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14231 Hans R.A. Koster
Ceren Ozgen
Cities and Tasks
This paper explores the relationship between routine-biased technological change and agglomeration economies. Using administrative data from the Netherlands, we first show that in dense areas, jobs ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 103386)
R30, R33
14230 Sandip Datta
Geeta G. Kingdon
Class Size and Learning: Has India Spent Too Much on Reducing Class Size?
This paper examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India. It uses a credible identification strategy to address the endogeneity of ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2023, 37 (1), 24–48, )
I20, I21
14229 Nicolas Ajzenman
Tiago Cavalcanti
Daniel Da Mata
More than Words: Leaders' Speech and Risky Behavior During a Pandemic
This paper investigates if the anti-scientific rhetoric of modern populists can induce followers to engage in risky behavior. We gather electoral information, in-person card transactions, and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 351–371)
D1, D72, I12, I31
14228 Martin Kahanec
Lukáš Lafférs
Bernhard Schmidpeter
The Impact of Mass Antigen Testing for COVID-19 on the Prevalence of the Disease
More than 100 million people have been infected and 2.5 million people have died of COVID-19 globally as of February 2021. Mass antigen testing could help to mitigate the pandemic and allow the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 1105 - 1140)
D04, I18, J22
14227 N. Meltem Daysal
Todd E. Elder
Judith K. Hellerstein
Scott A. Imberman
Chiara Orsini
Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 10, 322–356)
I1, J1
14226 Christian Bredemeier
Jan Gravert
Falko Juessen
Accounting for Limited Commitment between Spouses When Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities
The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2023, 51, 547-578)
D13, D15, J12, J22, E21, E24
14224 Osea Giuntella
Lorenzo Rotunno
Luca Stella
Trade Shocks, Fertility, and Marital Behavior
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to trade on the fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in ...
(published in: Demography, 2022, 59 (6), 2135-2159)
F14, F16, J13
14223 Titan Alon
Sena Coskun
Matthias Doepke
David Koll
Michèle Tertilt
From Mancession to Shecession: Women's Employment in Regular and Pandemic Recessions
We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate ...
(published in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2022, 362022, 83–151)
D13, E32, J16, J20
14220 Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Rachel Knott
Benno Torgler
Resilience to Disaster: Evidence from Daily Wellbeing Data
As the severity and frequency of natural disasters become more pronounced with climate change and the increased habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. ...
(published in: Global Environmental Change, 2023, 79, 102639)
I31, I38
14219 Danilo Cavapozzi
Marco Francesconi
Cheti Nicoletti
The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 186, 113-134)
J12, J16, J22, J24, J31, Z13
14215 Fabio Mariani
Marion Mercier
Immigration and Crime: The Role of Self-Selection and Institutions
Contrary to popular perception, empirical evidence suggests that immigrants do not necessarily commit more crimes than natives, in spite of having lower legitimate earning opportunities. To make ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 538-564)
F22, K42, O17
14214 David W. Johnston
Rachel Knott
Silvia Mendolia
Peter Siminski
Upside-Down Down-Under: Cold Temperatures Reduce Learning in Australia
Understanding how variation in weather and climate conditions impact productivity, performance and learning is of crucial economic importance. Recently, studies have established that high ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 85, 102172)
I20, J24, J54
14213 Olivier Coibion
Dimitris Georgarakos
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Geoff Kenny
Michael Weber
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (3), 645–677)
E3, E4, E5
14212 Binh Thai Pham
Hector Sala
Cross-Country Connectedness in Inflation and Unemployment: Measurement and Macroeconomic Consequences
We bring the notion of connectedness (Diebold and Yilmaz, 2012) to a set of two critical macroeconomic variables as inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, 1123 - 1146)
C32, C50, E24, F41, F42
14210 Hector Sala
Pedro Trivín
Reported MPC in the Presence of Debt
We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the self-reported Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC). The MPC is 43 per cent on ...
(piblished in: Economics Letters, 2021, 205, 109929 )
D12, D14, E21
14209 Marco Caliendo
Stefan Tübbicke
Design and Effectiveness of Start-up Subsidies: Evidence from a Policy Reform in Germany
While a growing body of literature finds positive impacts of Start-Up Subsidies (SUS) on labor market outcomes of participants, little is known about how the design of these programs shapes their ...
(published in: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2021, 70, 333 - 340)
J68, H43, L26
14207 Issam Abdo Ahmad
Ali Fakih
Does the Legal Form Matter for Firm Performance in the MENA Region?
