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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
14645 Richard A. Easterlin
Why Does Happiness Respond Differently to an Increase vs. Decrease in Income?
The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 209, 200 - 204)
I31, D60, O10, O05
14644 Andrew I. Friedson
Moyan Li
Katherine Meckel
Daniel I. Rees
Daniel W. Sacks
Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run
Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 222, 104877)
H2, I10, I12
14643 Aboozar Hadavand
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Wesley W. Wilson
Publishing Economics: How Slow? Why Slow? Is Slow Productive? Fixing Slow?
Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in other social sciences and finance. It is even relatively slower at the extremes. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (1), 269 - 293)
A11, B20
14640 Franz Buscha
Emma Gorman
Patrick Sturgis
Selective Schooling Has Not Promoted Social Mobility in England
In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share ...
(published as 'Selective schooling and social mobility in England' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102336)
I21, I24, I28, J18, J24
14638 Julia Schmidtke
Clemens Hetschko
Ronnie Schöb
Gesine Stephan
Michael Eid
Mario Lawes
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being of Workers: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data
Using individual monthly panel data from December 2018 to December 2020, we estimate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and two lockdowns on the mental health and subjective well-being of German ...
(revised version published as 'Does Worker Well-Being Adapt to a Pandemic? An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Panel Data' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (3), 840 - 861)
I31, I19
14637 Ingrid Huitfeld
Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Jan Sebastian Nimczik
Andrea Weber
Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach
This paper develops a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 661-688)
J31, J62, M5
14636 Christos A. Makridis
Barry Hirsch
The Labor Market Earnings of Veterans: Is Military Experience More or Less Valuable than Civilian Experience?
We assess the labor market experiences of military veterans, focusing on three major outcomes, among others, controlling for a wide array of demographic characteristics and industry and occupational ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2021, 42 (3-4), 303-333)
J3, J4, J44
14635 Apostolos Davillas
Andrew Burlinson
Hui-Hsuan Liu
Getting Warmer: Fuel Poverty, Objective and Subjective Health and Well-Being
This paper uses data from Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study to explore the association between fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported ...
(revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2022, 106, 105794)
I12, I31, I32, Q4
14634 Patrick Kline
Evan K. Rose
Christopher R. Walters
Systemic Discrimination among Large U.S. Employers
We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (4), 1963 - 2036)
C11, C9, C93, J7, J71, J78, K31, K42
14633 Eric Bonsang
Joan Costa-Font
Sonja C. de New
Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 204, 466 - 489)
I18, D15
14632 Jeffrey R. Bloem
Andrew J. Oswald
The Analysis of Human Feelings: A Practical Suggestion for a Robustness Test
Governments, multinational companies, and researchers today collect unprecedented amounts of data on human feelings. These data provide information on citizens' happiness, levels of customer ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 689 - 710)
C18, C25, I31, I39
14631 Hai-Anh H Dang
Peter F. Lanjouw
Data Scarcity and Poverty Measurement
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad ...
(published as 'Regression-based imputation for poverty measurement in data-scarce settings' in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023, chapter 13)
C15, I32, O15
14630 Maksim Belitski
Christina Guenther
Alexander S. Kritikos
Roy Thurik
Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609)
L26, J38, I18
14628 Andrew Seltzer
Jonathan Wadsworth
The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 91, 101553.)
N94, J39, N34
14621 Alessandro Cigno
Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook fo Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022)
Z1, C78, D01, D02, D13, J13
14619 Jing Liu
Michael S. Hayes
Seth Gershenson
From Referrals to Suspensions: New Evidence on Racial Disparities in Exclusionary Discipline
We use novel data on disciplinary referrals, including those that do not lead to suspensions, to better understand the origins of racial disparities in exclusionary discipline. We find significant ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 141, 103453)
I2, J7
14618 Peter J. Kuhn
Kailing Shen
What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (4), 1013 - 1048)
J16, J63, J71
14617 Daron Acemoglu
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Kjell G. Salvanes
Matti Sarvimäki
The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 Folk School Reform
Upon assuming power for the first time in 1935, the Norwegian Labour Party delivered on its promise for a major schooling reform. The reform raised minimum instruction time in less developed rural ...
(published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 24 June 2024)
P16, I28, J26
14616 Sam Parsons
Alex Bryson
Alice Sullivan
Teenage Conduct Problems: A Lifetime of Disadvantage in the Labour Market?
Using data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970 we investigate the impact of teenage conduct problems on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 78 (1), 60 - 80)
I12, J20, J64
14615 Attila Gyetvai
Maria Zhu
Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
Which former coworkers help displaced workers find jobs? We answer this question by studying occupational similarity in job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this ...
(forthcoming in: Labour Economics)
J64, D85, J24
14614 Philippe Sterkens
Ralf Caers
Marijke De Couck
Michael Geamanu
Victor Van Driessche
Stijn Baert
Costly Mistakes: Why and When Spelling Errors in Resumes Jeopardise Interview Chances
Earlier research has associated spelling errors in resumes with reduced hiring chances. However, the analysis of hiring penalties due to spelling errors has thus far been restricted to white-collar ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 18 (4), e0283280)
C91, I21, J24
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