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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
14144 Francisca M. Antman
Priti Kalsi
Soohyung Lee
Gender Norm Conflict and Marital Outcomes
We investigate the impact of male-female conflict over gender norms on marital outcomes. As marriage requires mutual agreement regarding the role of husband and wife, we hypothesize that a person who ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (4), 537 - 560)
J12, J16, J24
14143 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Wage Determination in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Works Councilors in Germany
The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2024, 45 (1), 38 - 115)
J30, J51, J53, J83, K31
14142 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Motivational Goal Bracketing with Non-rational Goals
We provide a tractable model of motivational goal bracketing by a present-biased individual, extending previous work to show that the main insights from models with rational goals carry over to a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740)
A12, C70, D91
14141 Peng Ge
Wenkai Sun
Zhong Zhao
Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change
Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs ...
(slightly revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 185, 168 - 190 )
J21
14140 Maria Polipciuc
Frank Cörvers
Raymond Montizaan
Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102486)
D72, I24, J15
14137 Eric Bonsang
Eve Caroli
Cognitive Load and Occupational Injuries
We investigate the relationship between cognitive load and occupational injuries. Cognitive load is defined in the literature as a tax on bandwidth which reduces cognitive resources. We proxy ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2021, 60(2), 219-242.)
J28, J81, D91
14136 Maria Knoth Humlum
Mette Thorsager
The Importance of Peer Quality for Completion of Higher Education
Using detailed Danish administrative data covering the entire population of students entering higher education in the period 1985 to 2010, we investigate the importance of a student's peers in higher ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 83, 102120)
I21, I24
14135 Kristian B. Karlson
Rasmus Landersø
The Making and Unmaking of Opportunity: Educational Mobility in 20th Century-Denmark
We study intergenerational educational mobility in Denmark over the 20th century during which the comprehensive Danish welfare state was rolled out. While mobility initially was low, schooling ...
(published online in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 17 May 2024)
H0, I0, J0
14134 Krzysztof Karbownik
Umut Özek
Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using a Regression Discontinuity Design
Using a regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from an anonymous district in Florida, we identify externalities in human capital production function ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (5), 1567-1607)
D13, I20, J13
14133 Reza Arabsheibani
Alma Kudebayeva
Altay Mussurov
Bride Kidnapping and Labour Supply Behaviour of Married Kyrgyz Women
Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for ...
(published as 'A note on bride kidnapping and labour supply behaviour of Kyrgyz women' in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (4), 00885)
J01, J16, J22
14132 Justine Hervé
Subha Mani
Jere R. Behrman
Arindam Nandi
Anjana Sankhil Lamkang
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural ...
(published as 'Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills among adolescents in India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 193, 66 - 97)
I21, I25, J13, J16, J24
14131 Jonas Maibom
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Passthrough of Firm Performance to Income and Employment Stability
To what extent do firms pass through idiosyncratic shocks to their workers? In this paper, we investigate this question focusing on passthrough to income for workers that stay in the firm and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 30 - 43)
C33, D22, J31, J33
14130 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Fatos Radoniqi
Republic of Beliefs: An Experimental Investigation
The success of a country's anti-corruption policies can crucially depend on the citizens' beliefs about the existing legal environment. We test this key idea of Basu (2020) using a novel design which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 214, 30 - 43)
C91, K42
14127 Krzysztof Karbownik
Anthony Wray
Educational, Labor-Market and Intergenerational Consequences of Poor Childhood Health
Does childhood health capital affect long-run labor market success? We address this question using inpatient hospital admission records linked to population census records. Sibling fixed effects ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources )
I14, J62, N33
14126 Panka Bencsik
Timothy J. Halliday
Bhashkar Mazumder
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental and Physical Health in the United Kingdom
We estimate intergenerational health persistence in the United Kingdom using Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY), a broad measure of health derived from the SF-12 Survey. We estimate that both the ...
(published in:Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 92,102805)
J62, I14
14124 Orley Ashenfelter
Štepán Jurajda
Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants
We use price and wage data from McDonald's restaurants to provide evidence on wage increases, labor-saving technology introduction, and price pass-through by a large low-wage employer facing a flurry ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics (special issue in honor of Alan Krueger), 2022, 40 (S1), S179 - S201)
J30, J23
14123 Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Zhiming Cheng
Ben Zhe Wang
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, ...
