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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
14893 Mara Barschkett
Johannes Geyer
Peter Haan
Anna Hammerschmid
The Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age on Health – Evidence from Administrative Data
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches – a ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100403)
I10, I12, I18, J14, J18, J26
14892 Michael Grimm
Sidiki Soubeiga
Michael Weber
Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the ...
(published as 'Supporting small firms in a fragile context: Comparing matching and cash grants in Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171.103344.)
D22, O12, Q13
14891 Frank M. Fossen
Mobarak Hossain
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
Peter Toth
The Cost of Health Insurance and Entry into Entrepreneurship
Unavailable or expensive health insurance may hinder the transition of individuals from paid employment to entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 383-405)
I13, I11, J22, J23, L26
14890 D. Mark Anderson
Ron Diris
Raymond Montizaan
Daniel I. Rees
The Effects of Becoming a Physician on Prescription Drug Use and Mental Health Treatment
There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It is not clear, however, whether these phenomena are causal. We use data on Dutch ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 91, 102774.)
I1, I12, I18
14889 Emanuele Brancati
R&D Plans, Expectations, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the COVID-19 Shock in Italy
This paper takes advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to explore the determinants of firms' R&D choices around an exogenous shock. We make use of unique panel data on 7,800 Italian companies between ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2023, 67, 303-318)
O3, D22, D84
14887 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Jakub Lonsky
Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104447)
J1, J23, J24, R2
14884 Mario Lackner
Uwe Sunde
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
COVID-19 and the Forces behind Social Unrest
The unprecedented consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic have raised concerns about intensified social unrest, but evidence for such a link and the underlying channels is still lacking. We use a ...
(published as 'The forces behind social unrest: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic' in: Plos One, 2025, 20 (1), e0314165)
H
14883 Alan Auerbach
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Peter B. McCrory
Daniel Murphy
Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID-19 Recession
In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022, 126, 102669)
E62, E32, H3
14882 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Vibeke Jakobsen
Hanna Mac Innes
Peder J. Pedersen
Torun Österberg
Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Many European high-income countries face a rapid increase in the number of immigrants from low- and middle-income countries reaching the normal pension age. Thus, it is increasingly relevant to ask: ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (19), 4648 - 4669)
I32, J14, J15, J61
14881 Maja Adena
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Michal Myck
Monika Oczkowska
Home Alone: Widows' Well-Being and Time
Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 813 - 838)
I31, I19, J14
14880 Jocelyn Wikle
Riley Wilson
Access to Head Start and Maternal Labor Supply: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence
We explore how access to Head Start impacts maternal labor supply. By relaxing child care constraints, public preschool options like Head Start might lead mothers to reallocate time between ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 1081–1127)
J13, J22, H4, I28, H52, I38
14879 Fabio Montobbio
Jacopo Staccioli
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Marco Vivarelli
Labour-Saving Automation and Occupational Exposure: A Text-Similarity Measure
This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved ...
(published as 'Labour-saving automation: a direct measure of occupational exposure' in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 332–361)
O33, J24
14878 Hanan Morsy
Abebe Shimeles
Tiguene Nabassaga
Structural Change and Inequality in Africa
This paper examines how inequality could be tackled through structural transformation using unit record data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Africa. Results suggest inequality ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32 (S2), ii228–ii245, )
D30, D31, J2
14876 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Biased Survival Expectations and Behaviours: Does Domain Specific Information Matter?
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2022, 65, 285 - 317)
I18, D14, G22
14875 Mahvish Faran
Karl Taylor
The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan
This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (3), 1365-1408)
L2, M2, O14, O32, O33
14874 Mongoljin Batsaikhan
Mette Gørtz
John Kennes
Ran Sun Lyng
Daniel Monte
Norovsambuu Tumennasan
Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
We use a randomized survey to study how discrimination affects parenting choices. In our survey, parents with young children choose between two public daycares, which are described by testimonials ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024)
D15, D63, J15, I24
14873 Daniel Fackler
Claus Schnabel
Jens Stegmaier
Personnel Adjustments during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Did Co-Determination Make a Difference?
Using a unique dataset of establishments in Germany surveyed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this study investigates whether personnel adjustments during the crisis differed between establishments with ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2024, 58, 4 (2024))
J53, J63, M51
14872 Orley Ashenfelter
David Card
Henry S Farber
Michael R. Ransom
Monopsony in the Labor Market: New Empirical Results and New Public Policies
This paper summarizes the results of nearly a dozen new papers presented at the Sundance Conference on Monopsony in Labor Markets held in October 2018. These papers, to be published as a special ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S1-S10)
J0, J2, J3, L4
14867 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Brian Park
Rethinking Border Enforcement, Permanent and Circular Migration
Canonical models of migration feature border enforcement as a strategy to contain undocumented immigration by effectively exacting a mobility cost. This paper revisits the role of border enforcement ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105733)
F22, J61, J68
14866 Jonas Maibom
The Welfare Effects of Mandatory Reemployment Programs: Combining a Structural Model and Experimental Data
This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 607 - 640)
C9, I3, J64, J65, J68
14864 Joshua D. Merfeld
Peter Brummund
The Importance of Specification Choices When Analyzing Sectoral Productivity Gaps
A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes ...
