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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
14156 Richard McManus
Karen A. Mumford
Cristina Sechel
Measuring Research Excellence Amongst Economics Lecturers in the UK
Using a rich new data source, we explore the selection of economics Lecturers into the last UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Only some one-in-two (54%) of these Lecturers were ...
(pubished in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022, 74 (2), 386 - 404)
J00, J44, J71
14155 Marc Kaufmann
Joël Machado
Bertrand Verheyden
Why Do Migrants Stay Unexpectedly? Misperceptions and Implications for Integration
Empirical evidence suggests that a large proportion of immigrants who initially intended to stay temporarily in the destination country end up staying permanently, which may lead to suboptimal ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2025, 117, 103099.)
F22, D91, J61
14153 Pedro S. Martins
Employee Training and Firm Performance: Evidence from ESF Grant Applications
As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102056)
J24, H43, M53
14152 Delia Furtado
Haiyang Kong
How Do Low-Skilled Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence Using English Language Proficiency
This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104681)
J15, J61, J24, F16
14151 Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa
Samantha Lach
Takaaki Masaki
Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa
Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in ...
(published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 68, 101845)
C25, C52, D12, L86, O55
14150 Tilbe Atav
Egbert L. W. Jongen
Simon Rabat
Increasing the Effective Retirement Age: Key Factors and Interaction Effects
We study the effects of the recent increase in the statutory retirement age (SRA) in the Netherlands, using RDD and rich administrative data on the universe of the Dutch population. We find large ...
(published as 'Increasing the Retirement Age: Policy Effects and Underlying Mechanisms' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (1), 259-291.)
J14, J26
14149 Julian Emmler
Bernd Fitzenberger
Temporary Overpessimism: Job Loss Expectations Following a Large Negative Employment Shock
Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany after reunification with West Germany. Though experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (3), 621 - 661)
D84, J64, J63, P20
14148 Dominique Meurs
Patrick A. Puhani
Culture as a Hiring Criterion: Systemic Discrimination in a Procedurally Fair Hiring Process
Criteria used in hiring workers often do not reflect the skills required on the job. By comparing trainee performance for newly hired workers conditional on competitive civil service examination ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102482)
H83, J45, J71, M51
14146 Daniela Scur
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen
Renata Lemos
Nicholas Bloom
World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward
Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 37 (2),231 - 258)
L2, M2, O14, O32, O33
14145 Jacob Nielsen Arendt
Iben Bolvig
Mette Foged
Linea Hasager
Giovanni Peri
Language Training and Refugees' Integration
We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 23 June 2023 (adults) and as 'Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104840 (children / intergenerational effects))
J60, J24, E64, I30
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