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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
14076 Nora Cheng
Elliott Fan
Tsong-Min Wu
Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding
This study investigates the sudden disappearance of foot-binding, a costly custom practiced for centuries in China and Taiwan prior to its demise. We estimate the numbers of women who unbound their ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 157, 102876.)
J16, N35, Z13
14075 Phoebe Kotlikoff
Ahmed S. Rahman
Katherine Smith
Minding the Gap: Academic Outcomes from Pre-college Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of assignment to a one-year college preparatory program on academic performance in college. To measure the value added from pre-college programs, we use a large ...
(published in: Education Economics 2022, 30 (19), 3-24 )
I20, J24
14074 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence
There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and achievement than males and this is particularly the case for children from less ...
(published as: The Economics of Gender and Educational Achievement: Stylized Facts and Causal Evidence, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press, August 2021)
I24, J16
14073 Anirban Mitra
Sarmistha Pal
Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities
We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where local institutions are salient. Specifically, the latter affects coordination ...
(published as 'Ethnic Diversity, Social Norms and Elite Capture: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia' in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 947 - 996)
D72, D74, H40
14071 Aaron Yelowitz
Samuel J. Ingram
How Does Occupational Licensing Affect Entry into the Medical Field? An Examination of EMTs
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to temporary suspensions of many occupational licensing laws, especially for health care professionals, in an effort to manage surges in health care demand. The ...
(published as 'How does occupational licensing affect entry into the medical field? An examination of emergency medical technicians' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 38 - 61)
J44, K31, I13
14070 David L. Dickinson
Caleb Garbuio
The Influence of Dietary Patterns on Outcomes in a Bayesian Choice Task
This paper reports on a preregistered study aimed at testing for executive function differences across individuals who self-reported one of four distinct dietary patterns: No Diet, No Sugar, ...
(revised version published in: Health Science Reports, 2021, 4 (3), e369 )
D90, C90, I10
14069 Michael Jetter
Kieran Stockley
Gender Match and the Gender Gap in Venture Capital Financing: Evidence from Shark Tank
Although the gender gap in entrepreneurs' success rates to secure funding is staggering, we know little about its causes. This is because observing both sides of investor-entrepreneur interactions ...
(published as 'Gender match and negotiation: evidence from angel investment on Shark Tank' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 1947 - 1977)
D91, G11, G24, G41, J16
14068 Oded Stark
Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens: Comment
In a recent article, "Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of ...
(published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (1), 379 - 381)
B54, D13, G51, J16, J61, O15, R23
14066 Bilge Erten
Pinar Keskin
Female Employment and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows to Turkey
We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By ...
(pubished in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102607)
F22, J12, O15
14064 Claudio Deiana
Andrea Geraci
Gianluca Mazzarella
Fabio Sabatini
COVID-19 Relief Programs and Compliance with Confinement Measures
We study the impact of a COVID-19 relief program on compliance with confinement measures in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. We match information on the allocation of funds across Italian ...
(revised version published as 'Can relief measures nudge compliance in a public health crisis? Evidence from a kinked fiscal policy rule" in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 407-428 )
D12, D83, H51, H31, I12, K40
14062 Arnab K. Basu
Ralitza Dimova
Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia
This paper revisits the causes behind child labor supply by focusing on an aspect that has received little attention: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45)
C93, J43, O55
14061 Xi Chen
Annie Fan
Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be ...
(pubished as 'The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy: a syndemic perspective' in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2021, 19 (3), 239 - 255)
I18, J24, H12, P41, H51
14058 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Oleksandr Talavera
Nam Vu
Quality and Price Setting of High-Tech Goods
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 98, 69 - 85)
E31, L11, L81, L86
14057 Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
The First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Socioeconomic Inequality in Psychological Distress in the UK
We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in psychological distress, measured by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), before ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1668 - 1683)
C1, D63, I12, I14
14056 Peter Fredriksson
Kristiina Huttunen
Björn Öckert
School Starting Age, Maternal Age at Birth, and Child Outcomes
This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102637)
J13, I21
14053 Sami H. Miaari
Nabil Khattab
Vered Kraus
Yuval P. Yonay
Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction: Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children's Educational Attainment across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel
This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on ...
