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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
14029 Andrea Bassanini
Eve Caroli
Francois Fontaine
Antoine Rebérioux
Escaping Social Pressure: Fixed-Term Contracts in Multi-Establishment Firms
We develop a simple theoretical model showing that, by adding to the adjustment costs associated with permanent contracts, local social pressure against dismissals creates an incentive for CEOs to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 188, 697-715)
J23, J41, M14, M55, R12
14028 Robert J. R. Elliott
Wenjing Kuai
David Maddison
Ceren Ozgen
Eco-Innovation and Employment: A Task-Based Analysis
This paper provides some of the first evidence of the relationship between eco-innovation and employment. Adopting a O*NET based task approach, in a study of the Dutch firms, we show that ...
(published as 'Eco-innovation and (green) employment: A task-based approach to measuring the composition of work in firms' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, 127, 103015)
Q52, Q55, J23
14027 Joanna Tyrowicz
Lucas van der Velde
When Opportunity Knocks: Confronting Theory and Empirics about Dynamics of Gender Wage Inequality
We present empirical evidence that large structural shocks are followed by changes in labor market inequality. Specifically, we study short-run fluctuations in adjusted gender wage gaps (unequal pay ...
(published in:Social Indicators Research, 2021, 155, 837 - 864)
C24, J22, J31, J71
14026 Gerard J. van den Berg
Barbara Hofmann
Gesine Stephan
Arne Uhlendorff
Mandatory Integration Agreements for Unemployed Job Seekers: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment in Germany
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs ...
(published online in: International Economic Review, 15 November 2024)
J68, J64, C93
14025 Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
Matthias Sutter
Collective Intertemporal Decisions and Heterogeneity in Groups
Many important intertemporal decisions are made by groups rather than individuals. What happens to collective decisions when there is internal conflict about the tradeoff between present and future ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 130, 131-147)
C91, C92, D03, D90
14024 Adam Ayaita
Christian Grund
Lisa Pütz
Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany
Employment agencies aim to match individuals to appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant in the sense ...
(published in: Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, 2022, 74 (2), 137-162)
J64, L33, M5
14021 Wim Naudé
Nicola Dimitri
Public Procurement and Innovation for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
The possible negative consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have given rise to calls for public policy to ensure that it is safe, and to prevent improper use and misuse. Human-centered AI ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
H57, D02, O38, O32
14020 Petra Persson
Xinyao Qiu
Maya Rossin-Slater
Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and in diagnostic processes. At the same time, an emerging literature documents that ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics)
I14, I18, J13
14018 Giam Pietro Cipriani
Tamara Fioroni
Social Security and Endogenous Demographic Change: Child Support and Retirement Policies
This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2022, 21(3), 307-325.)
D10, H2, H55, J13, J18, J26
14017 Jay C. Shambaugh
Michael R. Strain
The Recovery from the Great Recession: A Long, Evolving Expansion
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2021, 695 (1), 24 - 28)
E00, E24, E3, E6, J21, J31
14016 Ruchir Agarwal
Ina Ganguli
Patrick Gaule
Geoff Smith
Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2023, 52 (1), 104669)
O33, O38, F22, J61
14015 Stefano Lombardi
Gerard J. van den Berg
Johan Vikström
Empirical Monte Carlo Evidence on Estimation of Timing-of-Events Models
This paper builds on the Empirical Monte Carlo simulation approach developed by Huber et al. (2013) to study the estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2027, 44 (1), 90 - 118)
C14, C15, C41, J64
14014 Julien Benistant
Fabio Galeotti
Marie Claire Villeval
The Distinct Impact of Information and Incentives on Cheating
We study a dynamic variant of the die-under-the-cup task where players can repeatedly misreport the outcomes of consecutive die rolls to earn more money, either under a non- competitive piece rate ...
(revised version published as 'Competition, information, and the erosion of morals' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 148-163, )
C92, M52, D83
14013 Abdurrahman B. Aydemir
Murat Güray Kirdar
Huzeyfe Torun
The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility: Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration
We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for ...
(published as 'The effect of education on internal migration of young men and women: incidence, timing, and type of migration' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 74, 102098)
J61, I2
14012 Steven Stillman
Mirco Tonin
Communities and Testing for COVID-19
Between November 18th and 25th, 2020, 348,810 out of 500,607 (69.7 percent) eligible residents of the South Tyrol region of Italy volunteered to take a Covid-19 rapid antigen test. We examine the ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 617 - 625 )
I12, I18
14011 Fateh Belaïd
Christophe Rault
Energy Expenditure in Egypt: Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression Approach
This paper investigates the key factors affecting household energy expenditure in Egypt. Based upon the latest 2015 Egyptian HIECS Survey, we develop a quantile regression model with an innovative ...
(published in: Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 2021, 26 (4), 511-528)
C11, C21, D12, Q4
14010 Fateh Belaïd
Christophe Rault
Camille Massié
A Life-Cycle Theory Analysis of French Household Electricity Demand
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behavior through the household life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy ...
(published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2022, 32, 501-530)
C23, D12, Q21, Q41
14009 Noam Angrist
Peter Bergman
Moitshepi Matsheng
School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using
Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on ...
(published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, 6, 941 - 950)
I2, I24
14008 Shakeeb Khan
Arnaud Maurel
Yichong Zhang
Informational Content of Factor Structures in Simultaneous Binary Response Models
We study the informational content of factor structures in discrete triangular systems. Factor structures have been employed in a variety of settings in cross sectional and panel data models, and in ...
(published in: Chang, Y., Lee, S. and Miller, J.I. (Eds.) Essays in Honor of Joon Y. Park: Econometric Methodology in Empirical Applications (Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 45B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2023, 385-410)
C14, C31, C35
14007 Gaia Dossi
David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza
The Family Origin of the Math Gender Gap Is a White Affluent Phenomenon
Previous research has shown that norms around the role of women in society could help explain the gender gap in mathematics and that these norms could be transmitted within the family. Using data ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 179 - 183)
A13, I20, J16, Z1
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