This paper attempts to study the relationship between firm legal form and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) using the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) database. ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2022, 93 (2), 342-358)
C10, G30, L25
14205 Mehrzad B. Baktash
John S. Heywood
Uwe Jirjahn
Performance Pay and Alcohol Use in Germany
We study the link between performance pay and alcohol use in Germany, a country with mandated health insurance. Previous research from the US argues that alcohol use as a form of "self-medication" ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61, 353-383)
I12, J33
14204 Philip Jung
Philipp Korfmann
Edgar Preugschat
Optimal Regional Labor Market Policies
We document large and persistent spatial dispersion in unemployment rates, vacancies, labor market tightness, labor market flows, and wages for Germany on a granular regional level. We show that in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 152, 104318)
J50
14203 Daniel Araújo
Bladimir Carrillo
Breno Sampaio
The Long-Run Economic Consequences of Iodine Supplementation
We present evidence on the impacts of a large-scale iodine supplementation program in Tanzania on individuals' long-term economic outcomes. Exploiting the timing and location of the intervention, we ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 79, 1-18 )
I15, I18, J24, N35
14201 Giuliano Masiero
Fabrizio Mazzonna
Michael Santarossa
The Effect of Absolute versus Relative Temperature on Health and the Role of Social Care
We investigate the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality and emergency hospital admissions, and whether local social care allows to mitigate their adverse effects. We merge monthly ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (6), 1228-1248)
I18, Q51, Q54
14200 Anne Toft Hansen
Ulrik Hvidman
Hans Henrik Sievertsen
Grades and Employer Learning
This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 659–682)
I20, J20, I26
14198 Sebastian Jungkunz
Paul Marx
Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six ...
(published as 'Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries' in: European Journal of Political Research, 2022, 61 (3), 829-841)
C23, D31, D72, D91, P16, Z13
14197 Marion Krämer
Santosh Kumar Gautam
Sebastian Vollmer
Anemia, Diet, and Cognitive Development: Impact of Health Information on Diet Quality and Child Nutrition in Rural India
Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021,190 (C), 495-523)
I12, I15, I18, O12
14196 David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Riccardo Marchingiglio
Umut Ozek
Paola Sapienza
Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (2), 972–1006, )
I21, I24, J15
14194 Tomi Kyyrä
The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits
Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2023, 30, 1457–1480)
J64, J68
14193 Philip Du Caju
Guillaume Périlleux
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
A Bigger House at the Cost of an Empty Fridge? The Effect of Households' Indebtedness on Their Consumption: Micro-Evidence Using Belgian HFCS Data
This paper investigates the potentially non-linear relation between households' indebtedness and their consumption between 2010 and 2014 in Belgium, using panel data from the two waves of the ...
(published as 'A Bigger House at the Cost of an Empty Stomach? The Effect of Households' Indebtedness on Their Consumption: Micro-Evidence Using Belgian HFCS Data' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 291 - 333)
D12, D14, E21
14192 Francesco Agostinelli
Ciro Avitabile
Matteo Bobba
Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
This paper provides new insights on the science of scaling. We study an educational mentoring program with a home visit component implemented at scale in Mexico, under different modalities (original ...
(this version: September 2022.)
C90, C93, D02, I3, J1
14191 Jakub Grossmann
Štepán Jurajda
Felix Roesel
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2024, 68 (2), 751-766)
J15, F22, D72, D74, N34
14190 Terhi Maczulskij
Occupational Mobility of Routine Workers
This paper analyzes whether occupational polarization takes place within workers or due to changes in the composition of workers by using comprehensive panel data from Finland. The decomposition ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86,(5), 1198 - 1229)
J23, J62
14189 Helène Benghalem
Pierre Cahuc
Pierre Villedieu
The Lock-in Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits
We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took ...
