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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
14762 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Andrew Leigh
"Beauty Too Rich for Use": Billionaires' Assets and Attractiveness
We examine how the net worth of billionaires relates to their looks, as rated by 16 people of different gender and ethnicity. Surprisingly, their financial assets are unrelated to their beauty; nor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 73, 102153)
J24, J40, C24
14761 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566)
C43, D01, D31, D63, I31, P46
14760 Micheline Goedhuys
Michael Grimm
Aline Meysonnat
Eleonora Nillesen
Ann-Kristin Reitmann
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number ...
(published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964)
C43, D91, D39, J13
14758 David Card
Fabrizio Colella
Rafael Lalive
Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity
In spring 2005, Austria launched a campaign to inform employers and newspapers that gender preferences in job advertisements were illegal. At the time over 40% of openings on the nation's largest ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 21 August 2024)
J16, J68, J63
14755 Joop Adema
Till Nikolka
Panu Poutvaara
Uwe Sunde
On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
We exploit the unique design of a repeated survey experiment among students in four countries to explore the stability of risk preferences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relative to a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172)
D12, D91, G50
14754 Joan Costa-Font
Nilesh Raut
Courtney Van Houtven
Medicaid Expansion and the Mental Health of Spousal Caregivers
Health insurance expansions can exert wellbeing effects on individuals who provide informal care to their loved ones, reducing their experience of depression. This study exploits evidence from the ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1047–1084)
I18
14753 Joan Costa-Font
Nilesh Raut
Long-Term Care Partnership Effects on Medicaid and Private Insurance
Can the expansion of Medicaid, a means-tested health and long-term care insurance, be slowed down by incentivising the purchase of private long-term care insurance (LTCI)? We study the implementation ...
(published online in: Health Economics,15 March 2025 )
I18, H11, H24
14751 Michael Pesko
Casey Warman
Re-Exploring the Early Relationship between Teenage Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use Using Price and Tax Changes
In 2016, the Surgeon General used longitudinal cohort studies to conclude that youth e-cigarette use is strongly associated with cigarette use. We re-evaluate data from the period of time before the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (2),137 - 153)
I18, H71
14750 Rama Dasi Mariani
Furio C. Rosati
Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy
The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (4), 503 - 533)
D12, F22, J13, J61
14748 Tatyana Deryugina
David Molitor
The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity
Life expectancy varies substantially across local regions within a country, raising conjectures that place of residence affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (4), 147–170)
I10, R10
14745 Hannes Schwandt
Janet Currie
Marlies Bär
James Banks
Paola Bertoli
Aline Bütikofer
Sarah Cattan
Beatrice Zong-Ying Chao
Claudia Costa
Libertad González
Veronica Grembi
Kristiina Huttunen
René Karadakic
Lucy Kraftman
Sonya Krutikova
Stefano Lombardi
Peter Redler
None None
Ana Rodríguez-González
Kjell G. Salvanes
Paula Santana
Josselin Thuilliez
Eddy van Doorslaer
Tom Van Ourti
Joachim Winter
Bram Wouterse
Amelie Wuppermann
Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018
Although there is a large gap between Black and White American life expectancies, the gap fell 48.9% between 1990-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific ...
(published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (40), e210468411)
I14
14743 Sarah Flood
Joel McMurry
Aaron Sojourner
Matthew Wiswall
Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (2), 199–222)
I24, J13
14742 Eric Bonsang
Eve Caroli
Clémentine Garrouste
Gender Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Hypertension
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 10171)
I10, I12, J18
14741 Gordon B. Dahl
Claus Thustrup Kreiner
Torben Heien Nielsen
Benjamin Ly Serena
Understanding the Rise in Life Expectancy Inequality
We provide a novel decomposition of changing gaps in life expectancy between rich and poor into differential changes in age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (2), 566 - 575)
I14, J10
14737 Nicolas Herault
Dean R. Hyslop
Stephen P. Jenkins
Roger Wilkins
Rising Top-Income Persistence in Australia: Evidence from Income Tax Data
We use a new Australian longitudinal income tax dataset, Alife, covering 1991–2017, to examine levels and trends in the persistence in top-income group membership, focussing on the top 1%. We ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (1), 154-186)
D31, I31, C81
14735 Pelin Akyol
Murat Güray Kirdar
Does Education Really Cause Domestic Violence? Revisiting the Turkish Data
Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), ...
