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14586 Zhiming Cheng
Massimiliano Tani
Haining Wang
Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship
We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 102, 105469)
I32, L26, Q41
14585 Chris Riddell
W. Craig Riddell
Welfare versus Work under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments
The Income Maintenance Experiments have received renewed attention due to growing international interest in a Basic Income. Proponents viewed a Negative Income Tax as a replacement for traditional ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 427 - 467)
C9, I38, J2
14583 Anthony Fakhoury
Ali Fakih
Government Intervention and Business Response as Determinants of Business Continuity amid COVID-19: The Case of Jordan and Morocco
This paper provides new insights into the role of governments and businesses in responding to pandemics in the Arab region. It uses the COVID-19 World Bank Enterprise Survey Follow-up dataset to ...
(published in: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 2023, 17 (2), 196-219)
H11, H12, O53
14582 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Camila Comunello
Alex Clymo
Annette Jäckle
Ludo Visschers
David Zentler-Munro
Search and Reallocation in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the UK labour market has been extremely heterogeneous, with strong variation both by occupation and industrial sector. The extent to which workers adjust their ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102328)
E24, J23, J63
14580 Anna Adamecz
Morag Henderson
Nikki Shure
Intergenerational Educational Mobility – The Role of Non-cognitive Skills
While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential 'first in family' or first-generation students make it to ...
(published in: Education Economcis, 2024, 32 (1), 59 - 78)
I24, J24
14579 John Chiwuzulum Odozi
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we explore the average effect of exposure to violent ...
(published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 401 - 435. )
Q10, Q12, O1, D74
14578 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Almudena Sevilla
Temporal Flexibility, Breaks at Work, and the Motherhood Wage Gap
We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. ...
(published in: J.A. Molina (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer, 2022, 83-105)
D63, J16, J22, J24, J31
14577 Lucía Echeverría
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Who Uses Green Mobility? Exploring Profiles in Developed Countries
Mobility gives individuals access to different daily activities, facilities, and places, but at the cost of imposing environmental burdens. The sustainable growth of society is linked to green ...
(published in: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2022, 163, 247 - 265)
R40, J22, O57
14576 Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser
Adi Shany
Immigration and the Short- and Long-Term Impact of Improved Prenatal Conditions
This paper investigates the effects of immigration from a developing country to a developed country during pregnancy on offspring's outcomes. We focus on intermediate and long-term outcomes, using ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (662), 2494 - 2529)
I24, I25, I15, J15
14575 Jorge Luis García
James J. Heckman
Victor Ronda
The Lasting Effects of Early Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans
This paper demonstrates multiple beneficial impacts of a program promoting inter-generational mobility for disadvantaged African-American children and their children. The program improves outcomes of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 131 (6), 1477 - 1506)
J13, I28, C93, H43
14573 Solmaz Moslehi
Jaai Parasnis
Massimiliano Tani
Josephina Vejayaratnam
Assaults during Lockdown in NSW and Victoria
We study the relationship between Covid-19 lockdowns and domestic assaults in New South Wales and Victoria using police data on crime by Local Government Area over the period 2019-2020. We apply both ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2021, 24, 199 - 212)
I10, K42
14572 Maria Laura Di Tommaso
Dalit Contini
Dalila De Rosa
Francesca Ferrara
Daniela Piazzalunga
Ornella Robutti
Tackling the Gender Gap in Mathematics with Active Learning Methodologies
We implement a teaching methodology aimed at improving primary school children's mathematical skills. The methodology, grounded in active and cooperative learning, focuses on peer interaction, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 100, 102538)
I21, I24, J16, C93
14571 Sonia Oreffice
Dario Sansone
Sissy That Walk: Transportation to Work by Sexual Orientation
We analyze differences in mode of transportation to work by sexual orientation, using the American Community Survey 2008-2019. Individuals in same-sex couples are significantly less likely to drive ...
(revised version published as 'Transportation to work by sexual orientation' in: PLoS ONE , 2022, 17(2), e0263687 )
D10, J15, Q50, R40
14570 Joan Costa-Font
Sarah Flèche
Ricardo Pagan
The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is currently implemented by more than seventy countries, yet we do not have a clear knowledge of how it affects individuals' welfare. Using a regression discontinuity ...
(published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 547 - 568)
I18, K2, I31
14569 Clément Malgouyres
Thierry Mayer
Clément Mazet-Sonilhac
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms: Comment
Suárez Serrato and Zidar (2016) identify state corporate tax incidence in a spatial equilibrium model with imperfectly mobile firms. Their identification argument rests on comparative-statics ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (8), 2270 - 2286)
H22, H25, H32, H71, R23, R51
14568 Farzana Afridi
Kanika Mahajan
Nikita Sangwan
The Gendered Effects of Climate Change: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture
Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower ...
