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14832 Francesco Pastore
Claudio Quintano
Antonella Rocca
The Duration of the School-To-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries: A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation
Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (7), 1579-1600.)
H52, I2, I24, J13, J64, J68
14831 Andrew C. Johnston
Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay
I conduct a discrete-choice experiment with responses linked to administrative teacher and student records to examine teacher preferences for compensation structure and working conditions. I ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (3), 310–346)
I20, J32, J45, M50
14830 Andreas Lichter
Max Löffler
Ingo E. Isphording
Thu-Van Nguyen
Felix Poege
Sebastian Siegloch
Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (1), 432- 463)
H25, H32, O31, O32
14828 Marcelo Bergolo
Gabriel Burdin
Santiago Burone
Mauricio De Rosa
Matias Giaccobasso
Martin Leites
Dissecting Inequality-Averse Preferences
Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 200, 782-802)
D63, D64, D81 C13, C91
14827 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Victoria Vernon
Telework and Time Use
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications ...
(published online in: Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics, 2023)
J22, J31, D13
14826 Manuel Bagues
Velichka Dimitrova
The Psychological Gains from COVID-19 Vaccination: Who Benefits the Most?
We quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on psychological well-being using information from a large-scale panel survey representative of the UK population. Exploiting exogenous variation in the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105304)
I18, I31
14825 Fengyan Dai
Lei Xu
Yu Zhu
Higher Education Expansion and Supply of Teachers in China
We examine the teacher labour market in China using the 2005 mini-Census, in the context of the transformation of the world's largest education system. We first document a significant increase not ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101732 )
I23, I26, J45
14824 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Mukta Gundi
Sagar Atre
Luu Bich Ngoc
Nguyen Thi Thieng
Anu Rammohan
Alcohol Consumption among Adults in Vietnam: Prevalence, Patterns, and Its Determinants
This study describes the prevalence and drinking patterns of alcohol consumption among adults (aged 15+ years) and explores the association between sociodemographic factors and alcohol consumption in ...
(published in: Journal of Substance Use,2023, 28 (1), 57-65 )
A10, I1
14821 Dominik Hangartner
Matti Sarvimäki
Judith Spirig
Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science
We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection ...
(published in: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association, 2021, 2(1), 1-24)
D72, J61
14819 Nicolas Herault
Stephen P. Jenkins
Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018
We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2022, 31 (3 - 4), 10 - 45)
D31, H24, H50, I38
14818 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Carlos Gracia-Lazaro
José Alberto Molina
Bike-Sharing: Network Efficiency and Demand Profiles
This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically, it focuses on the BIZI service in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), which was ...
(published as 'Increasing the use of public bicycles: efficiency and demand' in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022, 76, 745-754)
R40, C45
14817 Joseph-Simon Goerlach
Borrowing Constraints and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration
As wages in migrant sending countries catch up with those in destinations, migrants adjust on several margins, including their duration of stay, the number of migrations they undertake, as well as ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 205 - 243)
J61, D15, F22
14815 Francisca M. Antman
Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States
This essay discusses the multi-dimensional identities of the Hispanic population in the United States as represented in current surveys. It reviews some of the critical barriers in data collection ...
(published in: Advancing Anti-racist Economic Research and Policy, Perspectives and Resources on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, 2022.)
J15, Z13
14814 Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi
Roberto Nistico
Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions in Iran
This paper investigates the effect of economic sanctions on employment. We exploit the imposition of a series of unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 151, 105760.)
F16, F51, J21
14813 Valentine Jacobs
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private ...
(published in: De Economist, 2022, 170 (4), 459-501)
I24, I26, J15, J24, J31
14812 Iga Magda
Katarzyna Lipowska
Flexibility of Working Time Arrangements and Female Labor Market Outcome
We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility in working time arrangements in 25 European countries. We find that overall in ...
