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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14716 Murat Güray Kirdar
Ismet Koc
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur
School Integration of Refugee Children: Evidence from the Largest Refugee Group in Any Country
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the ...
(published as 'School Integration of Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85 102448.)
F22, I21, I28, O15
14715 Nattavudh Powdthavee
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Erwin Wong
Jonathan Yeo
Qi Yu Chan
When Face Masks Signal Social Identity: Explaining the Deep Face-Mask Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2021, 16(6), e0253195)
C9, I1
14713 Asadul Islam
Debayan Pakrashi
Soubhagya Sahoo
Liang Choon Wang
Yves Zenou
Gender Inequality and Caste: Field Experimental Evidence from India
Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 190, 111-124.)
J16, J15, I15, O12
14712 Vladimir Otrachshenko
Milena Nikolova
Olga Popova
Double-Edged Sword: Persistent Effects of Communism on Life Satisfaction
Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36(3), 1139–1185)
D60, I31, N00, P26, P36, P52
14711 Taiyo Fukai
Masato Ikeda
Daiji Kawaguchi
Shintaro Yamaguchi
COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, ...
(published as 'COVID-19 and the employment gender gap in Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2023, 68, 101256.)
D13, J13, J16, J21
14710 Xun Li
Weizheng Lai
Qianqian Wan
Xi Chen
Role of Professionalism in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does a Public Health or Medical Background Help?
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy response and performance for disease control and prevention within and across ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 71, 101733)
I18, H12, H75, P41
14709 Thomas Hofmarcher
Erik Plug
Specialization in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples
We examine time allocation decisions in same-sex and different-sex couples from a Beckerian comparative advantage perspective. In particular, we estimate the comparative advantage relationship ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 101995.)
D13, J15, J22
14708 Petter Lundborg
Erik Plug
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children
We introduce a novel strategy to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital, net of genetic skill transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 05 December 2024)
I24, J62
14707 Kerstin Unfried
Krisztina Kis-Katos
Tilman Poser
Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 113, 102633)
D74, Q25, Q54
14706 Alex Bryson
Andrew E. Clark
Colin P. Green
Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2022, 4 (3), 197-211 )
J28, J33, J54, J63, J81, M52
14705 Silvia Marchesi
Tania Masi
Saumik Paul
Project Aid and Firm Performance
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We ...
(published online as 'Aid Projects and Firm Performance' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024)
F35, O19, D22
14704 Nick Drydakis
Sex Workers' Self-Reported Physical and Mental Health in Greece: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' ...
(published in: Culture Health and Sexuality, 2022, 24 (11), 1514 - 1530)
J81, G01, I10, I12, I18
14703 Peter Brummund
Joshua D. Merfeld
Should Farmers Farm More? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households
According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence ...
(published in: Agricultural Economics, 2022, 53 (2), 289 - 306)
J24, J43, O13, Q12, R23
14702 Nathan Kettlewell
Agnieszka Tymula
The Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey
This paper describes the Australian Twins Economic Preferences Survey (ATEPS). The dataset comprises a wide variety of preference and behavioral measures (risk aversion, impatience, ambiguity ...
(published in: Twin Research and Human Genetics, 2021, 24 (6), 365-370)
D90, D91, I10, Y90
14701 Imran Aziz
Matias Cortes
Between-Group Inequality May Decline despite a Rising Skill Premium
A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102063.)
J31, J21, J24
14700 Nick Drydakis
Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece
The study examines whether adverse working conditions for immigrants in Greece bear an association with deteriorated physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings ...
(published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022, 95 (2), 539 - 556)
J81, O15, E24, I14
14698 Henning Hermes
Philipp Lergetporer
Frauke Peter
Simon Wiederhold
Behavioral Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the ...
(this is an earlier version of: IZA DP No. 16915: Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment)
I21, J13, J18, J24, C93
14697 John Forth
Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
Alex Bryson
The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials
Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (2), 259-290 )
J16, J31, M52, M54
14696 Valentine Fays
Benoît Mahy
François Rycx
Wage Differences According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Working More Upstream in GVCs
This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to ...
(published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2023, 37 (2), 319-342)
J15, J31, F16
14695 Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
The Implications of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height for Measurement Error in BMI
We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self-reported body weight and height. We find that there is a systematic age gradient in ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110101)
I10, C18, C50
14694 Gabriel Burdin
Takao Kato
Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems: International Evidence
We describe the nature, scope and effects of various non-mandated participatory work practices in Japan, the U.S. and Europe through the lens of complementarity in organizations. Specifically, rather ...