(published as 'The Gendered Effects of Droughts: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102227)
Q54, J16, J43, J60
14566 Anustup Kundu
Kunal Sen
Multigenerational Mobility in India
Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility that is, status transmission across three generations. We ...
(published as 'Multigenerational Mobility Among Males in India' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (2), 395 - 418)
J62, J15, O12
14565 Arezou Zaresani
Miguel Olivo-Villabrille
Return-to-Work Policies' Clawback Regime and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs
Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment and using administrative data, we examine the effects of the return-to-work policies' clawback regime in Disability Insurance (DI) programs on beneficiaries' ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102215)
D3, H3, I3, J3
14561 Lídia Farré
Francesc Ortega
Family Ties, Geographic Mobility and the Gender Gap in Academic Aspirations
This paper provides new evidence supporting that gender differences in post-graduate educational choices contribute to the glass ceiling in the labor market. We study the decision to pursue an ...
(published as 'Geographic mobility of college students and the gender gap in academic aspirations' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102550)
J3, J7
14559 Sofoklis Goulas
Silvia Griselda
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Compulsory Class Attendance versus Autonomy
Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education requires a solid grasp of the impact of student autonomy on learning. In this paper, we estimate the effect of an increased autonomy ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212: 935-981)
I26
14558 Philippe Wanner
Marco Pecoraro
Massimiliano Tani
Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?
This paper uses linked Swiss administrative and survey data to examine the relationship between educational mismatch in the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2021, 37, 959 - 995)
J15, J24, J61, O15
14557 Semih Tumen
Michael Vlassopoulos
Jackline Wahba
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children
Despite efforts to integrate refugee children into host country education systems, their low school attachment remains a major policy challenge. Teachers play a key role in keeping students attached ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, August 2023)
I21, I28, J15
14555 Kevin Pineda-Hernández
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
How Collective Bargaining Shapes Poverty: New Evidence for Developed Countries
Although many studies point to the significant influence of collective bargaining institutions on earnings inequalities, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, 60 (4), 895-928)
C23, C26, I32, I38, J51, J52
14554 Simon Commander
Ruta Prieskienyte
The Political Economy of Kazakhstan: A Case of Good Economics, Bad Politics?
Can autocracies and their associated institutions successfully implement economic policies that promote growth and investment? Can 'good economics' somehow offset the effects of 'bad' politics? ...
(published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2022, 8 (2), 122 - 158)
D72, H11, L14, P26
14553 Andrea Albanese
Francesco Fallucchi
Bertrand Verheyden
Can a Supranational Medicines Agency Restore Trust After Vaccine Suspensions? The Case of Vaxzevria
Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (11), e02777554)
I12, I18, C21, H12, H40
14551 Boris Hirsch
Philipp Lentge
Non-Base Compensation and the Gender Pay Gap
This paper investigates whether non-base compensation contributes to the gender pay gap. In wage decompositions, we find that lower bonus payments to women explain about 10% of the gap at the mean ...
(published in: Labour, 2022, 36 (3), 277-301)
J31, J71
14550 Libertad González
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Gender Norms and Intimate Partner Violence
We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178 (C), 223-248.)
I1, Z1
14549 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Ryuichi Tanaka
Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work: Evidence from Japan
Using individual-level data from the National Family Research of Japan Survey (1999, 2004 and 2009) and exploiting variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 15 - 36)
J16, J22, Z13
14548 Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights
We use a difference-in-differences model with individual fixed effects to evaluate a 1999 Spanish law granting employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407)
C23, J16, J18, J62
14544 Kseniya Abanokova
Hai-Anh H Dang
Poverty in Russia: A Bird's-Eye View of Trends and Dynamics in the past Quarter of Century
Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of ...
(published in: Jacques Silber (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar Press, 2023)
C15, D31, I31, O10, O57
14543 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Diogo Britto
Paolo Pinotti
Breno Sampaio
Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence
We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data ...
(forthcoming in: Review of Economic Studies)
J16, J08
14542 Oded Stark
Menopause as a Regulatory Device for Matching the Demand for Children with Its Supply: A Hypothesis
Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of the duration of a biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 42, 101001.)
