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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
14488 Alvaro Calderon
Vasiliki Fouka
Marco Tabellini
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (1), 165–200, )
D72, J15, N92
14487 Zichen Deng
Maarten Lindeboom
Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (4), 771-787)
I12, J11, C21, C26
14485 Vincenzo Carrieri
Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
Equality of Opportunity and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
Using nine waves of data from Understanding Society (UKHLS), we study the expansion of higher education in the UK, since the landmark Robbins Report in 1963, and its consequences for levels of and ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (4), 861-85.)
C1, D63, I12, I14
14484 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Patricia Funk
Nagore Iriberri
Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists
We study the selection of Fellows of the Econometric Society, using a new data set of publications and citations for over 40,000 actively publishing economists since the early 1900s. Conditional on ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (5), 1937-1971)
J71, I23
14483 Daniel Kreisman
Jonathan Smith
Bondi Arifin
Labor Market Signaling and the Value of College: Evidence from Resumes and the Truth
How do college non-completers list schooling on their resumes? The negative signal of not completing might outweigh the positive signal of attending but not persisting. If so, job-seekers might hide ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1820-1849)
J01, J24
14481 Allan Webster
Sangeeta Khorana
Francesco Pastore
The Effects of COVID-19 on Employment, Labour Markets and Gender Equality in Central America
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13 (1), 1-43.)
I18, J23, J28, J65
14480 Bilge Erten
Pinar Keskin
Does Knowledge Empower? Education, Legal Awareness and Intimate Partner Violence
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2022, 28 (4), 29 - 59)
J12, J16, I25
14478 Mathias Huebener
Jonas Jessen
Daniel Kühnle
Michael Oberfichtner
A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave
Motherhood and parental leave interrupt employment relationships, likely imposing costs on firms. We document that mothers who are difficult to replace internally take shorter leave and that their ...
(published as "Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firms’ Employment" in The Economic Journal, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae114)
J16, J18, J24
14476 Yann Algan
Clément Malgouyres
Thierry Mayer
Mathias Thoenig
The Economic Incentives of Cultural Transmission: Spatial Evidence from Naming Patterns across France
This paper studies how economic incentives influence cultural transmission, using a crucial expression of cultural identity: Child naming decisions. Our focus is on Arabic versus Non-Arabic names ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (642), 437 - 470)
Z1, J3
14475 Joan Costa-Font
Caroline Rudisill
Sayward Harrison
Luca Salmasi
The Social Value of a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Willingness to Pay Estimates from Four Western Countries
SARS-CoV-2 vaccines give rise to positive externalities on population health, society and the economy in addition to protecting the health of vaccinated individuals. Hence, the social value of such a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (8), 1818 - 1835 )
H23, H42, I18
14474 Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio
Pablo Agnese
Does Compliance with Financial Fair Play Rules Improve the Football Clubs' Sport Performance and Their Chances to Reach UEFA Competitions?
This paper evaluates the European football clubs' compliance with UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the effect of financial stability on sport achievements. The empirical analysis uses ...
(published as 'To comply or not to comply? How a UEFA wage-to-revenue requirement might affect the sport and managerial performance of soccer clubs' in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023, 44 (2), 767 - 786)
D22, J24, J33
14473 Jaime Arellano-Bover
Fernando Saltiel
Differences in On-the-Job Learning across Firms
We present evidence consistent with large disparities across firms in the on-the-job learning their young employees experience, using administrative datasets from Brazil and Italy. We categorize ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
J24, J31
14471 Natalia Danzer
Mathias Huebener
Astrid Pape
C. Katharina Spieß
Nico A. Siegel
Gert G. Wagner
Cracking under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes toward Maternal Employment in Times of a Pandemic
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Cracking Under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment During COVID-19 in Germany' in: Feminist Economics, Feminist Economics, 2024, 30 (3), 217–254.)
J13, J16, J18, J22
14470 Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3) 2008, 592-598), which is ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (1), 218 - 223)
I21, I26, J31
14469 Matthias Giesecke
Philipp Jaeger
Pension Incentives and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Universal Old-Age Assistance in the UK
We study the labor supply implications of the Old-Age Pension Act (OPA) of 1908, which, for the first time, provided pensions to older people in the UK. Using recently released census data covering ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 203, 104516)
D61, H21, H55, J14, J22, J26
14466 Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur
Murat Güray Kirdar
Ismet Koc
The Making of a Lost Generation: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for ...
(published in: International Migration Review; 2024, 8 (3), 1075-1113)
J13, J15, J61, O15, O53
14465 Simon Jäger
Shakked Noy
Benjamin Schoefer
What Does Codetermination Do?
We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (4), 857-890.)
