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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
14417 Tomas Kennedy
Peter Siminski
Are We Richer Than Our Parents Were? Absolute Income Mobility in Australia
We conduct the first dedicated study of absolute income mobility in Australia, for 1950-2019. About two-thirds of 30-34 year-olds have higher real incomes than their parents did at the same age, and ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (320), 22-41)
D31, H00, J62
14416 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Parental Disability and Teenagers' Time Allocation
Using the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (4), 1379-1407)
I14, I24, J13, J14, J22
14415 Jun Han
Zhong Zhao
One-Child Policy and Marriage Market in China
This study analyzes the effect of one-child policy on marriage market in China, and focuses on leftover situation, marriage age, and the age differential between husband and wife. Taking age of 30 as ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (1), 57-84)
J12, J13
14414 Minhee Chae
Timothy J. Hatton
Xin Meng
Explaining Trends in Adult Height in China: 1950 to 1990
This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the household structure and local economic conditions during the individual's ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 161, 106075)
I15, I18, J13, O1
14411 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Antonio Cabrales
Mathias Dolls
Ruben Durante
Lisa Windsteiger
Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?
We conduct a large-scale survey experiment in nine European countries to study how priming a major crisis (COVID-19), common economic interests, and a shared identity influences altruism, reciprocity ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Comparative Economics)
D72, H51, H53, H55, O52, P52
14410 Abel Brodeur
Lamis Kattan
World War II, the Baby Boom and Employment: County Level Evidence
This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United States. We rely on the number of casualties at the county-level and use a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 437-471)
J11, J13, J24, N3, N4
14406 Olivier B. Bargain
Guy Lacroix
Luca Tiberti
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions against Direct Evidence on Sharing
Welfare analyses conducted by policy practitioners around the world usually rely on equivalized or per-capita expenditures and ignore the extent of within-household inequality. Recent advances in the ...
(published as 'Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 865 - 905)
D11, D12, D36, I31, J12
14405 Stephen P. Jenkins
Fernando Rios-Avila
Reconciling Reports: Modelling Employment Earnings and Measurement Errors Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
We contribute new UK evidence about measurement errors and employment earnings to a field dominated by findings about the USA. We develop and apply new econometric models for linked survey and ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2023, 186 (1), 110 - 136)
C81, C83, D31
14404 Stephen P. Jenkins
Fernando Rios-Avila
Finite Mixture Models for Linked Survey and Administrative Data: Estimation and Post-estimation
Researchers use finite mixture models to analyze linked survey and administrative data on labour earnings (or similar variables), taking account of various types of measurement error in each data ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2023, 23 (1), 53 - 85)
C81, C83, D31
14402 Piera Bello
Lorenzo Rocco
Education, Information, and COVID-19 Excess Mortality
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between municipalities with different shares of educated residents between 2012 and ...
(published as 'Education and COVID-19 excess mortality' in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 47, 101194)
I14, I18, I26, R00
14401 Silvia Angerer
Jana Bolvashenkova
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
Matthias Sutter
Children's Patience and School-Track Choices Several Years Later: Linking Experimental and Field Data
We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104837)
C91, D90, I21, J2
14400 Tanika Chakraborty
Anirban Mukherjee
Economic Geography of Contagion: A Study on COVID-19 Outbreak in India
We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that a core-periphery economic structure is likely ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 779–811.)
I15, I18, R1
14399 Joshua Graff Zivin
Matthew Neidell
Nicholas Sanders
Gregor Singer
When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution
Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (2), 320–351)
Q53, I12, I11
14398 David A. Macpherson
Barry Hirsch
Five Decades of Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps at Unionstats.com
Union, nonunion, and overall wages, plus regression-based union wage gap estimates, are provided annually, beginning in 1973 using the Current Population Surveys (CPS). The estimates are presented ...
(published as 'Five decades of CPS wages, methods, and union-nonunion wage gaps at Unionstats.com' in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 439-452)
J31, J51, C81
14397 Guillaume Carlier
Arnaud Dupuy
Alfred Galichon
Yifei Sun
SISTA: Learning Optimal Transport Costs under Sparsity Constraints
In this paper, we describe a novel iterative procedure called SISTA to learn the underlying cost in optimal transport problems. SISTA is a hybrid between two classical methods, coordinate descent ...
(published in: Communication on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2023, 76 (9), 1659-1677)
C2,C6
14395 Davey Poulissen
Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Annemarie Künn-Nelen
Employers' Willingness to Invest in the Training of Temporary Workers: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Various studies have shown that temporary workers participate less in training than those on permanent contracts. Human resources practices are considered to be an important explanation for this ...
(revised version published as 'Employers’ willingness to invest in the training of temporary versus permanent workers: A discrete choice experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102430)
J24, J41, J62
14394 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
Gender Wage and Longevity Gaps and the Design of Retirement Systems
We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 209, 2023, 263-287.)
H55, H31, H21
14393 Manuela Angelucci
Daniel M Bennett
The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India
This study evaluates the impact of depression treatment on economic behavior in Karnataka, India. We cross-randomized pharmacotherapy and livelihoods assistance among 1000 depressed adults and ...
(published as 'The Economic Impact of Depression Treatment in India: Evidence from Community-Based Provision of Pharmacotherapy' in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (1), 169–198)
I15, I18
14392 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Laurent Gobillon
Yanos Zylberberg
Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning
A recent literature has used a historical perspective to better understand fundamental questions of urban economics. However, a wide range of historical documents of exceptional quality remain ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, 103711)
R11, R12, R14, N90, C45, C81
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