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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
14101 Minhyuk Nam
Soohyung Lee
COVID-19 and Employment in South Korea: Trends and Comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use two complementary methods. First, using individual-level data without residence ...
(published in: Seoul Journal of Economics, 2021, 34 (1), 43 - 80)
E3, J2, J6
14100 Paolo Brunori
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Vito Peragine
Prioritarianism and Equality of Opportunity
This paper asks whether prioritarianism – the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the worse-off – is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Ole Norheim (eds.), Prioritarianism in Practice, Cambridge: CUP, 2022)
D63, I31
14099 Farzana Afridi
Kanika Mahajan
Nikita Sangwan
Employment Guaranteed? Social Protection during a Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential of social protection programs in mitigating labor market shocks. We examine the role of one of the world's largest employment guarantee schemes, ...
(published in: Oxford Open Economics, 2022, 1, odab003)
J68, H31
14098 Yuting Qian
Xi Chen
Diwen Tang
Amy S. Kelley
Jing Li
Cognitive Impairment and Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses among U.S. Older Adults
Cognitive impairment creates significant challenges to health and well-being of the fast-growing aging population. Early recognition of cognitive impairment may confer important advantages, allowing ...
(published as 'Prevalence of Memory-Related Diagnoses Among U.S. Older Adults With Early Symptoms of Cognitive Impairment' in: Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 2021, 76 (10), 1846 - 1853)
I11, I14, J14, I18, R20
14097 Sven Resnjanskij
Jens Ruhose
Simon Wiederhold
Ludger Woessmann
Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 1013-1062)
I24, J24, H52
14096 Seth Gershenson
Identifying and Producing Effective Teachers
Teachers are among the most important school-provided determinants of student success. Effective teachers improve students' test scores as well as their attendance, behavior, and earnings as adults. ...
(published in: Economic Foundations of Education (Educational Foundations, 5), Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 135-158.)
I24, I21
14093 John T. Giles
Xin Meng
Sen Xue
Guochang Zhao
Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021,150,102645.)
H53, H55, J46, J61, O15, O17, O53, P35
14092 Margherita Comola
Carla Inguaggiato
Mariapia Mendola
Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil
We study the role of social learning in the diffusion of cash crops in a resettled village economy in northeastern Brazil. We combine detailed geo-coded data on farming plots with dyadic data on ...
(revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 221, 17-34)
C45, D85, J15, O33, Q15
14091 Michèle Belot
Philipp Kircher
Paul Muller
Eliciting Time Preferences When Income and Consumption Vary: Theory, Validation & Application to Job Search
We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time. It relies on lottery tickets ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics)
D90, J64
14089 Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
The Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Parents' Labor Market Outcomes
We examine the labor market impacts of the Affordable Care Act dependent mandate (ACA-DM), which has significantly increased dependent children's health insurance coverage through parents' ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102128)
I18, J32, H51
14088 Sholeh A. Maani
Le Wen
Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis
Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (24), 2771 - 2790)
C23, I21, J24, J31
14086 Daiji Kawaguchi
Yuko Mori
Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation
We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of indexation of the local minimum wage to the local cost of living. The revision of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 388-408.)
J23, J38, J42, J64, J81
14085 Kurt Mitman
Stanislav Rabinovich
Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19
We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The optimal policy with commitment follows a modified Baily-Chetty formula that ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104447)
J65, E6, H1
14084 Francesco Campo
Sara Giunti
Mariapia Mendola
The Refugee Crisis and Right-Wing Populism: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy
This paper examines how the 2014-2017 'refugee crisis' in Italy affected voting behaviour and the rise of right-wing populism in national Parliamentary elections. We collect unique administrative ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 168, 104826)
D72, F22, O15, P16
14083 Alexia Delfino
Breaking Gender Barriers: Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
Traditionally female-dominated sectors are growing and male-dominated ones shrinking, yet sectorial male shares are not changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment ...
(published in: Amercian Economic Review, 2024, 114 (6), 1816 -1853)
D23, D83, J24, J7, M5
14082 Philippe Aghion
Antonin Bergeaud
John Van Reenen
The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2894 -2936)
O31, L11, L51, J8, L25
14081 Eiji Yamamura
Giorgio Brunello
The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents: Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2023, 37 (2), 149 - 163)
J13, J14, J16, I31
14080 Bruna Guidetti
Paula Pereda
Edson Severnini
'Placebo Tests' for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure
When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 371 - 375)
I15, Q53, Q56, O13
14079 Ruchir Agarwal
Patrick Gaule
What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity—measured by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102591)
O31, O38, J24
14077 Cristina Borra
Maria Iacovou
Almudena Sevilla
Adolescence Development and the Math Gender Gap
Using different production function models, we study the causal association between adolescence development and the increase in the gap in math performance between boys and girls. We use data from ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 158, 104542)
I21, I24, J16
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