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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
17204 Yafei Si
Yuyi Yang
Xi Wang
Ruopeng An
Jiaqi Zu
Xi Chen
Xiaojing Fan
Sen Gong
Quality and Accountability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Healthcare in Low- And Middle-Income Countries (LMIC): A Simulated Patient Study Using ChatGPT
Using simulated patients to mimic nine established non-communicable and infectious diseases over 27 trials, we assess ChatGPT's effectiveness and reliability in diagnosing and treating common ...
(published as 'Quality and Accountability of ChatGPT in Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Simulated Patient Study' in: Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024, 26, e56121)
C0, I10, I11, C90
17202 Paolo Brunori
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Guido Neidhöfer
Inequality of Opportunity and Intergenerational Persistence in Latin America
How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2025, 4 (S1), i167–i199,)
D31, I39, J62, O15
17201 Facundo Alvaredo
Francois Bourguignon
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Nora Lustig
Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America
Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2025, 4 (S1), i9-i35.)
D31, D63, O54
17195 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Ethnic Identity and Anti-immigrant Sentiment: Evidence from Proposition 187
Political discourse has often stoked racial and ethnic divisions, raising the possibility that individuals' self-reported racial and ethnic identities may change in response to an increasingly ...
(forthcoming in: Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark Loewenstein (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, University of Chicago Press, 2026)
J15, D72, Z13
17191 Andy Chung
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Carl Singleton
Zhengxin Wang
Junsen Zhang
Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 240, 107340)
J22, L82, L86
17190 Marie C. Hull
Ji Yan
The Impact of Children's Access to Public Health Insurance on Their Cognitive Development and Behavior
While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102935)
H51, I13, I38, J13, J24
17188 Joan Costa-Font
Frank A. Cowell
Specific Egalitarianism? Inequality Aversion across Domains
An individual's inequality aversion (IA) is a central preference parameter that captures the welfare sacrifice from exposure to inequality. However, it is far from trivial how to best elicit IA ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 14 August 2025)
H1, I18
17183 Giacomo Damioli
Vincent Van Roy
Daniel Vertesy
Marco Vivarelli
Is Artificial Intelligence Generating a New Paradigm? Evidence from the Emerging Phase
Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative innovation with the potential to drive significant economic growth and productivity gains. This study examines whether AI is initiating a ...
(published as 'Is artificial intelligence leading to a new technological paradigm?', in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2025,72, 347-359)
O31, O33
17173 Chiara Binelli
Simona Lorena Comi
Elena Meschi
Laura Pagani
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: The Role of Study Time and Class Recordings on University Students' Performance during COVID-19
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects on the academic achievement of students in a large university located in a northern Italian region severely affected by the pandemic. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 225, 305-328)
I23, I24
17169 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Michael F. Lovenheim
The Long-Run Impacts of Banning Affirmative Action in US Higher Education
This paper estimates the long-run impacts of banning affirmative action on men and women from under-represented minority (URM) racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Using data from the US ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40 (3), 607–628)
J15, J18, I23
17166 Lindsey Lacey
Nirajana Mishra
Priya Mukherjee
Nikhilesh Prakash
Nishith Prakash
Diane Quinn
Shwetlena Sabarwal
Deepak Saraswat
Can Destigmatizing Mental Health Increase Willingness to Seek Help? Experimental Evidence from Nepal
We conducted a randomized control trial to study the impact of two information messages aimed at reducing the stigma associated with mental illness on the willingness to seek mental healthcare among ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2025, 44 (1), 97-124)
I12, I15
17164 Francisca M. Antman
James Flynn
When Beer Is Safer than Water: Beer Availability and Mortality from Waterborne Illnesses
We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103343)
N33, I15, Q25
17161 Melanie K. Jones
Ezgi Kaya
Jiarui Nan
Overeducation, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Graduates in China
Exploiting rich nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies this paper explores the relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2025, 93, 102448)
J24, J28, J31
17160 Hai-Anh H Dang
Minh N.N. Do
Cuong Viet Nguyen
The Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children's Education Outcomes: Evidence from Vietnam
Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes, particularly in a developing country setting. Analyzing a rich database consisting ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review; 2025, 106, 102656)
O12, I10, Q53, Q54
17159 Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
Biological Age and Predicting Future Health Care Utilisation
We explore the role of epigenetic biological age in predicting subsequent health care utilisation. We use longitudinal data from the UK Understanding Society panel, capitalizing on the availability ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2025, 99, 102956)
C5, C81, I10, I18
17155 Marcel Preuss
Germán Reyes
Jason Somerville
Joy Wu
Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution
Support for redistribution depends on whether inequality stems from differences in performance or luck, but different sources of luck may impact redistribution differentially. We elicit ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics)
C91, D63
17151 Benjamin Elsner
Manvi Jindal
Massimiliano Mascherini
Sanna Nivakoski
Gender Gaps in Time Use: Pan-European Evidence from School Closures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We study the impact of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on the time allocated to paid and unpaid work within households. We use panel data from 27 EU countries and isolate the impact of ...
