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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
14391 Joshua D. Merfeld
Sectoral Wage Gaps and Gender in Rural India
Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (2), 434-452)
J31, J43,O13,O15, Q12
14390 Francesco Amodio
Nicolás de Roux
Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants
How much can employers in low and middle-income countries suppress wages below marginal productivity? Using plant and customs data from Colombia, we exploit pre- determined variation across plants in ...
(published as 'Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 949–977)
J42, L10, O14, O54
14388 Eugenio Proto
Anwen Zhang
COVID-19 and Mental Health of Individuals with Different Personalities
Several studies have been devoted to establishing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health across gender, age and ethnicity. However, much less attention has been paid to the ...
(revised version published in: PNAS (Proceeding of the National Academy of Science), 2021, 118 (37), e2109282118)
I3
14386 Philipp Lergetporer
Ludger Woessmann
Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition: Evidence from Representative Experiments
Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 226, 104968)
H52, I22, D72, D83
14385 Petri Böckerman
Mika Haapanen
Christopher Jepsen
Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death
This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986, we use an event ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9 (4), 584-604)
I10, I12, J12, J13
14384 Christina Felfe
Martin G. Kocher
Helmut Rainer
Judith Saurer
Thomas Siedler
More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth
Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with socioeconomic, ethnic, or cultural differences, may limit the scope of cooperation between individuals. A central question, then, is how to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104448)
C93, D90, J15, K37
14383 Jeffrey A. Flory
Andreas Leibbrandt
Christina Rott
Olga B. Stoddard
Signals from On High and the Power of Growth Mindset: A Natural Field Experiment in Attracting Minorities to High-Profile Positions
We conduct a large-scale natural field experiment with a Fortune 500 company to test several approaches to attract minorities to high-profile positions. 5,000 prospective applicants were randomized ...
(published as 'Leader Signals and 'Growth Mindset': A Natural Field Experiment in Attracting Minorities' to High-Profile Position' in: Management Science, 2024, 70 (8), 4953 - 4973)
J15, J16, C93, D22
14382 Christian Zimpelmann
Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Radost Holler
Lena Janys
Bettina M. Siflinger
Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands
Using customized panel data spanning the entire year of 2020, we analyze the dynamics of working hours and household income across different stages of the CoVid-19 pandemic. Similar to many other ...
(published as 'Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 73, 102055)
D31 J21, J22, J24, J33
14380 Ann P. Bartel
Soohyun Kim
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
California's Paid Family Leave Law and the Employment of 45-64 Year Old Adults
Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from work to care for a family member with a serious health condition, with reduced financial risk and increased job continuity. In 2004, California ...
(published in: Work, Aging and Retirement, 2023, 9 (2), 169–178)
J01, J20, J22
14379 Giorgio Brunello
Eiji Yamamura
With a Little Help from My Mother. The Matrilineal Advantage in European Grand Parenting.
This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent – grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 European countries and Israel from the Survey of Health, Ageing and ...
(published as 'Reciprocity and the matrilineal advantage in European grand-parenting' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 397 - 433)
J12, J13
14378 Bernardo Candia
Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
The Inflation Expectations of U.S. Firms: Evidence from a New Survey
Introducing a new survey of U.S. firms' inflation expectations, we document key stylized facts involving what U.S. firms know and expect about inflation and monetary policy. The resulting time series ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2024, 145 (S), 103569)
E3, E4, E5
14376 Hannah Klauber
Felix Holub
Nicolas Koch
Nico Pestel
Nolan Ritter
Alexander Rohlf
Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School
We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 220-248)
I18, Q51, Q53, Q58
14375 Christina Boll
Dana Müller
Simone Schüller
Neither Backlash nor Convergence: Dynamics of Intracouple Childcare Division after the First COVID-19 Lockdown and Subsequent Reopening in Germany
Using unique monthly panel data from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of ...
(revised version published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2023, 57, 27)
D13, J13, J16
14373 Patricia Cortes
Jessica Pan
Laura Pilossoph
Basit Zafar
Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors
To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on job offers and acceptances from past and current undergraduates of Boston University's Questrom School of ...
(published as 'Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2023, 138 (4), 2069–2126)
D83, D91, J64
14371 Vasiliki Fouka
Soumyajit Mazumder
Marco Tabellini
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration
How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and ...
(Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 811–842)
J11, J15, N32
14370 Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Olivier Sterck
Daniel Gerszon Mahler
Benoit Decerf
Death and Destitution: The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and ...
(published in: LSE Public Policy Review, 2021, 4 (2), 1- 11 )
D60, I15, I31, I32
14369 Ines Helm
Jan Stuhler
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 2024, 16 (4), 484–527)
H71, H72, H77, E62
14367 Mattia Filomena
Matteo Picchio
Are Temporary Jobs Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? A Meta-Analytical Review of the Literature
We present a meta-analysis on the debate about the "stepping stone vs. dead end" hypothesis related to the causal effect of temporary jobs on future labour market performances. We select academic ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (9), 60 - 74. )
J08, J41, J42, J81
14366 Haizheng Li
Qinyi Liu
Mingyu Ma
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Job Stress of Rural Teachers
This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods ...
(published as 'How the COVID-19 pandemic affects job sentiments of rural teachers' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 72, 101759)
I18, J24, J28
14364 Wiji Arulampalam
Valentina Corradi
Daniel Gutknecht
Intercept Estimation in Nonlinear Selection Models
We propose various semiparametric estimators for nonlinear selection models, where slope and intercept can be separately identifed. When the selection equation satisfies a monotonic index ...
(published online in: Econometric Theory, 24 April 2023)
C14, C21, C24
14363 Wiji Arulampalam
Andrea Papini
Tax Progressivity and Self-Employment Dynamics
Analysis of the relationship between taxes and self-employment should account for the interplay between responses in self-employment and wage employment. To this end, we estimate a two-state ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 377 - 391)
H24, H25, J24, C41
14361 René Böheim
Michael Christl
Mismatch Unemployment in Austria: The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills
During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region ...
(published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2022, 9 (1), 208–222)
J21, J64
14360 Karina Doorley
Cathal O'Donoghue
Denisa M. Sologon
The Gender Gap in Income and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The gender income gap is large and well documented for many countries. Recent research shows that it is mainly driven by differences in working patterns between men and women, but also by wage ...
(published in: Social Sciences, 2022, 11 (7), 311 )
D31, H23, J16, J31
14359 Simone Schüller
Hannah S. Steinberg
Parents under Stress: Evaluating Emergency Childcare Policies during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Germany
What are the effects of school and daycare facility closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on parental well-being and parenting behavior? Can emergency childcare policies during a pandemic mitigate ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102217 )
D04, D13, I18, I31, J13
14357 Martin Biewen
Miriam Sturm
Why a Labour Market Boom Does Not Necessarily Bring Down Inequality: Putting Together Germany's Inequality Puzzle
After an economically tough start into the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005 only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (2), 121-149)
C14, D31, I30
14356 Michael S. Kofoed
Lucas Gebhart
Dallas Gilmore
Ryan Moschitto
Zooming to Class?: Experimental Evidence on College Students' Online Learning during COVID-19
COVID-19 shifted schools and colleges to online instruction with little causal evidence of outcomes. In the fall of 2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2024, 6 (3), 324-340)
I21, I23, H75
14354 Alberto Alesina
Marco Tabellini
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (1), 5–46)
D72, J11, J15, J61, Z1
14352 Patrick A. Puhani
Margret K. Sterrenberg
Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be ...
(revised version published as 'Effects of Mandatory Military and Alternative Community Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic outcomes' in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (3), 488 - 507)
J12, J24, J47
14351 Ghazala Azmat
Katja Maria Kaufmann
Formation of College Plans: Expected Returns, Preferences and Adjustment Process
We exploit a large exogenous shock to study the determinants of college attendance and the role played by one's environment. We analyze whether, and how quickly, adolescents' college plans are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (2), 669–711)
I21, D72, D91
14350 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Susumu Imai
Thierry Kangoye
Nadege Desiree Yameogo
Assessing Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings in Africa: The Case of Eswatini
Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first ...
(published in: Development Southern Africa, 2021, 38 (4), 643–663)
J16, J21, L26, O12
14347 Lina Diaz
Daniel Houser
John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
Estimating Social Preferences Using Stated Satisfaction: Novel Support for Inequity Aversion
In this paper, we use stated satisfaction to estimate social preferences: subjects report their satisfaction with payment-profiles that hold their own payment constant while varying another subject's ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 155, 104436)
C91, D31, D63, I31
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