J08, K31, M1, M5
14464 Luke Haywood
Markus Janser
Nicolas Koch
The Welfare Costs of Job Loss and Decarbonization– Evidence from Germany's Coal Phase Out
Decarbonizing economies is an enormous task. Public debate often focuses on the job loss of workers in fossil industries. Why is job loss costly? Who is most affected? Can delaying transition reduce ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, 11 (3), 577–611)
J64, L16, Q54
14463 Xiuna Yang
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Terry Sicular
Inequality of Opportunity in Household Income, China 2002-2018
This study contributes to the literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in China by covering a longer and more recent span of time, employing better measures of given characteristics, and ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 69, 101684 )
D31, D63, J62
14461 Paul N. Thompson
Jason Ward
Only a Matter of Time? The Role of Time in School on Four-Day School Week Achievement Impacts
Previous evidence has shown disparate achievement impacts of the four-day school week across state contexts. This paper examines the impacts of the four-day school week on achievement and achievement ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 86, 102198)
I21
14459 Cindy Cunningham
Lucia Foster
Cheryl Grim
John C. Haltiwanger
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Jay Stewart
Zoltan Wolf
Dispersion in Dispersion: Measuring Establishment-Level Differences In Productivity
We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (4), 999-1032)
D24, E24, E32
14458 Alina Sorgner
Michael Wyrwich
Calling Baumol: What Telephones Can Tell Us about the Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent in the Face of Radical Institutional Changes
The aim of this paper is to test a key aspect of Baumol's theory that the allocation of entrepreneurial efforts toward its productive (e.g., start-up activity) or unproductive (e.g., rent-seeking) ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2022, 37(5), 106246)
L26, P20, P31
14457 Jonas Jessen
C. Katharina Spieß
Sevrin Waights
Katharina Wrohlich
Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic ...
(revised version published as 'The gender division of unpaid care work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany' in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23(4), 641-667)
D13, J16, J22
14456 Andrea Garnero
Claudio Lucifora
Turning a "Blind Eye"? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment
Turning a "blind eye" to non-compliance with minimum wage standards is sometimes presented as a pragmatic way to accommodate higher wages while not harming employment opportunities for workers ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 884-907)
J31, J52, J83
14455 Giovanni Russo
Gijs Van Houten
Complex Job Design and Layers of Hierarchy
The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An ...
(published in: Polachek, S.W., Tatsiramos, K., Russo, G. and van Houten, G. (eds.), Workplace Productivity and Management Practices (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 49), Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, 85-106. )
M51, L20, M50
14453 Daniela Del Boca
Noemi Oggero
Paola Profeta
Mariacristina Rossi
Did COVID-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families' lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 11 (1))
J13, J16, J21
14452 Manuela Angelucci
Carlos Chiapa
Silvia Prina
Irvin Rojas
Transitory Income Changes and Consumption Smoothing: Evidence from Mexico
We study how 3,534 beneficiaries of PROSPERA, Mexico's cash transfer program, smooth food consumption around the transfer payday, an anticipated and transitory income shock. We find that food ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105013)
D12, D91, E21, I12, I38
14451 Kai A. Konrad
Kjell Erik Lommerud
Effective Climate Policy Needs Non-combustion Uses for Hydrocarbons
A central issue that is discussed in climate policy is the fear of owners of stocks of fossil hydrocarbon deposits that high CO2 taxes and bans on the combustion use of hydrocarbons will turn their ...
(published in: Energy Policy, 2021, 157, 112446)
Q54, Q35
14449 Barry R. Chiswick
RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
Women at Work in the United States since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406)
N31, J16, J21, J82
14448 Luca Fumarco
Francesco Principe
More Goals, Fewer Babies? On National Teams' Performance and Birth Rates
Does national team performance boost birth rates? We compiled a unique dataset combining country-level monthly birth rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 208, 110086 )
I10, J10, J11, J13
14447 Christian Krekel
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Daisy Fancourt
Richard Layard
A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Despite a wealth of research on its correlates, relatively little is known about how to effectively raise wellbeing in local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 322-336)
C93, I12, I31
14446 Sabrina Di Addario
Patrick Kline
Raffaele Saggio
Mikkel Sølvsten
'It Ain't Where You're from, It's Where You're At': Hiring Origins, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages
We develop a theoretically grounded extension of the two-way fixed effects model of Abowd et al. (1999) that allows firms to differ both in the wages they offer new hires and the wages required to ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 340-374)
J3, J5
14442 Dan Anderberg
Noemi Mantovan
Robert M. Sauer
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning About the Match
We present a dynamic lifecycle model of women's choices with respect to partnership status, labour supply and fertility when they cannot directly observe whether a given male partner is of a violent ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (656), 2863 - 2898)
J12, J13
14441 Karina Doorley
Ivan Privalko
Helen Russell
Dora Tuda
The Gender Pay Gap in Ireland from Austerity through Recovery
This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to ...
(forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024)
J31, J71, D31
14439 Daniel Borbely
Jonathan Norris
Agnese Romiti
Peer Gender and Schooling: Evidence from Ethiopia
In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a unique survey of students across classrooms and schools and among those randomly ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (2), 207–249 )
I21, I29, J16, J24
14438 Louis Lippens
Stijn Baert
Eva Derous
Loss Aversion in Taste-Based Employee Discrimination: Evidence from a Choice Experiment
Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible to loss aversion. In line with empirical evidence from previous research, our ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 208, 110081)
J70, J24, J60, C92
14437 Oded Stark
An Optimal Split of School Classes
In many countries, schools have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by splitting up classes. While the purpose of dividing classes is clearly health-related, the process of doing so poses an ...