(published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (4), 605-616)
J24, J43, O13, Q12, R23
14862 Xingang Wang
Sholeh A. Maani
Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach
The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic networks. We apply a spatial autoregressive network approach to account for the ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2021, 100 (1), 141-169)
J30, J31, Z13, Z18
14858 Eric Verhoogen
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1410–1464)
O1, L2, F1
14856 Martin Guzi
Stepan Mikula
Careful What You Say: The Effect of Manipulative Information on the 2013 Czech Presidential Run-off Election
We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that emerged during the Czech presidential run-off election to identify the impact of inaccurate and misleading information on electoral outcomes. A political ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2021, 209, 110152)
D72, P16, P14
14855 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Shining with the Stars: Competition, Screening, and Concern for Coworkers' Quality
We study how workers' concern for coworkers' ability (CfCA) affects competition in the labor market. We consider two firms offering nonlinear contracts to a unit mass of prospective workers. Firms ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2024, 144, 250-283.)
D82, L13, M54
14851 Jonas Jessen
C. Katharina Spieß
Sevrin Waights
Center-Based Care and Parenting Activities
We examine the relationship between parenting activities and center-based care using time diary and survey data for mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 84 (6), 1356 - 1379)
D13, I21, J13
14850 Mark Wooden
Trong-Anh Trinh
Irma Mooi-Reci
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia
Many studies have reported evidence of negative associations between fixed-term contract employment and fertility. With few exceptions, these studies assume that employment status is exogenous and ...
(published in: Social Forces, 2023, 102 (1), 330–352)
J13, J41
14849 Pedro Molina Ogeda
Emanuel Ornelas
Rodrigo R. Soares
Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (1), 236-280)
F13, D72, J51, F16, F14
14848 Satish Chand
Michael A. Clemens
Labour Mobility with Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply
How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2023, 56 (4), 462-486)
F22, J11, J24
14847 Michael Elsby
Jennifer C. Smith
Jonathan Wadsworth
Population Growth, Immigration and Labour Market Dynamics
This paper examines the role of population flows on labour market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations in the United Kingdom. Population flows are large, and cyclical, driven first ...
(published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1559–1584.)
E24, J6
14846 Matthew Harding
Kyle Kettler
Carlos Lamarche
Lala Ma
The (Alleged) Environmental and Social Benefits of Dynamic Pricing
This paper provides a cautionary tale about claiming environmental costs and benefits when justifying the use of public funds. Using the example of a dynamic pricing policy, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 205, 574-593)
D12, L11, L94, Q53, Q58
14845 Nick Drydakis
The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience ...
(published in: Julie. A. Gedro and Tonette. S. Rocco (eds), The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society, London: Routledge, 2024)
C93, E24, J15, J16, J71
14844 Ingo E. Isphording
marc diederichs
Reyn van Ewijk
Nico Pestel
Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
We use event-study models based on staggered summer vacations in Germany to estimate the effect of school re-openings after the summer of 2021 on the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Estimations are based on ...
(revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (26), e2201724119)
I12, I18, I28
14842 Martin Biewen
Stefan Glaisner
Rolf Kleimann
A Convenient Representation of the Wealth Distribution and More Evidence on Homeownership and Wealth Inequality in Euro Area Countries
This note proposes a convenient graphical representation of the wealth distribution and illustrates it with data from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). We also present ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The shape of the wealth distribution and differences in wealth inequality across Euro area countries' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 23, 1–25,)
D31, C14, R3
14841 Inés Berniell
Lucila Berniell
Dolores De la Mata
María Edo
Yarine Fawaz
Matilde P. Machado
Mariana Marchionni
Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects?
The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110462)
J13, J16, J24
14840 Timothy J. Hatton
Asylum Recognition Rates in Europe: Persecution, Policies and Performance
A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 76, 102267)
F51, J15, J61, K37
14838 Michael E. Darden
David Dowdy
Lauren Gardner
Barton H. Hamilton
Karen A. Kopecky
Melissa Marx
Nicholas W. Papageorge
Daniel Polsky
Kimberly Powers
Elizabeth Stuart
Matthew V. Zahn
Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together
Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policy makers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (7), 1291-1295)
C8, H0, I1, J
14836 Arjan Non
Ingrid M.T. Rohde
Andries de Grip
Thomas Dohmen
Mission of the Company, Prosocial Attitudes and Job Preferences: A Discrete Choice Experiment
We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how the mission of high-tech companies affects job attractiveness and contributes to self-selection of science and engineering graduates who ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 74, 2022, 102087)
J81, J82, M52
14835 Thomas Dohmen
Arjan Non
Tom Stolp
Reference Points and the Tradeoff between Risk and Incentives
We conduct laboratory experiments to investigate basic predictions of principal-agent theory about the choice of piece rate contracts in the presence of output risk, and provide novel insights that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 813–831)
D81, D91, M52
14834 Nauro F. Campos
Fabrizio Coricelli
Emanuele Franceschi
Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 142, 104014)
C33, F15, F55, O43, O52
14833 Inés Berniell
Yarine Fawaz
Anne Laferrere
Pedro Mira
Elizaveta Pronkina
The COVID-19 Curtain: Can Past Communist Regimes Explain the Vaccination Divide in Europe?
As of November 2021, all former Communist countries from Central and Eastern Europe exhibit lower vaccination rates than Western European countries. Can institutional inheritance explain, at least in ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 321, 115759)
I15, I12, P36, Z18
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