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13822 Silvia Robles
Max Gross
Robert W. Fairlie
The Effect of Course Shutouts on Community College Students: Evidence from Waitlist Cutoffs
One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which funding levels impact college students is course availability—colleges are often forced to respond to budgetary pressure by reducing course ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104409)
I23
13820 Elisabeth Grewenig
Philipp Lergetporer
Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
Larissa Zierow
COVID-19 and Educational Inequality: How School Closures Affect Low- and High-Achieving Students
In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 140, 103920)
I24, J62, D30
13819 Hugues Champeaux
Lucia Mangiavacchi
Francesca Marchetta
Luca Piccoli
Learning at Home: Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development during the COVID-19 Lockdown
School closures, forced by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, impacted on children's lives and their learning process. There will likely be substantial and persistent disparities between families ...
(published as 'Child development and distance learning in the age of COVID-19' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 659 - 685)
I24, J13, J24
13818 Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Michael R. Strain
Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Taking the Long View
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million children out of poverty each year. Targeted to low-income households with children, ...
(published in: Tax Policy and the Economy, 2021, 35, 87–129)
J22, J28, H31, I38
13816 Hai-Anh H Dang
Edmund Malesky
Cuong Viet Nguyen
Inequality and Support for Government Responses to COVID-19
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2022, 17 (9), e0272972.)
D0, H0, I3, O1
13815 Ashwini Deshpande
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from India
Examining high frequency national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) on paid work (employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper ...
(published in: Economia Politica, 2022, 39, 75 - 100)
J1, J6, O53
13814 Moundir Lassassi
Aysit Tansel
Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected Mena Countries: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Female Labor Force Participation in Egypt and Palestine: An Age-Period- Cohort Analysis' in: Review of Development Economics, 2022, 26 (4), 1997-2020. )
C23, C25, D1, J21
13813 George Orlov
Douglas McKee
James Berry
Austin Boyle
Thomas J. DiCiccio
Tyler Ransom
Alex Rees-Jones
Joerg Stoye
Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, but How You Teach
We use standardized end-of-course knowledge assessments to examine student learning during the disruptions induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining seven economics courses taught at four US R1 ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 202, 109812)
A22, I23
13812 Thomas Markussen
Smriti Sharma
Saurabh Singhal
Finn Tarp
Inequality, Institutions and Cooperation
We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 138, 103842, p.13)
H41, D73, D90, O12
13809 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
What can employers learn from personality tests when job applicants have incentives to misrepresent themselves? Using a within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 64 (3), 1268 - 1291)
C91, D82, M50
13807 Dan Anderberg
Arnaud Chevalier
Lena Hassani Nezhad
Melanie Lührmann
Ronni Pavan
Higher Education Financing and the Educational Aspirations of Teenagers and their Parents
We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We exploit a reform which introduced a large increase in the maximum university ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 85, 102175)
I23, I22, I24, J24, D84
13806 Stephan L. Thomsen
Johannes Trunzer
Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Starting in 1999, the Bologna Process reformed the German five-year study system for a first degree into the three-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve ...
(revised version published online in: Journal of Human Capital, 11 October 2024)
I23, I28, J24
13805 Stefano Castriota
Marco Delmastro
Mirco Tonin
National or Local? The Demand for News in Italy during COVID-19
Looking at TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic, we investigate whether demand for national and local news depends on national or local events. Exploiting the fact that ...
(published as 'National or local infodemic? The demand for news in Italy during COVID-19' in: International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2023, 23, 507–536)
D12, L82
13804 Mark Mitchell
Marta Favara
Catherine Porter
Alan Sanchez
Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills
We estimate a dynamic model of multidimensional human capital development from childhood through adolescence and into early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 June 2023, 1120-11342R)
C38, J13, J24, O15, O54
13803 Badi H. Baltagi
Alain Pirotte
Zhenlin Yang
Diagnostic Tests for Homoskedasticity in Spatial Cross-Sectional or Panel Models
We propose an Adjusted Quasi-Score (AQS) method for constructing tests for homoskedasticity in spatial econometric models. We first obtain an AQS function by adjusting the score-type function from ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 224 (2), 245-270. )
C12, C18, C21, C23
13800 Yafei Si
Zhongliang Zhou
Min Su
Han Hu
Zesen Yang
Xi Chen
Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care: Comparisons among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China
Doing "more" in healthcare can be a major threat to the delivery of high-quality health care. This study used coarsened exact matching to test the hypothesis of supplier-induced demand (SID) by ...
(published as 'Comparison of health care utilization among patients affiliated and not affiliated with healthcare professionals in China' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2020, 20, 1118)
I11, D82, I12, D90
13798 Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt
Mats Köster
Matthias Sutter
To Buy or Not to Buy? Price Salience in an Online Shopping Field Experiment
We examine whether shrouding or partitioning of a surcharge raises demand in online shopping. In a field experiment with more than 34,000 consumers, we find that consumers in the online shop of a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103593)
D81, C93
13796 Aline Bütikofer
Rita Ginja
Fanny Landaud
Katrine Vellesen Loken
School Selectivity, Peers, and Mental Health
Although many students suffer from anxiety and depression, and students often identify school pressure and concerns about their futures as the main reasons for their worries, little is known about ...
(published as 'Higher-Achievement Schools, Peers and Mental Health' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (655), 2580–2613)
I21, I26, I12
13795 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Dozie Okoye
Belgi Turan
Expressway to Power: Infrastructure Projects and Political Support
This paper provides causal evidence on how political parties consolidate power in an electoral democracy. We collect administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development ...