(published in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 69, 668-675)
D01, D02, D23, D61, D90, L22, M11, M52
14436 Jesper Bagger
Francois Fontaine
Manolis Galenianos
Ija Trapeznikova
Vacancies, Employment Outcomes and Firm Growth: Evidence from Denmark
We use comprehensive data from Denmark that combine online job advertisements with a matched employer-employee dataset and a firm-level dataset with information on revenues and value added to study ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 75, 102103)
J23, J63
14433 Chao Fang
Ernest Zhang
Junfu Zhang
Do Women Give Up Competing More Easily? Evidence from Speedcubers
We analyze a large sample of participants in mixed-gender Rubik's Cube competitions. Focusing on participants who barely made or missed the cut for the second round in a competition, we examine their ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109943.)
D91, J16, L83
14432 Nicola Gagliardi
Elena Grinza
François Rycx
Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? New Evidence on the Impact of Tenure on Productivity
In this paper, we explore the impact of workers' tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on private Belgian firms. We estimate a production function ...
(published as 'Workers' Tenure and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from Matched Employer-employee Data' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2023, 62 (1), 3-33)
D24, M59
14430 Lucía Echeverría
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Green Mobility and Well-Being
Recent years have witnessed efforts worldwide to promote green mobility, aimed at boosting sustainable economic growth. However, how green mobility relates to travelers' well-being remains an open ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2022, 195, 107368)
R4, J22
14429 Peng Nie
Qiaoge Li
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Energy Poverty and Subjective Well-Being in China: New Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adults aged 18 and over. In addition to ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2021, 103: 105548.)
I10, I12, R21
14427 Bhaskar Chakravorty
Wiji Arulampalam
Apurav Yash Bhatiya
Clement Imbert
Roland Rathelot
Can Information about Jobs Improve the Effectiveness of Vocational Training? Experimental Evidence from India
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the ...
(This version: April 2023)
J24, J61, M53
14426 Sebastian Fehrler
Moritz Janas
Delegation to a Group
We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off ...
(published in: Management Science, 2021, 67, 3714-3743)
C92, D23, D71
14425 Jonathan Portes
Immigration and the UK Economy after Brexit
I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (1), 82-96, )
E24, J24, J61, M53
14423 Tommaso Agasisti
Massimiliano Bratti
Veronica Minaya
When Need Meets Merit: The Effect of Increasing Merit Requirements in Need-Based Student Aid
Merit requirements in need-based student aid may exacerbate inequality in higher education but at the same time improve efficiency of aid expenditure by increasing on-time graduation, for instance. ...
(revised version published in: European Economics review, 2022, 146, 104164 )
I21, I22, I28
14422 Greg Howard
Russell Weinstein
Yuhao Yang
Do Universities Improve Local Economic Resilience?
We use a novel identification strategy to investigate whether regional universities make their local economies more resilient to adverse economic shocks. Our strategy is based on state governments ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (4), 1129–1145.)
R10, I23, J20
14421 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
The Creativity Premium
Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key ...
(published as 'The Creativity Premium: Exploring the Link between Childhood Creativity and Life Outcomes' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 495–526)
D91, J24
14419 David A. Jaeger
Jaime Arellano-Bover
Krzysztof Karbownik
Marta Martínez Matute
John M. Nunley
R. Alan Seals Jr.
Miguel Almunia
Mackenzie Alston
Sascha O. Becker
Pilar Beneito
René Böheim
José E. Boscá
Jessica H. Brown
Simon Chang
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Shooshan Danagoulian
Sandra Donnally
Marissa Eckrote-Nordland
Lídia Farré
Javier Ferri
Margherita Fort
Jane Cooley Fruewirth
Rebecca Gelding
Allen C. Goodman
Melanie Guldi
Simone Häckl
Janet Hankin
Scott A. Imberman
Joanna Lahey
Joan Llull
Hani Mansour
Isaac McFarlin
Jaakko Meriläinen
Tove Mortlund
Martin Nybom
Stephen D. O'Connell
Rupert Sausgruber
Amy Schwartz
Jan Stuhler
Petra Thiemann
Roel van Veldhuizen
Marianne H. Wanamaker
Maria Zhu
The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First Wave Results
University students have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We present results from the first wave of the Global COVID-19 Student Survey, which was administered at 28 universities ...
(published in: Covid Economics, 2021, 79, 152-217)
I23, I10, J1
14418 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
A Simple Nudge Increases Socioeconomic Diversity in Undergraduate Economics
We assess whether a light-touch intervention can increase socioeconomic and racial diversity in undergraduate Economics. We randomly assigned over 2,200 students a message with basic information ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (1), 287 - 307)
I21, I23
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