(published online as 'The Lock-in Effects of Information on Part-time Unemployment Benefits' in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 October 2023)
H5, J64, J65
14187 Yanyan Liu
Shuang Ma
Ren Mu
Uneven Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Post-lockdown Human Mobility Across Chinese Cities
How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 84, Article 102125)
L60, H12, I18
14186 Mauricio Tejada
Claudia Piras
Luca Flabbi
Monserrat Bustelo
Gender Gaps in Latin American Labor Markets: Implications from an Estimated Search Model
We develop and estimate a search model that captures the specific characteristics of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) labor markets and the crucial differences between men and women. Labor force ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 142, 2021, 111-178)
J24, J3, J64, O17
14184 Wei Huang
Teng Li
Yinghao Pan
Jinyang Ren
Teacher Characteristics and Student Performance: Evidence from Random Teacher-Student Assignments in China
This paper investigates the impacts of teacher characteristics on student performance using a nationally representative and randomly assigned teacher-student sample in China. We find that having a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 747-781)
I21, J24
14183 Xiang Ao
Xuan Chen
Zhong Zhao
Is Care by Grandparents or Parents Better for Children's Non-cognitive Skills? Evidence on Locus of Control from China
This study investigates the effect of grandparental care on children's locus of control (LOC), which is an important non-cognitive skill that affects children's future development. We use data from ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2022, 61, 101734 )
J13
14180 Maria Balgova
Simon Trenkle
Christian Zimpelmann
Nico Pestel
Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102142)
J21, J64, J68
14178 Diana Alessandrini
Joniada Milla
Minimum Wage Effects on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Canadian Data
This paper investigates the impact of the minimum wage on individuals' schooling decisions and the type of human capital acquired by students. Using Canadian longitudinal data, we explore 136 minimum ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18 (2), 346 - 376)
J31, J38, J24, I23
14177 Melanie K. Jones
Ezgi Kaya
The Gender Pay Gap in UK Medicine
In this study we quantify the size and drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in the UK public sector. In using nationally representative data from the Annual ...
(published as 'The gender pay gap in medicine: evidence from Britain' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (4), 1033 - 1051)
J24, J31, J45, J71
14174 Alison L. Booth
Patrick J. Nolen
Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments
Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it has been suggested that these may arise because men and women respond differently ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (S1), S71-S85)
C91, C92, J16, J33, M52
14172 Stephen P. Jenkins
Fernando Rios-Avila
Measurement Error in Earnings Data: Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data
Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (4), 474 - 483 )
C81, C83, D31
14171 Thomas Gries
Wim Naudé
Modelling Artificial Intelligence in Economics
Economists' two main theoretical approaches to understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts have been the task-approach to labor markets and endogenous growth theory. Therefore, the recent ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2022, 56, 12 (2022))
O47, O33, J24, E21, E25
14169 Loukas Balafoutas
Mongoljin Batsaikhan
Matthias Sutter
Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs and Salaried Workers
We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2024, 70 (5), 2900 - 2911)
C91, C93, D01, L26
14168 Tony Beatton
Michael Kidd
Anthony Niu
Francis Vella
Age of Starting School, Academic Performance, and the Impact of Non-Compliance: An Experiment within an Experiment, Evidence from Australia
This paper estimates the difference in academic performance of the oldest and youngest students in a given grade. We employ Queensland Department of Education school administration panel data for the ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2023, 99 (325), 175 - 206)
I29
14166 Richard V. Burkhauser
Kevin Corinth
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons from the Great Recession
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 695 (1), 314 - 330)
D31, E24, E3, E6, I3, J21, J31
14165 Leila Bengali
Mary C. Daly
Olivia Lofton
Robert G. Valletta
The Economic Status of People with Disabilities and Their Families since the Great Recession
People with disabilities face substantial barriers to sustained employment and stable, adequate income. We assess how they and their families fared during the long economic expansion that followed ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 695 (1), 123 - 142)
J14, J11, J18
14164 Ethan Grumstrup
Todd A. Sorensen
Jan Misiuna
Marta Pachocka
Immigration and Voting Patterns in the European Union: Evidence from Five Case Studies and Cross-Country Analysis
Tempers flared in Europe in response to the 2015 European Refugee Crisis prompting some countries to totally close their borders to asylum seekers. This was seen to have fueled anti-immigrant ...
(published in: Migration Letters, 2021, 18 (5), 573–589. )
J15, F22, D27
14163 Jarkko Harju
Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer
Voice at Work
We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast ...
(revise and resubmit: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)
J0, J53, J54
14161 Zhuoer Lin
Xi Chen
Adverse Childhood Circumstances and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults: Lower Level or Faster Decline?
We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying ...
(published in: SSM - Population Health, 2021, 14, 100767)
I14, I24, J13, J14
14159 Severin Zimmermann
Alois Stutzer
The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102130 )
F22, H53, I38, J15, Z13
14158 Mette Foged
Linea Hasager
Vasil Yasenov
The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (1), 164-213)
D02, J08, J15, J31, J61
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