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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 Belaďd
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 Belaďd
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
14003 Xintong Wang
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Future Violent and Non-Violent Incarcerations and Recidivism?
Employing nonparametric bounds, we examine the effect of military service on incarceration outcomes using the Vietnam draft lotteries as a possibly invalid instrumental variable for military service. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (5), 1715 - 1757)
K4, C31, C36
14002 Oded Stark
Ruxanda Berlinschi
Community Influence as an Explanatory Factor Why Roma Children Get Little Schooling
Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2021, 189, 93–11)
J15, J24, J70, O12, Z13
14000 Claudia Hupkau
Ingo E. Isphording
Stephen Machin
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
Labour Market Shocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Inequalities and Child Outcomes
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market ...
(revised version published as 'Labour Market Shocks and Parental Investments during the Covid-19 Pandemic' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102341 )
J63, J65, I20, I24
13999 Gary Charness
Ramón Cobo-Reyes
Erik Eyster
Gabriel Katz
Ángela Sánchez
Matthias Sutter
Improving Healthy Eating in Children: Experimental Evidence
We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children in elementary schools. Previous interventions have typically paid participants ...
(revised version publishedd as 'Improving children’s food choices: Experimental evidence from the field: in: European Economic Review, 2023, 159, 104562 )
C93, I12
13997 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Moms' Time - Married or Not
Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household ...
(published in: Jose Alberto Molina (ed.), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer Publishers, 2022, 1-27.)
J22, J12, I31
13996 Niaz Asadullah
Nazia Mansoor
Teresa Randazzo
Zaki Wahhaj
Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Historically, son preference has been widely prevalent in South Asia, manifested in the form of skewed sex ratios, gender differentials in child mortality, and worse educational investments in ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 140, 105353)
J11, J13, J16, O12
13995 Asadul Islam
Debayan Pakrashi
Michael Vlassopoulos
Liang Choon Wang
Stigma and Misconceptions in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Field Experiment in India
A hidden cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is the stigma associated with the disease for those infected and groups that are considered as more likely to be infected. This paper examines whether the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 278, 113966)
D83, I18, J16, J18
13990 Naomitsu Yashiro
Tomi Kyyrä
Hyunjeong Hwang
Juha Tuomala
Technology, Labour Market Institutions and Early Retirement: Evidence from Finland
There are two major barriers to increasing employment of older workers. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2022, 37, 811-849)
H55, J26, J65, O33
13989 Ronald Bachmann
Gökay Demir
Hanna Frings
Labour Market Polarisation, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power
Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S11-S49)
J24, J42, J62
13988 Kalena E. Cortes
Daniel Klasik
Uniform Admissions, Unequal Access: Did the Top 10% Plan Increase Access to Selective Flagship Institutions?
The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 87, 102199)
I21, I24, J18
13987 Alexander Ahammer
Stefan Bauernschuster
Martin Halla
Hannah Lachenmaier
Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102571)
I12, I18, H75, J13
13986 Semih Tumen
Belgi Turan
The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65 (4), 1855-1894)
J21, J22, J13, J31
13985 Pelin Akyol
Naci Mocan
Education and Consanguineous Marriage
At least one of every five marriages is consanguineous (between couples who are second cousins or closer) in the Middle East and North Africa, and the rate is higher than 50 percent in some parts of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2023, 17 (1), 114 - 171)
I18, I26, I21, J1, Z1
13984 Alexander Ahammer
Dominik Grübl
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The Health Externalities of Downsizing
We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML ...
(published online as 'The Health Effects of Downsizing Survival' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
J63, I12, J23
13983 Marina Della Giusta
Steven J. Bosworth
Bias and Discrimination: What Do We Know?
The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 925-943.)
D9, J7
13982 Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur
Muserref Kucukbayrak
Semih Tumen
The Impact of Age-Specific Minimum Wages on Youth Employment and Education: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
We exploit an age-specific minimum wage rule – which sets a lower minimum wage for workers of age 15 than that for workers of age 16 and above in Turkey – and its abolition to estimate the causal ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (6), 1352-1377)
J21, J24, J31, J38
13981 Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo
Katarzyna Platt
Hyoung Suk Shim
Managerial Performance of a Female-Owned and Home-Based Firm
Female entrepreneurship has been regarded as inferior to its male equivalent in terms of performance. Literature on gender differences in entrepreneurship focus mostly on showing the differences, but ...
(published online in: Small Business Economics, 17 January 2023)
L25, L26, J16
13977 Fabio Galeotti
Valeria Maggian
Marie Claire Villeval
Fraud Deterrence Institutions Reduce Intrinsic Honesty
Deterrence institutions are widely used in modern societies to discourage rule violations but whether they have an impact beyond their immediate scope of application is usually ignored. Using a ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2508-2528. )
C93, K42, D02, D91
13976 Colin P. Green
Lana Krehic
An Extra Hour Wasted? Bar Closing Hours and Traffic Accidents in Norway
Driving under the influence of alcohol is a major cause of fatalities worldwide. There have been a range of legislative and policy interventions that aim to address this. Bar closing hours is one ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (8), 1752 - 1769)
I18, R41
13975 José-Ignacio Antón
Enrique Fernández-Macías
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Does Robotization Affect Job Quality? Evidence from European Regional Labour Markets
Whereas there are recent papers on the effect of robot adoption on employment and wages, there is no evidence on how robots affect non-monetary working conditions. We explore the impact of robot ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (3), 232 - 256)
J24, J81, O33
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