small Business Economics. 2023, 60, 463–483)
I31, L26, M10
14908 Regina T. Riphahn
Rebecca Schrader
Reforms of an Early Retirement Pathway in Germany and Their Labor Market Effects
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22(3), 304-330.)
H55, J26, C21
14907 Sungwoo Cho
Felipe Gonçalves
Emily Weisburst
Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime
Do reductions in arrests increase crime? We study line-of-duty deaths of police officers, events that likely impact police behavior through increased fear but are unlikely to directly impact civilian ...
(This version: 8/2022; First version (IZA Working Paper): 12/2021.)
J15, J18, K42
14906 Jonas Fluchtmann
Anita Marie Glenny
Nikolaj Harmon
Jonas Maibom
The Gender Application Gap: Do Men and Women Apply for the Same Jobs?
Men and women tend to hold different jobs. Are these differences present already in the types of jobs men and women apply for? Using administrative data on job applications made by the universe of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 182–219)
E24, J29, J31, J71
14905 Peng Nie
Lu Wang
Davide Dragone
Haiyang Lu
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
"The Better You Feel, the Harder You Fall": Health Perception Biases and Mental Health among Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101708)
I12, I18, P46
14904 Josep Amer-Mestre
Alaitz Ayarza-Astigarraga
Marta C Lopes
E-Learning Engagement Gap during School Closures: Differences by Academic Performance
We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 56 (3), 337–359)
C31, C81, I24, H75
14903 Francesco Sarracino
Talita Greyling
Kelsey J. O'Connor
Chiara Peroni
Stephanié Rossouw
A Year of Pandemic: Levels, Changes and Validity of Well-Being Data from Twitter. Evidence from Ten Countries
In this article, we describe how well-being changed during 2020 in ten countries, namely Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain. ...
(published in: PLos ONE, 2023, 18(2), e0275028.)
C55, I10, I31, H12
14902 Rebecca Kamb
Marcus Tamm
The Fertility Effects of School Entry Decisions
School entry regulations lead to differences in the age when children start school. While previous literature estimated the effects of age at school entry for compliers with school entry regulations, ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30 (8), 1145-1149 )
I21, J24
14901 Nathan Kettlewell
Yuting Zhang
Age Penalties and Take-up of Private Health Insurance
Penalty mandates are used in many countries to encourage people to purchase health insurance. But are they effective? We use a large administrative dataset for a 10% random sample of all Australian ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (4), 636-651)
I13, I18, I12
14900 Bo Yu
Trang Tran
Wang-Sheng Lee
Green Infrastructure and Air Pollution: Evidence from Highways Connecting Two Megacities in China
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades. This paper examines the causal impact of the opening of a heavily used high ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 122, 102884)
L92, O18, Q53, Q54, R41
14899 Paula Gonzalez
Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas
Sarmistha Pal
Managing Dual Practice of Health Workers: Evidence from Indonesia
Managing dual practice of health workers has often proved to be challenging, especially in emerging countries characterized by weak monitoring and low motivation. This paper exploits an exogenous ...
(published as 'Impact of Private Practice of Public Health Workers on Public Health Provision: Evidence from A Natural Experiment' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2025, 366, 117625)
I10, I18, J2, J44, J45, O1
14897 Kailing Shen
Gender Discrimination
This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured ...
(published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 28 January 2022 )
J16, J12, J13
14895 Simon Gächter
Kyeongtae Lee
Martin Sefton
Till O. Weber
Risk, Temptation, and Efficiency in the One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
The prisoner's dilemma (PD) is arguably the most important model of social dilemmas, but our knowledge about how a PD's material payoff structure affects cooperation is incomplete. In this paper we ...
(revised version published as 'The role of payoff parameters for cooperation in the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 166, 104753,)
A13, C91
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