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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
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
13973 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Gender Differences in College Applications: Aspiration and Risk Management
We study gender differences in decision-making strategy when applying for college using applications data for all college applicants in Ireland over the 2015-17 period. Detailed information on high ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102077)
I2
13971 Pierre Koning
Paul Muller
Roger Prudon
Do Disability Benefits Hinder Work Resumption after Recovery?
While a large share of Disability Insurance recipients are expected to recover, outflow rates from temporary disability schemes are typically negligible. We estimate the disincentive effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102593)
J08, I1, J22
13970 John V. Winters
Problem on the Plains: College Earnings Premiums in Small Metropolitan Areas
I use the American Community Survey to examine how college earnings premiums differ across small metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the U.S. I document that the West North Central Division ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy, 2021, 51 (1), 1-13)
J20, J30, R10
13969 Ibrahim Alhawarin
Ragui Assaad
Ahmed Elsayed
Migration Shocks and Housing: Short-Run Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan
This paper investigates the impact of migration shocks on housing conditions and rental prices for the local population. The identification comes from the regional variation in the large influx of ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2021, 53, 101761)
O18, R21, R23
13968 Simone Balestra
Aurélien Sallin
Stefan C. Wolter
High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates
This paper examines how exposure to students identified as gifted (IQ ≥ 130) affects achievement in secondary school, enrollment in post-compulsory education, and occupational choices. By using ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources 2023, 58 (2), 633-665;)
I21, I24, I26, J24
13967 Farzana Afridi
Sisir Debnath
E. Somanathan
A Breath of Fresh Air: Raising Awareness for Clean Fuel Adoption
Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign ...
(published in Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151, 102675)
D10, D90, I15, Q53
13964 Manuel Bagues
Christopher Roth
Interregional Contact and National Identity
We study the long-run effects of contact with individuals from other regions on beliefs, preferences and national identity. We combine a natural experiment, the random assignment of male conscripts ...
(published as 'Interregional Contact and the Formation of a Shared Identity' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 322–350)
R23, D91, Z1
13963 Francesco Fasani
Jacopo Mazza
Being on the Frontline? Immigrant Workers in Europe and the COVID-19 Pandemic
We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (5), 890-918)
F22, J61, J20
13962 Kai Ingwersen
Stephan L. Thomsen
An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany
Workload and its physical and mental burden can have detrimental effects on individual health. As different jobs are associated with specific patterns of health development, occupational selection of ...
(published in: BMC Public Health, 2024, 24, 2164 .)
I14, J15, J81
13960 Grace Chang
Marta Favara
Rafael Novella
The Origins of Cognitive Skills and Non-cognitive Skills: The Long-Term Effect of in-Utero Rainfall Shocks in India
Skills are an important predictor of labour, education, and wellbeing outcomes. Understanding the origins of skills formation is important for reducing future inequalities. This paper analyses the ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 44, 101089)
J24, I14
13958 Hai-Anh H Dang
Cuong Viet Nguyen
Did a Successful Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic Come at a Cost? Impacts of the Outbreak on Employment Outcomes in Vietnam
Vietnam is widely praised for its successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country has had an extremely low mortality rate of 35 deaths to date (out of a population of approximately 100 ...
(published in: World Development, 2023, 161, 106129)
E24, I30, J21, O12
13957 Teresa Molina
Mari Tanaka
Globalization and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Myanmar
This paper examines whether globalization promotes female empowerment by improving the jobs available to women. Previous work has documented that exporting causally improved working conditions at ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71 (2), 519-565)
J12, F66
13955 Pedro Carneiro
Lucy Kraftman
Giacomo Mason
Lucie Moore
Imran Rasul
Molly Scott
The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life
We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained improvements in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (8), 2506–4259))
I15, O15
13954 Nadja Bömmel
Guido Heineck
Revisiting the Causal Effect of Education on Political Participation and Interest
A substantial number of studies suggests a strong relationship between education and aspects of political participation and interest. Only a small body of literature, however, addresses whether these ...
(substantially revised version published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (6), 664-682 )
I2, H4, H23
13953 Yusuf Emre Akgündüz
Yusuf Kenan Bağır
Seyit Mümin Cilasun
Murat Güray Kirdar
Consequences of a Massive Refugee Influx on Firm Performance and Market Structure
This study combines an administrative dataset of the full population of Turkish firms and the setting of the sudden mass migration of Syrian refugees to Turkey to identify the effect of migrants on ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103081.)
J15, J61, F16, L11
13951 Frank M. Fossen
Johannes König
Carsten Schröder
Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution
We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 66, 735–761)
J22, J23, L26, D14
13950 Philippe Askenazy
Worker Surveillance Capital, Labour Share and Productivity
This paper proposes a basic model with two types of capital: productive capital directly involved in the production process and capital devoted to monitoring workers. Surveillance capital intensifies ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 85–93)
O33, O40, J20, J30
13948 Rossella Calvi
Jacob Penglase
Denni Tommasi
Alexander Wolf
The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families
The structure of a family may have important consequences for the material well-being of its members. For example, in large families, an individual must share resources with many others, but she may ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 160, 102986)
D13, D11, D12, C31, I32
13946 Marie Briguglio
Teresa García-Muñoz
Shoshana Neuman
Environmental Engagement, Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Secularization
Over the past half century, a literature has developed across a range of disciplines exploring the relationship between religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes ...
(published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2020, 15 (10), 15 104098)
O13, P18, Q51, Z12
13945 Christian Grund
Maike Rubin
The Role of Employees' Age for the Relation between Job Autonomy and Sickness Absence
We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical ...
(published in: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2021, 63 (9), 800-807.)
J81, M12
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