(forthcoming in: Economic and Social Review)
D13, J13, J16, J22, J30
17150 Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh
Christophe Rault
Financial Inclusion and Threshold Effects in Carbon Emissions
While the financial inclusion would induce greater pollutant emissions through its impact of economic activity, the increased access to financial services may unleash investments in green ...
(revised version published in: Energy Policy, 2024, 192,114265)
C23, O16, O44, Q53, Q56
17148 Regina T. Riphahn
Irakli Sauer
Earnings Assimilation of Post-reunification East German Migrants in West Germany
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern ...
(published in: Labour, 2024, 38 (4), 475-510)
F15, J31, J61
17147 Zhuoer Lin
Xi Chen
Place of Birth and Cognitive Function among Older Americans: Findings from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol
Growing evidence suggests that place of birth (PoB) and related circumstances may have long- lasting and multiplicative contributions to various later-life outcomes. This study investigates the ...
(published in: Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2024, 79 (9), gbae126, )
I14, I10, J13, J14, H75
17146 James Flynn
Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?
This paper uses the implementation of a privately funded family planning program in Colorado to demonstrate that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 8 May 2024)
J13, I18, I12
17145 Kelsey J. O'Connor
Stefano Bartolini
Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students' life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (3), 749-774)
I21, I31, J24
17142 Orley Ashenfelter
Štepán Jurajda
The U.S. Low-Wage Structure: A McWage Comparison
Thanks to standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald's restaurants, the hourly wage of McDonald's Basic Crew enables wage comparisons under near-identical skill inputs and hedonic job ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 16 September 2024)
J31
17139 Marianna Kudlyak
Erin L. Wolcott
Pandemic Layoffs and the Role of Stay-at-Home Orders
We compile a novel high-frequency, detailed geographic dataset on mass layoffs from U.S. state labor departments. Using recent advances in difference-in-difference estimation with staggered ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111894)
E32, J63, J64
17135 Lei Xu
Massimiliano Tani
Yu Zhu
Can the Teaching Style Reduce Inequality in the Classroom? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
We investigate the effects of 'lecture-based' (LBT) – i.e. individual work and rote learning - versus 'discussion-based' (DBT) – i.e. participative and focused on student-centred learning - teaching ...
(published in: British Educational Research Journal, 2024, 50 (6), 2849 - 2874)
I21, I24
17132 John Forth
Carl Singleton
Alex Bryson
Van Phan
Felix Ritchie
Damian Whittard
The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility across Firms
In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 63 (4), 746-757)
J23, J38, J68, J88
17119 Marco Clemens
Jan Sauermann
Making the Right Call: The Heterogeneous Effects of Individual Performance Pay on Productivity
Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity. Although workers' skills may directly matter for the cost of effort to reach performance goals, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102694)
M52, J33, C23
17111 Pierre Cahuc
The Micro and Macro Economics of Short-Time Work
This article provides an overview of the economic literature on short-time work. It presents the main characteristics of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its ...
(published as 'Short-term work policies' in: C. Dustman, Lemieux, T. (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 5, Elsevier, 2024)
J23, J41, J63
17110 Paola Giuliano
Antonio Spilimbergo
Aggregate Shocks and the Formation of Preferences and Beliefs
A growing body of work has shown that aggregate shocks affect the formation of preferences and beliefs. This article reviews evidence from sociology, social psychology, and economics to assess the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 62 (2), 542–597)
E00, P00, Z1
17101 Stephen Hoskins
David W. Johnston
Johannes S. Kunz
Michael A. Shields
Kevin E. Staub
The Importance of Sampling Frequency for Estimates of Well-Being Dynamics
Using a high-frequency panel survey, we examine the sensitivity of estimated self-reported well-being (SWB) dynamics to using monthly, quarterly, and yearly data. This is an important issue if SWB is ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 111880)
I1, I3
17097 Maria Alejandra Cattaneo
Christian Gschwendt
Stefan C. Wolter
How Scary Is the Risk of Automation? Evidence from a Large Scale Survey Experiment
Advances in technology have always reshaped labor markets. Automating human labor has lead to job losses and creation but most of all, for an increasing demand for highly skilled workers. However, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 235, 107034)
J24, O33
17096 Catia Batista
David M Costa
Pedro Freitas
Gonçalo Lima
Ana B Reis
What Matters for the Decision to Study Abroad? A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Cape Verde
Study abroad migration is the fastest growing international migration flow. However, the college completion rates of students from low-income countries are often modest in OECD countries, raising the ...
(pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 173, 103401)
O15, F22, J61, C91
17094 Delphine Boutin
Laurene Petifour
Yvonne Allard
Souleymane Kontoubré
Valéry Ridde
Comprehensive Assessment of the Impact of Mandatory Community-Based Health Insurance in Burkina Faso
Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2025, 371, 117870)
I13, I15, O12, G21, O55
17082 Rafael Perez Ribas
Breno Sampaio
Giuseppe Trevisan
The Impact of Peer Performance and Relative Rank on Managerial Career Attainment: Evidence from College Students
The ranking system within academic environments may impact future professional trajectories. Examining the influence of class rank on college students' managerial attainment is crucial for ...