(published in: J.A. Molina (ed.) Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer, May 2022)
J13, J22, J32
14811 Kenneth A. Couch
Robert W. Fairlie
Huanan Xu
The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (2), 485 - 507)
J16, J2, J13
14809 Zhiming Cheng
Liwen Guo
Russell Smyth
Massimiliano Tani
Childhood Adversity and Energy Poverty
We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2022, 111, 106101)
J13, I32, Q41
14808 Abi Adams-Prassl
Teodora Boneva
Marta Golin
Christopher Rauh
The Value of Sick Pay
Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151, 104314)
J22, J32, J81
14807 Sébastien Michiels
Christophe Jalil Nordman
Suneha Seetahul
Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition and Labour Mobility in Rural India
By considering the case of rural South India, this study analyses whether individual skills and personality traits are able to facilitate labour market mobility of disadvantaged groups in the ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 697(1), 66 - 80)
J24, J31, J71, O12
14806 Francesca Modena
Enrico Rettore
Giulia Tanzi
Does Gender Matter? The Effect of High Performing Peers on Academic Performances
This paper exploits student-level administrative data on the population of Italian university students from 2006 to 2014 to analyze the effects of high performing (HP) male or female peers on ...
(published as 'Asymmetries in the gender effect of high-performing peers: Evidence from tertiary education' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102225)
I22, I23, C21, C35
14805 Krzysztof Makarski
Joanna Tyrowicz
Oliwia Komada
Efficiency versus Insurance: Capital Income Taxation and Privatizing Social Security
We study the interactions between capital income tax and social security privatization in the context of rising longevity. In an economy with idiosyncratic income shocks, redistributive defined ...
(published 'Capital income taxation and reforming social security in an OLG economy' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024, 165, 104878)
C68, D72, E62, H55, J26
14804 David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
On the Persistence of the China Shock
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2021, 381-476)
E24, F14, F16, J23, J31, L60, O47, R12, R23
14802 Vincent Boucher
Carlo L. Del Bello
Fabrizio Panebianco
Thierry Verdier
Yves Zenou
Education Transmission and Network Formation
We propose a model of intergenerational transmission of education wherein children belong to either highly educated or low-educated families. Children choose the intensity of their social activities ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 129 - 173)
D85, I21, Z13
14801 Carlos Díaz
Eleonora Patacchini
Thierry Verdier
Yves Zenou
Leaders in Juvenile Crime
This paper presents a new theory of crime where leaders transmit a crime technology and act as a role model for other criminals. We show that, in equilibrium, an individual's crime effort and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 192, 638 - 667)
C31, D85, K42
14799 Jonas Radbruch
Amelie Schiprowski
Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments
Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms or organizations. This paper studies how and why the interview assessment of a candidate depends on the other ...
(substantially revised version published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 10 April 2024)
D91, M51
14798 Anabela Carneiro
Pedro Portugal
Pedro Raposo
Paulo M. M. Rodrigues
The Persistence of Wages
This paper provides comprehensive and detailed empirical regression analyses of the sources of wage persistence. Exploring a rich matched employer-employee data set and the estimation of a dynamic ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 596 - 611)
J31, J63, J65, E24
14797 Malte Sandner
Alexander Patzina
Silke Anger
Sarah Bernhard
Hans Dietrich
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Well-Being, and Transitions to Post-secondary Education
This study examines the immediate and intermediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the well-being of two high school graduation cohorts (2020 and 2021). We also investigate how changes in ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 461 - 483)
I21, I18, J24
14796 Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
The Legacy of COVID-19 in Education
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (115), 609-668)
I20, H52, J24
14793 Karol Madoń
Iga Magda
Marta Palczyńska
Mateusz Smoter
What Works for Whom? Youth Labour Market Policy in Poland
This paper compares the relative effectiveness of selected active labour market policies available to young unemployed people in Poland over the 2015-2016 period. We use rich administrative data and ...
(published in: Gospodarka Narodowa / Polish Journal of Economics. 2024, 318 (2), 1-34.)
J08, J64, J68
14790 Xiaoying Gao
Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK: An Update
This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), to include the second national ...
(revised version published in : Health Economics, 2022, 31 (5), 912-920)
C1, D63, I12, I14
14789 Gabriella Conti
Stavros Poupakis
Peter Ekamper
Govert Bijwaard
Lambert H. Lumey
Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 53, 101372)
I10, J13
14788 Filippo Belloc
Gabriel Burdin
Luca Cattani
William Ellis
Fabio Landini
Coevolution of Job Automation Risk and Workplace Governance
This paper analyzes the interplay between the allocation of authority within firms and workers' exposure to automation risk. We propose an evolutionary model to study the complementary fit of job ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (3), 104441)
O33, J51, C73
14787 Sara Ayllón
Online Teaching and Gender Bias
I study the impact of online instruction on teaching evaluations at a higher education institution in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I show that in the semester when teaching ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 89, 102280)
J16, J71, I23, J45
14786 Michael Vlassopoulos
Abu Siddique
Tabassum Rahman
Debayan Pakrashi
Asadul Islam
Firoz Ahmed
Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic
In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of large-scale shocks (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters, political). This paper ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16(2), 422-55.)