(published as 'Compulsory Schooling Reform and Intimate Partner Violence in Turkey' in: European Economic Review, 2022, 150, 104313.)
I21, I28, J12, J16, J24, O15, O18
14733 Nick Drydakis
Social Rejection, Family Acceptance, Economic Recession and Physical and Mental Health of Sexual Minorities
Utilizing two panel datasets covering the periods 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, the study examines whether social rejection, family acceptance, and economic conditions bear an association with self-rated ...
(published in: Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2022, 19, 1318–1340)
J70, I14, O52
14732 Christian Grund
Katja Rebecca Tilkes
Working Time Mismatch and Job Satisfaction - The Role of Employees' Time Autonomy and Gender
Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2023, 34, 4003-4025. )
J22, J28, J81, M5
14731 Claryn S. J. Kung
Stephen Pudney
Michael A. Shields
Economic Gradients in Social Health in Britain
Studies have found that loneliness is as bad as smoking or obesity for mortality risk, and the prevalence of loneliness is predicted to increase with ageing populations, more people living alone, and ...
(published as 'Economic gradients in loneliness, social isolation and social support: Evidence from the UK Biobank' in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 306, 115122)
I1, J1
14729 Oded Stark
Marcin Jakubek
Employer Sanctions: A Policy with a Pitfall?
This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be ...
(published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.): World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Volume 1: Immigration and the Labor Market: A Global View of Assimilation and its Aftermath, 2024, 205–223)
D21, I38, J21, J61, K31, L51
14728 Pia Schilling
Steven Stillman
The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country
Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102465)
J15, J61, Z13
14726 Sule Alan
Gozde Corekcioglu
Matthias Sutter
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention
We evaluate the impact of a program aiming at improving the workplace climate in corporations. The program is implemented via a clustered randomized design and evaluated with respect to the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (1), 151-203)
C93, M14, M53
14725 John T. Giles
Xiaoyan Lei
Gewei Wang
Yafeng Wang
Yaohui Zhao
One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (2), 188-210)
J26, O15, O17, O53
14724 Hannah Illing
Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle
The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 5, 2108–2147)
J63, J22, J23, J16
14723 Noemi Mantovan
Robert M. Sauer
John Wilson
The Effect of Work Schedule Control on Volunteering among Early Career Employees
Recent trends in the labor market see increasing numbers of workers having to deal with "schedule precarity" including volatile hours, rotating shift work, unpredictable work hours and lack of choice ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 60 (3), 536-562)
J10, J20, J30
14722 Lucía Macchia
Andrew J. Oswald
Physical Pain, Gender, and the State of the Economy in 146 Nations
Rationale: Physical pain is one of the most severe of human experiences. It is thus one of the most important to understand. Objective: This paper reports the first cross-country study of the links ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 287, 114332)
I10, I31
14720 Kalvin Bahia
Pau Castells
Genaro Cruz
Takaaki Masaki
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
Viviane Sanfelice
Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania
What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (2), 235–256)
F63, I31, L86, O12
14718 Luna Bellani
Stefano Ceolotto
Benjamin Elsner
Nico Pestel
Air Pollution Affects Decision-Making: Evidence from the Ballot Box
Does poor air quality affect decision-making? We study this question based on elections, in which millions of people decide on the same issue on the same day in different locations. We use ...
(published as 'The Political Fallout of Air Pollution' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(18), e2314428121)
D70, D72, D91, Q53
14717 Catia Batista
David McKenzie
Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab
We test different classic migration theories by using incentivized laboratory experiments to investigate how potential migrants decide between working in different destinations. We test theories of ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103826)
F22, O15, C91
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