(revised version published as 'Complementarity in Employee Participation Systems' in: Zimmermann K. (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer Nature, 2022)
M5, J5
14692 Simone Schotte
Michael Danquah
Robert Osei
Kunal Sen
The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Evidence from Ghana
In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies on employment outcomes, using Ghana as a case study. We take advantage of a ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32 (S2), ii10 - ii33)
I18, J46, J63, O55
14691 Daron Acemoglu
Nicolas Ajzenman
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Martin Fiszbein
Carlos Molina
(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
Using large-scale survey data covering more than 110 countries and exploiting within-country variation across cohorts and surveys, we show that individuals with longer exposure to democracy display ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 16 May 2024.)
P16
14684 Umair Ali
Chris M. Herbst
Christos A. Makridis
Minimum Quality Regulations and the Demand for Child Care Labor
Minimum quality regulations are often justified in the child care market because of the presence of information frictions between parents and providers. However, regulations can also have unintended ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (3), 660-695)
H75, J21, I28
14683 Clément Carbonnier
Clément Malgouyres
Loriane Py
Camille Urvoy
Who Benefits from Tax Incentives? The Heterogeneous Wage Incidence of a Tax Credit
Do workers gain from lower business taxes, and why? We estimate how a large corporate income tax credit in France is passed on to wages and explore the firm- and employee-level underlying mechanisms. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104577)
D22, H25, H32
14681 Mee Jung Kim
Kyung Min Lee
John S. Earle
Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?
We estimate the impact of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) on small business lending in lower-income neighborhoods. Using 2004-2016 panel data on census tracts, we apply a combined regression ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110146)
G28, G21, R58
14680 Paul Hufe
Andreas Peichl
Daniel Weishaar
Lower and Upper Bound Estimates of Inequality of Opportunity for Emerging Economies
Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal of distributive justice. In spite of its wide acceptance and economic relevance, standard estimation approaches suffer from data limitations ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2022, 58, 395 - 427)
D31, D63, I32
14678 Daniel Borbely
Markus Gehrsitz
Stuart McIntyre
Gennaro Rossi
Graeme Roy
Early-Years Multi-Grade Classes and Pupil Attainment
We study the effect of exposure to older, more experienced classroom peers resulting from the widespread use of multi-grade classes in Scottish primary schools. For identification, we exploit that a ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 2023, 85, (6), 1295-1319)
C36, H52, I21, I26, I28, J24
14676 Jamin D. Speer
Bye Bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the Leaky STEM Pipeline
More than two-thirds of STEM jobs are held by men. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the STEM pipeline from high school to mid-career in the United States, decomposing the gender gap in STEM ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 93, 102371)
J01, J15, J16
14675 Samuel Lüthi
Stefan C. Wolter
Is Being Competitive Always an Advantage? Degrees of Competitiveness, Gender, and Premature Work Contract Termination
In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102457)
C9, J16, J24
14674 Huifu Nong
Qing Zhang
Hongjia Zhu
Rong Zhu
Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Children's Academic Performance in China
This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of students from poor households. We use the longitudinal academic records of a ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68, 951–969)
I21, I32, I38
14672 Tushar Bharati
Simon Chang
Qing Li
The Effect of Tertiary Education Expansion on Fertility: A Note on Identification
We draw attention to two identification issues with previous studies that utilized tertiary education expansion to estimate the causal effect of education on fertility: (i) the mis-categorization of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 212, 1029-1055)
I23, J13
14671 Nick Drydakis
Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Labor Market against Gay Men
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments ...
(published in:Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1027 - 1058)
C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71, J83
14670 Chris M. Herbst
Esra Kose
Head Start Funding Expansions and Program Inputs
Our paper provides some of the first evidence on the effect of the Head Start funding expansions on program inputs. We take advantage of the county-year variation in funding increases that were ...
(published in: Public Finance Review, 2024, 52 (1), 42-77)
H52, I28
14668 Vitus Püttmann
Jens Ruhose
Stephan L. Thomsen
Academics' Attitudes toward Engaging in Public Discussions - Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Engagement Conditions
Academics are increasingly expected to engage in public discussions. We study how engagement conditions affect academics' engagement attitudes via a survey experiment among 4,091 tenured professors ...
