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13918 Luis Diaz-Serrano
The Duration of Compulsory Education and the Transition to Secondary Education: Panel Data Evidence from Low-Income Countries
A straightforward way of keeping children in school is increasing the duration of compulsory education. Evidence of the impact of this type of policy in Western countries is abundant. However, its ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2020, 75, 102189)
I21, I25, I28
13917 Simone Bertoli
Elsa Gautrain
Elie Murard
Left Behind, but Not Alone: Changes in Living Arrangements and the Effects of Migration and Remittances in Mexico
We provide evidence that the occurrence of an international migration episode is associated with a variation in the living arrangements of the household members left behind. The migration of a ...
(revised version published as 'Left behind, but not immobile: Living arrangements of Mexican transnational households' in :Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2023, 71(4), 1359-1395)
D10, F22, C83
13916 Ben D'Exelle
Christine Gutekunst
Arno Riedl
The Effect of Gender and Gender Pairing on Bargaining: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
Men and women negotiate differently, which might create gender inequality in access to resources as well as efficiency losses due to disagreement. We study the role of gender and gender pairing in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 237-269)
C9, J16, O12
13915 Chiara Pastore
Stefanie Schurer
Agnieszka Tymula
Nicholas Fuller
Ian Caterson
Economic Preferences and Obesity: Evidence from a Clinical Lab-in-Field Experiment
We study economic decision-making of 284 people with obesity and pre-diabetes who participated in a 6-months randomised controlled trial to control weight and prevent diabetes. To elicit preferences, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (9), 2147-2167)
C9, D9, D81, I12
13914 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Panu Poutvaara
Felicitas Schikora
First Time around: Local Conditions and Multi-Dimensional Integration of Refugees
We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 137, 103588)
F22, J15, J24
13912 Timothy F. Harris
Aaron Yelowitz
Charles Courtemanche
Did COVID-19 Change Life Insurance Offerings?
The profitability of life insurance offerings is contingent on accurate projections and pricing of mortality risk. The COVID-19 pandemic created significant uncertainty, with dire mortality ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2021, 88 (4), 831-861)
D81, I13
13911 Anna Adamecz
Morag Henderson
Nikki Shure
The Labor Market Returns to 'First in Family' University Graduates
We exploit linked survey-administrative data from England to examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1395–1429)
I24, I26, J24
13910 Apostolos Davillas
Andrew M. Jones
Unmet Health Care Need and Income-Related Horizontal Equity in Access during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Using monthly data from the Understanding Society (UKHLS) COVID-19 Survey we analyse the evolution of unmet need and assess how the UK health care system performed against the norm of horizontal ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1711 - 1716)
C1, D63, I14
13909 Sabien Dobbelaere
Boris Hirsch
Steffen Müller
Georg Neuschaeffer
Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia
This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace codetermination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for ...
(substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (3), 396 - 427)
J42, J50, J31, D22
13908 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Brandyn F. Churchill
Yang Song
Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health
The past two decades have been characterized by an unprecedented increase in interior immigration enforcement and heightened stress due to fears of family separation and loss of income among ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 8 (3), 323–358)
I10, I12, K37
13907 Jiang Li
Benoit Dostie
Gaëlle Simard-Duplain
What Is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada?
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, we examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. ...
(published as 'Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status', in: ILR Review, 2023, 76 (1), 160-188)
J16, J31, J51, J71
13904 Thomas Breda
Elyès Jouini
Clotilde Napp
Georgia Thebault
Gender Stereotypes Can Explain the Gender-Equality Paradox
The so-called "gender-equality paradox" is the fact that gender segregation across occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some scholars have explained this ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (49), 31063-3106)
I24, I25, J16
13903 Joan Costa-Font
Mario Gyori
Can Unearned Income Make Us Fitter? Evidence from Lottery Wins
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 2005–2026)
I12, I18, J30
13901 Eduardo Fe
David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes
We investigate how childhood cognitive skills affect strategic sophistication and adult outcomes. In particular, we emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2643–2704)
C91, D91, J24
13900 Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Andreas S. Myhre
Labor Supply Responses to Learning the Tax and Benefit Schedule
While optimization frictions have been shown to attenuate earnings responses to financial incentives, less is understood about the individual factors shaping the response. The main contribution of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (11), 3733–3766)
H20, H31, H55, J22, J26
13898 Francesco Amodio
Miguel A. Martinez-Carrasco
Workplace Incentives and Organizational Learning
This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show how, in the presence of imperfect information over the shape of the production ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics 2023, 41 (2), 453-478)
D22, D24, J24, J33, M11, M52, M54, O12
13896 Vasilisa Petrishcheva
Gerhard Riener
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Loss Aversion in Social Image Concerns
This paper explores whether loss aversion applies to social image concerns. In a simple model, we combine loss aversion in social image concerns and attitudes towards lying. We then test its ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26, 622–645.)