(pubished in: Management Science, 2025, 71 (5), 4510–4531)
D91, I23, J16, J24, M51
17079 Marco Fongoni
Daniel Schaefer
Carl Singleton
Why Wages Don't Fall in Jobs with Incomplete Contracts
We investigate how the incompleteness of an employment contract - discretionary and non-contractible effort - can affect an employer's decision about cutting nominal wages. Using matched ...
(published in: Management Science, 2025, 71(8), 6319-6339.)
E24, E70, J31, J41
17076 Joanna Clifton-Sprigg
Eleonora Fichera
Ezgi Kaya
Melanie K. Jones
Fathers Taking Leave: Evaluating the Impact of Shared Parental Leave in the UK
We study the effect of the introduction in 2015 of UK Shared Parental Leave policy on the up-take and the length of leave taken by fathers. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study and Regression ...
(forthcoming in: Fiscal Studies, 2025)
D13, J08, J13, J18
17075 Wim Naudé
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
This paper identifies conceptual, methodological, and empirical flaws in the first African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index (AEEI) that was launched in 2024. These flaws limit the usefulness of the ...
(published online in: Journal of Technology Transfer, 25 April 2025)
L26, L53, O55, O435
17074 Krishna Regmi
Minimum Wages and the Uptake of Supplemental Security Income
This study investigates whether the minimum wage affects the uptake of Supplemental Security Income (SSI). To disentangle the effect of the minimum wage from underlying macroeconomic conditions, I ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102592)
J08
17072 Pablo Celhay
Sebastian Gallegos
Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 23 (2025))
J62, N36, I24, I25, I28
17070 Laura Derksen
Jason Kerwin
Natalia Ordaz Reynoso
Olivier Sterck
Healthcare Appointments as Commitment Devices
We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 136 (665), 81–118)
D81, I15, O12
17068 Andrew E. Clark
Anthony Lepinteur
I Can't Forget about U: Lifetime Unemployment and Retirement Well-Being
It is well-known that unemployment leaves scars after re-employment, but does this scarring effect persist even after retirement? We analyse European data on retirees from the SHARE panel, and show ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1083-1100)
J21, J63, I31
17065 Bo Cowgill
Amanda Agan
Laura Katherine Gee
The Gender Disclosure Gap: Salary History Bans Unravel When Men Volunteer Their Income
This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their ...
(published in: Organization Science, 2024, 35 (5), 1571–1588)
D8, M51 J71
17063 Iga Magda
Jacek Bieliński
Marzena Feldy
Anna Knapińska
The Gender Pay Gap at the Early Stages of Academic Careers
The number of countries that have devoted time and attention to establishing gender equality regulations in academia is increasing. However, various studies indicate that women remain ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 27 January 2025)
J13, J16
17055 Frank M. Fossen
Trevor McLemore
Alina Sorgner
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship
This survey reviews emerging but fast-growing literature on impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on entrepreneurship, providing a resource for researchers in entrepreneurship and neighboring ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 2024, 20 (8), 781-904)
J24, L26, O30
17054 Andrés García-Echalar
Sebastián Poblete
Tomas Rau
Teacher Value-Added and the Test Score Gender Gap
This paper assesses the effect of teachers on the gender gap in student test scores. It combines different empirical strategies from the value-added and labor economics literature to estimate teacher ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102588)
I21, I24, J16
17049 Iris Klinker
Bas ter Weel
Wages and Employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition ...
(published in: De Economist, 2024, 172 (3), 233-256)
E24, E31, J21, J31
17048 Jonas Fluchtmann
Anita Marie Glenny
Nikolaj Harmon
Jonas Maibom
Unemployed Job Search across People and over Time: Evidence from Applied-for Jobs
Using data on applied-for jobs for the universe of Danish UI recipients, we examine variation in job search behavior both across individuals and over time during unemployment spells. We find large ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1175–1217)
J64
17047 Gustaf Bruze
Alexander Kjær Hilsløv
Jonas Maibom
The Long-Run Effects of Individual Debt Relief
Individuals with extensive debt may be granted debt relief in court. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the Danish debt relief program with data from court records linked to nationwide register ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 October 2024)
D14, D31, K35
17044 Oded Stark
Julia Wlodarczyk
Rank, Stress, and Risk: A Conjecture
A perception at the core of studies that consider the link between social rank and stress (typically measured by the so-called stress hormone cortisol) is that the link is direct. Examples of such ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 350, 116841)
D01, D31, D81, D87, D91, I12, I14
17042 Matthias Fahn
Takeshi Murooka
Informal Incentives and Labor Markets
This paper investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal, self-enforcing, agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and show ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (665), 144–179)
D21, D86, J21, J38, J61, J71
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