(published online in: Research in Higher Education, 5 December 2022)
I23, O33
14666 Monique Löwe
Ulf Rinne
Hendrik Sonnabend
Gender Role Models and Early Career Decisions
This paper analyzes the link between the subject choices of German students in upper secondary school and teacher gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30 (11), 1526 - 1530)
I21, J16, J24
14665 Silvia Mendolia
Agne Suziedelyte
Anna Zhu
Have Girls Been Left behind during the COVID-19 Pandemic? Gender Differences in Pandemic Effects on Children's Mental Wellbeing
Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 214, 110458)
I10, I31, J13
14661 Emily A. Beam
Stella Quimbo
The Impact of Short-Term Employment for Low-Income Youth: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
We use a randomized field experiment to test the causal impact of short-term work experience on employment and school enrollment among disadvantaged, in-school youth in the Philippines. This ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (6), 1379–1393.)
J24, J08, O15
14660 Manu Raghav
Timothy M. Diette
Greek Myth or Fact? The Role of Greek Houses in Alcohol and Drug Violations on American Campuses
Greek-letter student social groups, better known as fraternities and sororities, are a ubiquitous feature on many American higher education campuses. These organizations, especially fraternities, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 54 (55), 6406 - 6417)
I23, K42
14659 Damian Clarke
Manuel Llorca-Jaña
Daniel Pailañir
The Use of Quantile Methods in Economic History
Quantile regression and quantile treatment effect methods are powerful econometric tools for considering economic impacts of events or variables of interest beyond the mean. The use of quantile ...
(published in: Historical Methods, 2023, 56 (2), 115-132)
N30, B41, C21, C22
14658 Marco Mello
Giuseppe Moscelli
Voting, Contagion and the Trade-Off between Public Health and Political Rights: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Italian 2020 Polls
We exploit a quasi-experimental setting provided by an election day with multiple polls to estimate the effect of voters' turnout on the spread of new COVID-19 infections and to quantify the policy ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 1025 - 2052)
C23, D72, H51, I18
14657 S.M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi
Nidhiya Menon
Agnes Quisumbing
The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh
This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 – 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2022, 294, 114704)
Q54, I15, O15, Q56, J13
14656 David W. Johnston
Nidhiya Menon
Income and Views on Minimum Living Standards
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on items and activities that no one in today's society should have to go without. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 199, 18 - 34)
D31, D63, D64, H24, H31
14654 Terhi Maczulskij
Mika Haapanen
Antti Kauhanen
Krista Riukula
Dark Half: Decentralized Bargaining and Well-Being at Work
Using information on collective agreements and administrative data on mental ill-health, sickness absence, and job separations, we study the effect of decentralization on well-being at work in ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 55, 101433)
J31, J51, J52
14653 Weibo Yan
Peng Nie
Child Education-Induced Migration and Its Impact on the Economic Behaviors of Migrated Households in China
Using the 2011-2013 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper utilizes the quarter of the year in which a child was born as an instrumental variable to measure child education shock and explores its ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (7), 691-709)
O15, I28, D14
14651 Silvia Granato
Enkelejda Havari
Gianluca Mazzarella
Sylke V. Schnepf
Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications
Erasmus+ is one of the most popular programmes financed by the European Union. It provides international mobility grants to university students while staying enrolled at their home university. This ...
(published as 'Study abroad programmes and student outcomes: Evidence from Erasmus' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 99, 102510)
I23, D04
14650 Feicheng Wang
Zhe Liang
Hartmut Lehmann
Import Competition and Informal Employment: Empirical Evidence from China
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of ...
(thoroughly revised version appeared as 'Import Competition and the Rise of Precarious Employment. Evidence from Individual-level and Firm-level Data in China' in: Labour Economics , No. 97, December 2025.)
F14, F16, F66, J46
14648 Rong Zhu
Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform
This paper examines the empirical link between retirement and the supply of volunteer labor, using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. To identify ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190, 674–690)
H55, J22, J26
14647 Murat Güray Kirdar
Ivan Lopez Cruz
Betül Türküm
The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime
Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 568 - 582)
J15, K42, D74
14646 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Francisca M. Antman
De Facto Immigration Enforcement, ICE Raid Awareness, and Worker Engagement
We explore whether fear of apprehension affects immigrants' labor market engagement by examining how ICE removals due to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (1), 373 - 391)
J15, J61, J2, J3
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