C91, D91
13895 Grant J. Cameron
Hai-Anh H Dang
Mustafa Dinc
James Foster
Michael Lokshin
Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 870-896.)
C8, H00, I00, O1
13894 Uwe Jirjahn
Martha Ottenbacher
Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide an economics-based approach to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 549 - 580)
D10, D91, J10, J12
13893 Hao Dong
Daniel L. Millimet
Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions
Estimation of the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes often requires conditioning on covariates to address selection on observed variables. This is not straightforward when one or more of ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290)
C18, C21, G21, G53
13892 Rishi Sharma
Chad Sparber
Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Search Cost Externalities Induced by H-1B Policy
The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high-skilled foreign citizens. H-1B workers are highly concentrated among a small number of firms. We develop a theoretical ...
(published as 'Buying lottery tickets for foreign workers: Lost quota rents induced by H-1B policy' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 150, 103932)
J61, J68, F22
13891 Isabelle Guérin
Christophe Jalil Nordman
Elena Reboul
The Gender of Debt and Credit: Insights from Rural Tamil Nadu
The champions of financial inclusion regret women’s lack of access to credit, while critics of financialization, by contrast, claim that women have become overly indebted. But little is actually ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105363)
G51, O16, J16, D14
13888 Carl Lin
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Social Disadvantage and Children's Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households
This article uses an innovative rural-urban migrant survey to assess how social disadvantage is associated with children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage ...
(published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2019, 28 (120), 899-915)
I10, J61
13885 Kota Ogasawara
Mizuki Komura
Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35 (3), 1037-1069)
J11, J12, J13, J16, N15, N35
13884 Carole Comerton-Forde
John de New
Nicolás Salamanca
David C. Ribar
Andrea Nicastro
James Ross
Measuring Financial Wellbeing with Self-Reported and Bank-Record Data
This study develops multi-item scales of the financial wellbeing of customers of a major Australian bank using self-reported survey data that are matched with the customers' financial records. Using ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (321), 133-151)
D1, I3
13883 Michael Johannes Böhm
Terry Gregory
Pamela Qendrai
Christian Siegel
Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets
Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2021, 7 (1), 113 - 131)
J11, J31, R23
13882 Vincenzo Carrieri
Francesco Principe
WHO and for How Long? An Empirical Analysis of the Consumers' Response to Red Meat Warning
Do health warnings change consumer behaviour? And for how long? We address these questions by studying the effects of the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We ...
(published in: Food Policy, 108, 2022, 102231.)
D12, I18, Q18
13881 Amanda Guimbeau
Xinde James Ji
Nidhiya Menon
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Mining and Gender Gaps in India
This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of ...
(published as 'Mining and women’s agency: Evidence on acceptance of domestic violence and shared decision-making in India' in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106135)
O13, Q32, J16, J12
13880 Jean-François Fagnart
Marc Germain
Bruno Van der Linden
Working Time Reduction and Employment in a Finite World
We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in an exogenous growth model with unemployment (due to efficiency wage considerations) and a renewable natural resource. The ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (1), 170 – 20.)
J68, O44, Q57
13879 Aparna Soni
Erdal Tekin
How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the United States. Research shows that mass shootings have significant detrimental ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, June 2023)
I12, I18, K42
13878 Tony Fang
Morley Gunderson
Carl Lin
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers, and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data
We use the substantial variation in both the magnitude and frequency of minimum wage changes that have occurred in China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2021, 25 (2), 854–877)
J38, J88
13877 Almudena Sevilla
Gender Economics: An Assessment
Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 725–742, )
D31, D63, F60
13876 Shanquan Chen
Xi Chen
Stephen Law
Henry Lucas
Shenlan Tang
Qian Long
Lei Xue
Zheng Wang
Pension and Health Services Utilization: Evidence from Social Pension Expansion in China
The proportion of people aged 60 years or over is growing faster than other age groups. The well-being older adults depend heavily on their state of health. This study evaluates the effects of ...
(published in: BMC Health Services Research, 2020, 20, 1008 )
I11, I18, J14, H55
13875 Wim Naudé
Martin Cameron
Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the ...