(revised version published as 'Social Assimilation and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 37 - 67)
F22, J15, J16, J21, Z13
14122 Yen-Chien Chen
Elliott Fan
Jin-Tan Liu
Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child's Higher Education
We combine multiple administrative datasets from Taiwan to evaluate the degree to which the adverse divorce effect on the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. ...
(forthcoming in: Demography 2025, 62 (4))
I20, J12, J64
14120 Sascha O. Becker
Volker Lindenthal
Sharun Mukand
Fabian Waldinger
Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–43)
I20, I23, I28, J15, J24, N34, N44
14119 Ashley Burdett
Apostolos Davillas
Ben Etheridge
Weather, Psychological Wellbeing and Mobility during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
To reduce infection rates during the first UK wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, a first lockdown was announced on March 23, 2020, with a final easing of the restrictions on July 4, 2020. Among the most ...
(revised version published as 'Weather, mental health, and mobility during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (9), 2296-2306 )
I10, I12, C23
14118 Terhi Maczulskij
Jutta Viinikainen
Personality and Public Sector Employment
Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment ...
(published as 'Personality and public sector employment in Finland' in: Labor, 2024, 38 (1), 122-149)
J23, J45
14117 Alpaslan Akay
Gökhan Karabulut
Levent Yilmaz
Life Satisfaction, Pro-Activity, and Employment
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the ...
(published online in: Singapore Economic Review, 2021)
I31, J64, J69
14116 Daniel L. Millimet
Christopher F. Parmeter
COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Accurate counts of cases and deaths are critical for devising an optimal pandemic response. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, so too has the recognition that cases and deaths have been ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2022, 185, 1178-1215)
C18, H12, I18
14113 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
COVID-19 and College Academic Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis
Using an unbalanced panel of close to 12,000 academic records, and difference-in-differences models and event study analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 ...
(substantially revised version published as 'COVID-19, College Academic Performance, and the Flexible Grading Policy: A Longitudinal Analysis' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 207, 104606)
I24, I23, I22
14111 Nicolas Ajzenman
Eleonora Bertoni
Gregory Elacqua
Luana Marotta
Carolina Méndez Vargas
Altruism or Money? Reducing Teacher Sorting Using Behavioral Strategies in Peru
Inequality in access to high-quality teachers is an important driver of student socioeconomic achievement gaps. We experimentally evaluate a novel nation-wide low-cost government program aimed at ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 1049–1091)
I24, D91, I25
14110 Ray Bachan
Alex Bryson
The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK
The gender wage gap has closed gradually in the United Kingdom, as in other countries, but convergence is slower among top earners. Using linked employer-employee data over two decades we examine the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102230)
J16, J31, J44
14107 Lisa Leschnig
Guido Schwerdt
Katarina Zigova
Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC
Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 90, 102289)
I20, J24, J31
14106 Alessio Gaggero
Joan Gil
Dolores Jiménez-Rubio
Eugenio Zucchelli
Health Information and Lifestyle Behaviours: The Impact of a Diabetes Diagnosis
We estimate short- and long-term causal impacts of a type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) diagnosis on lifestyle behaviours. We employ a fuzzy regression discontinuity design exploiting the exogenous ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2022, 314, 115420)
C21, I10, I12
14105 Lester Lusher
Geoffrey C. Schnorr
Rebecca L.C. Taylor
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data
We provide causal evidence of an ex ante moral hazard effect of Unemployment Insurance (UI) by matching plausibly exogenous changes in UI benefit duration across state-weeks during the Great ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 285 - 319)
I38, J24, J38, J65, L81
14104 Alex Bryson
Babatunde Buraimo
Alex Farnell
Rob Simmons
Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance
One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 71 (3), 295-322)
63, Z22
14103 Miqdad Asaria
Joan Costa-Font
Frank A. Cowell
How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?
We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy, and Germany, as well as the effect of personal shocks on employment ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2023, 61, 625–647)
I18, I30, I38
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