I10, I12, I18, I31, O12
14785 Dalit Contini
Maria Laura Di Tommaso
Caterina Muratori
Daniela Piazzalunga
Lucia Schiavon
The COVID-19 Pandemic and School Closure: Learning Loss in Mathematics in Primary Education
Italy was the first Western country hit by Covid-19 in February 2020, responding with a tight lockdown and full school closure until the end of the school year. This paper estimates the effect of the ...
(published as 'Who Lost the Most? Mathematics Achievement during the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: B.E.Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2022, 22 (2), 399-408)
I21, I24
14784 Peter Siminski
Sin Hung Yu
The Correlation of Wealth between Parents and Children in Australia
We present the first estimates of intergenerational wealth correlation for Australia, using HILDA. The rank correlation varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2022, 55 (2), 195 - 214)
D31, J62, H00
14783 Uwe Jirjahn
Membership in Employers' Associations and Collective Bargaining Coverage in Germany
While there is a strong overlap between membership in employers' associations and collective bargaining coverage, the overlap is far from being perfect. Using unique firm-level data from Germany, ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2023, 44 (3), 798-826)
F23, F66, J51, J52
14782 Duong Trung Le
Thanh Minh Pham
Solomon Polachek
The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War
This paper examines the long-term health impact of Agent Orange, a toxic military herbicide containing dioxin that was used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 155, 105813)
N45, I10, Q53
14781 Catia Batista
Sandra Sequeira
Pedro C. Vicente
Closing the Gender Profit Gap?
We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the performance of female-led microenterprises in Mozambique. We find evidence that ...
(published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (12), 8515 - 9218, )
O15, O16, G53, J16
14780 Catia Batista
Marcel Fafchamps
Pedro C. Vicente
Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers
SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36 (4), 857 - 888)
D83, D64, O33
14779 Maria Bigoni
Matteo Ploner
Thi-Thanh-Tam Vu
The Right Person for the Right Job: Workers' Prosociality as a Screening Device
The impact of workers' non-pecuniary motivation on their productivity is a fundamental issue in labor economics. Previous studies indicate that prosocially motivated workers may perform better when ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 53 - 73)
C91, D63, D64
14778 Eva Sierminska
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices
We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102289)
J01, J16, J31
14776 Amit Loewenthal
Sami H. Miaari
Alexei Abrahams
How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict
States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate ...
(published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023, 40 (4), 441 - 463)
D72, D74, H56, J21, J45
14774 Lisa A. Cameron
Xin Meng
Dandan Zhang
Does Being 'Left–Behind' in Childhood Lead To Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million children being left-behind in rural villages when their parents migrate to the cities. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 675 - 693)
O12, O15, J12
14771 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity
Dibao receipt in rural and in urban areas of China is contrasted using household data from seven province-level units. The probability of Dibao-receipt is positively related to how many persons in ...
(published in: China: An International Journal (CIJ), 2022, 20 (3), 122 - 139 )
I38, J15, P36
14769 Erik Hornung
Guido Schwerdt
Maurizio Strazzeri
Religious Practice and Student Performance: Evidence from Ramadan Fasting
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 100-119)
I21, Z12, J24, O15
14767 Sam Desiere
Bart Cockx
How Effective Are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2022, 12(1) )
H22, J08, J18, J23, J38, J64, J65, J68
14766 Hai-Anh H Dang
Trong-Anh Trinh
Paolo Verme
Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835)
I15, J15, J21, J61, O15
14765 Roel M. W. J. Beetsma
Oliwia Komada
Krzysztof Makarski
Joanna Tyrowicz
The Political (In)Stability of Funded Social Security
We analyze the political stability of funded social security. Using a stylized theoretical framework we study the mechanisms behind governments capturing social security assets in order to lower ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, 133, 104237)
H55, D72, E17, E27
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