(published in: Notas Economicas, 2021, 52 (1), 7–53)
F17, F14, I15, L52
13874 Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Krzysztof Karbownik
The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102612)
I120, I180, J130
13873 Fortuna Casoria
Ernesto Reuben
Christina Rott
The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information
We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the ...
(published in: Management Science, 2022, 68, 6336-6345)
J71, D91, D82
13872 Jan Bietenbeck
Own Motivation, Peer Motivation, and Educational Success
I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I find that academic motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological ...
(revised version published online as 'Do Motivated Classmates Matter for Educational Success?' in: Economic Journal, 27 June 2024)
I21, J13, J24
13871 Martin Abel
Daniel Buchman
The Effect of Manager Gender and Performance Feedback: Experimental Evidence from India
We hire 1,800 Indian gig economy workers for a real-effort transcription task and randomize the gender of the (fictitious) manager as well as the delivery of performance feedback. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 73 (1), 307–338)
J50, J70
13870 Liang Chen
Juan J. Dolado
Jesús Gonzalo
Quantile Factor Models
Quantile factor models (QFM) represent a new class of factor models for high-dimensional panel data. Unlike approximate factor models (AFM), which only extract mean factors, QFM also allow unobserved ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2021, 89, 875-910.)
C31, C33, C38
13869 Juan J. Dolado
Florentino Felgueroso
Juan F. Jimeno
The Spanish Labour Market at the Crossroads: COVID-19 Meets the Megatrends
This paper reviews the experience so far of the Spanish labour market during the Covid-19 crisis in the light of current institutions, past performance during recessions, and the policy measures ...
(published in: Applied Economic Analysis, 2021, 29 (85), 21-41.)
J64, J68
13868 Yanqiao Zheng
Xiaoqi Zhang
Yu Zhu
Overeducation, Major Mismatch, and Return to Higher Education Tiers: Evidence from Novel Data Source of a Major Online Recruitment Platform in China
We develop a novel approach to study overeducation by extracting pre-match information from online recruitment platforms using word segmentation and dictionary building techniques, which can offer ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 66 (1), 101584)
I23, I26
13867 Antti Kauhanen
Terhi Maczulskij
Krista Riukula
Heterogeneous Impacts of the Decentralization of Collective Bargaining
This paper analyses the heterogeneous effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on the incidence of wage increases and wage dispersion in Finland. We use linked employer-employee panel ...
(published online as 'The incidence and effects of decentralized wage bargaining in Finland' in: Journal of Labor Research, 5 April 2024)
J31, J51, J52
13866 Juliane Hennecke
Astrid Pape
Suddenly a Stay-at-Home Dad? Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Fathers' Job Loss on Time Investment in the Household
Commonly described as the "gender care gap", there is a persistent gender difference in the division of domestic responsibilities in most developed countries. We provide novel evidence on the short- ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 20 (2), 579-607)
J13, J22, J63
13865 Barry Eichengreen
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Orkun Saka
Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise. We test this hypothesis by examining how exposure ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104343)
D83, F50, I19
13864 Cristina Bicchieri
Eugen Dimant
Simon Gächter
Daniele Nosenzo
Social Proximity and the Erosion of Norm Compliance
We study how individuals' compliance with norms of pro-social behavior is influenced by other actors' compliance in a novel, dynamic, and non-strategic experimental setting. We are particularly ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022,132, 59-72)
C92, D64, D9
13862 Leonardo Baccini
Abel Brodeur
Stephen Weymouth
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we estimate the effect of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the change in county-level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (2), 739-767)
D72, I18
13861 David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Kaveh Majlesi
Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110(10), 3139-3189)
D72, F14, F16, F68
13860 Robert Dur
Ola Kvaløy
Anja Schöttner
Labor-Market Conditions and Leadership Styles
Why do some leaders use praise as a means to motivate workers, while other leaders use social punishment? This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (4), 3150-3168)
D2, J3, M5
13858 Bruno Jiménez
Silvio Rendon
Does Employment Protection Unprotect Workers? The Labor Market Effects of Job Reinstatements in Peru
We investigate the labor market effects of the reestablishment of private-sector workers' right to reinstatement for unfair dismissals, which occurred in 2002 in Peru. Using data from Peruvian ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102286)
J23, J65, E24
13857 A. Stefano Caria
Simon Franklin
Marc J. Witte
Searching with Friends
We study how active labor market policies affect the exchange of information and support among jobseekers. Leveraging a unique social network survey in Ethiopia, we find that a randomized job-search ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 887–922)
D85, L14, O12, J64, D8
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