(published in: International Journal of Sociology, 2021, 51 (3), 171 - 196)
J15, I24, I26, J62
14050 Oded Stark
Grzegorz Kosiorowski
Turning Relative Deprivation into a Performance Incentive Device
The inclination of individuals to improve their performance when it lags behind that of others with whom they naturally compare themselves can be harnessed to optimize the individuals' effort in work ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2021, 45 (1), 22-36)
D01, D02, D23, D61, D90, L22, M11, M52
14048 Jessica H. Brown
Chris M. Herbst
Child Care over the Business Cycle
We estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the child care market. We find that the industry is substantially more exposed to the business cycle than other low-wage industries and responds ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (S1), S429-S468)
J13, J21, E32, J24
14047 Antoine Le Riche
Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
Intra-Industry Trade, Involuntary Unemployment and Macroeconomic Stability
We study the impact of intra-industry trade and capital mobility on steady state welfare and on the stability properties of two countries with identical technologies and preferences. We consider a ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2022, 99, 102589)
C62, E32, F12, F43, F44, O41
14046 Guyonne Kalb
Ha Vu
Teenage Mother's Health across Different Life Stages
Many women who give birth during their teenage years face lifetime disadvantages in health, social and economic domains. To develop effective policies to support these teenage mothers, it is ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (321), 191-213.)
I14, I31, J13
14044 Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
Abdelkrim Araar
Eduardo A. Malásquez
Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoa
Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and ...
(published in: Telecommunications Policy, 2022, 46 (2), 102243)
C15, D40, D60, I32, L86, N77
14042 Steven J. Bosworth
Dennis J. Snower
Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2024, 62, 197 - 232)
D63, D69, D71, E71, I39, O33, Z10
14041 Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Magdalena M. Ulceluse
Europe's Migration Experience and its Effects on Economic Inequality
This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review ...
(published in: Georg Fischer and Robert Strauss (eds.), Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, Oxford: OUP, 2021 )
D31, D60, O15
14040 Maria De Paola
Roberto Nistico
Vincenzo Scoppa
Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions
We investigate how academic promotions affect the propensity of women to have a child. We use administrative data on the universe of female assistant professors employed in Italian universities from ...
(published in: D. Checchi, T. Jappelli, A. Uricchio (eds.), Teaching, Research and Academic Careers, Springer, 2022, 135 -161)
J13, J65, J41, M51, C31
14039 Semih Tumen
The Effect of Refugees on Native Adolescents' Test Scores: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Pisa
Existing evidence suggests that low-skilled refugee influx may increase educational attainment among native adolescents due to reduced opportunities and returns in the lower segment of the labor ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102633)
I21, I25, I26, J61
14037 Darrell J. Glaser
Ahmed S. Rahman
Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy
This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102407)
J6, J45, J62, N31
14035 Volker Grossmann
Holger Strulik
Illicit Drugs and the Decline of the Middle Class
Empirical evidence for the U.S. suggests that illicit consumption of opioids increases in association with socio-economic deprivation of the middle-class. To explore the underlying mechanisms, we set ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 183, 718-743)
I10, H51
14034 Leonardo Baccini
Abel Brodeur
Sean Nossek
Eran Shor
Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States
This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2016 and exploit the inherent randomness of ...
(published in: Research and Politics, 2021, 8 (1))
D72, D74
14032 Andrea Fazio
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Fabio Sabatini
The Political Cost of Lockdown's Enforcement
We study how the political cost of enforcing a lockdown in response to the COVID- 19 outbreak relates to citizens' propensity for altruistic punishment in Italy, the early epicenter of the pandemic. ...
(revised version published as 'The political cost of sanctions: evidence from COVID-19' in: Health Policy ,2022, 126 (9), 872-878 )
D12, D83, I12, K40
14031 Nicole Gürtzgen
Benjamin Lochner
Laura Pohlan
Gerard J. van den Berg
Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?
This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101981)
J64, H40, L96, C26
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