D64, D90, J13, J14
14540 Emilia Del Bono
Greta Morando
For Some, Luck Matters More: The Impact of the Great Recession on the Early Careers of Graduates from Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds
This paper uses variation in unemployment caused by the 2008 recession to analyse socio- economic gaps in graduate outcomes. Our data comes from a survey which collects information on several cohorts ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (3), 869 - 893)
E32, I23, I24, I26, J62
14539 Diego de la Fuente Stevens
Panu Pelkonen
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106096)
J4, J15, J31, O54, Z1, Z13
14538 David Dorn
Josef Zweimüller
Migration and Labor Market Integration in Europe
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35(2), 49-76)
F22, F53, J31, J61
14537 David L. Dickinson
David Masclet
Unethical Decision Making and Sleep Restriction: Experimental Evidence
Recent examinations into the cognitive underpinnings of ethical decision making has focused on understanding whether honesty is more likely to result from deliberative or unconscious decision ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023,141, 484-502.)
C91, D91, D63
14536 David L. Dickinson
David M. McEvoy
David Bruner
The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for personal and workplace settings. We experimentally manipulated participant sleep ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.)
J52, D74, D90, C92, D83
14535 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Yudan Zhang
Self-Employment in Rural China: Its Development, Characteristics, and Relation to Income
The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from ...
(published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 136-165)
L26, M13, O12, P32
14533 Alex Davenport
David Dorn
Peter Levell
Import Competition and Public Attitudes Towards Trade
We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the ...
(also available as: IFS Report no. 176, 2020)
F10, F16, F60
14532 Francesco Devicienti
Bernardo Fanfani
Firms' Margins of Adjustment to Wage Growth: The Case of Italian Collective Bargaining
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 107 - 149)
J00, J23, J24, J31, J38, J58, L13
14531 Terry Sicular
Xiuna Yang
Björn Anders Gustafsson
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding ...
(published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 5 - 27)
D31,O15, O53, P3
14530 Erling Barth
Harald Dale-Olsen
Pal Schone
Kjersti Misje Ostbakken
Chutes and Ladders? Job Opportunities for Generation COVID
With a focus on jobs for youth, this paper analyses the development of job postings in Norway during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Jobs for youth are defined by the top ...
(published online in: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2024)
J23, J6, J63
14529 Eliana Carranza
Robert Garlick
Kate Orkin
Neil Rankin
Job Search and Hiring with Two-Sided Limited Information about Workseekers' Skills
We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (11), 3547 - 3583)
J23, J24, J31, J41, O15, O17
14528 Alex Dickson
Markus Gehrsitz
Jonathan Kemp
Does a Spoonful of Sugar Levy Help the Calories Go Down? An Analysis of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy
This study evaluates the effects of the 2018 UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on soft drinks prices, sales, reformulation activities, and consequently calories consumed. We combine novel electronic point ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
H21, H23, H51, I12, I18
14524 James Albrecht
Xiaoming Cai
Pieter A. Gautier
Susan Vroman
On the Foundations of Competitive Search Equilibrium with and without Market Makers
The literature offers two foundations for competitive search equilibrium, a Nash approach and a market-maker approach. When each buyer visits only one seller (or each worker makes only one job ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2023, 208, 105605)
C78, D44, D83
14523 Jose C. Galdo
Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development
This study examines whether the random allocation of single and joint saving accounts to cash crop farmers in rural Ethiopia is associated with changes in decision-making authority and control over ...
(updated version published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 29 May 2024)
C93, D14, G21, J43, I21, O12, R20
14522 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Arka Roy Chaudhuri
Saattvic
Measuring Performance: Ranking State Success over Two Decades in India
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2022, 83, 101550)
H4, I38, O18, C43, R42
14521 Giuseppe Albanese
Vincenzo Carrieri
Maria Maddalena Speziali
Looking for a Star: Evaluating the Effect of the Cohesion Policy on Regional Well-Being
This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds ...
(published online as 'Beyond GDP: assessing the impact of the 2007–13 EU Cohesion Policy' in: Regional Studies, 03 Jun 2024)
C21, H51, H52, I31, R11
14520 Marion Goussé
Marion Leturcq
More or Less Unmarried. The Impact of Legal Settings of Cohabitation on Labour Market Outcomes
We study how different levels of protection upon separation affect the labour market behaviour of unmarried cohabiting partners. In Canada, unmarried cohabitation becomes a legal status after one ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 149, 104259)
J12, J22, J18, K36
14519 Maurice Kugler
Mariana Viollaz
Daniel Duque
Isis Gaddis
David Newhouse
Amparo Palacios-Lopez
Michael Weber
How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
This paper investigates the impacts of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment of different types of workers in developing countries. Employment outcomes are taken from a ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 170, 106331)
E24, J15, J16, J21
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