(revised version published as 'Expressway to Votes: Infrastructure Projects and Voter Persuasion' in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 48-94.)
H54, N45, N95, O18, P16
13794 Pierre Cahuc
Stéphane Carcillo
Bérengčre Patault
Flavien Moreau
Judge Bias in Labor Courts and Firm Performance
Does labor court uncertainty and judge subjectivity influence firms performance? We study the economic consequences of judge decisions by collecting information on more than 145,000 Appeal court ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (3), 1319 - 1366)
J33, J63, J65
13793 Emily A. Beam
Search Costs and the Determinants of Job Search
This paper examines how individuals select into job search in terms of their individual qualifications and perceptions and measures how recruiting additional applicants with a modest job-search ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101968)
O15, J64, D83, C93
13791 Emma Duchini
Clémentine Van Effenterre
School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1052 - 1089)
H52, J13, J16, J22
13790 Ingo E. Isphording
Marc Lipfert
Nico Pestel
School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases
This paper studies the effect of the end of school summer breaks on SARS-CoV-2 cases in Germany. We exploit variation in the staggered timing of summer breaks across federal states which allows us to ...
(revised version published as 'Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104426)
I12, I18, I28
13789 Jan Sauermann
Anders Stenberg
Assessing Selection Bias in Non-Experimental Estimates of the Returns to Workplace Training
We assess selection bias in estimated returns to workplace training by exploiting a field experiment with random assignment of workers to a one-week training program. We compare experimental ...
(revised version available here)
J24, C93, M53
13788 Paola Giuliano
Andrea Matranga
Historical Data: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them
The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments ...
(published in: Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, Elsevier, 2021, 95-123)
N0
13787 John H. Pencavel
The Performance of Consumers' Cooperatives in America
A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2020, 3 (1), 1-27)
P13, P17, N82
13786 Karina Doorley
Claire Keane
Tax-Benefit Systems and the Gender Gap in Income
The gender wage gap and the gender work gap are sizable, persistent and well documented for many countries. The result of the gender wage and gender work gap combined is an income gap between men and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 285 - 309)
J16, J31
13784 Lisa A. Cameron
Jennifer Seager
Manisha Shah
Crimes against Morality: Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Sex Work
We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not in neighboring ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136 (1), 427–469, )
I18, K42, J16
13782 Laurent Bossavie
Yoon Y. Cho
Rachel Heath
The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103107)
F16, J16, J31, J32, J81, O12
13781 Anna Aizer
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? Why Children of Teen Mothers Do Worse in Life
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6), 2012-2047;)
J12, J13, I31, I32
13779 Jordy Meekes
Wolter Hassink
Fired and Pregnant: Gender Differences in Job Flexibility Outcomes after Job Loss
We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently. We use 2006-2017 Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement because of firm ...
(published as 'Gender differences in job flexibility: Commutes and working hours after job loss' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2022, 129, 103425)
J16, J22, J31, J32, J6, R2
13778 Silvia Mendolia
Olena Stavrunova
Oleg Yerokhin
Determinants of the Community Mobility during the COVID-19 Epidemic: The Role of Government Regulations and Information
This paper studies the dynamics of human mobility during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in countries around the world. The main goal of the analysis is to empirically separate voluntary ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 199-231 )
H12, D70, I18, D80
13776 Joshua Wilde
Wei Chen
Sophie Lohmann
COVID-19 and the Future of US Fertility: What Can We Learn from Google?
We use data from Google Trends to predict the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future births in the United States. First, we show that periods of above-normal search volume for Google keywords ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2024, 50 (S1), 421-446 )
J11, J13, I10, C53
13774 Wolfgang Frimmel
Martin Halla
Jörg Paetzold
Julia Schmieder
Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers
We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation ...
(published online in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023)
J14, J22, I11, I18, R23
13773 Charles G. Ackah
Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley
Cecília Hornok
Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the ...
(published as 'Africa’s Businesswomen – Underfunded or Underperforming?' in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62 (3), 1051-1074)
D22, F14, J16
13771 Charlotte Hvidman
Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Sřren Albeck Nielsen
Michael Rosholm
An Intensive, School-Based Learning Camp Targeting Academic and Non-Cognitive Skills Evaluated in a Randomized Trial
We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school, using a stratified cluster randomized trial ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 88, 102535)
I21, C21, D91, I28
13770 Ozkan Eren
Michael F. Lovenheim
Naci Mocan
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy
This paper presents the first analysis in the literature of the effect of test-based grade retention on adult criminal convictions. We exploit math and English test cutoffs for promotion to ninth ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 361 - 395)
I2, K4
13769 Naci Mocan
Han Yu
Can Superstition Create a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? School Outcomes of Dragon Children of China
In Chinese culture, those who are born in the year of the Dragon are believed to be destined for good fortune and greatness, and parents prefer their kids to be born in a Dragon year. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (4), 485–534)
I2, J1, Z1
13768 Zuzanna Kowalik
Piotr Lewandowski
The Gender Gap in Aversion to COVID-19 Exposure: Evidence from Professional Tennis
We study the gender differences in aversion to COVID-19 exposure. We use a natural experiment of the 2020 US Open, which was organized in the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases and ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (3), e0249045. )
J16, I12, J44
13767 Christian P. R. Schmid
Nicolas Schreiner
Alois Stutzer
Transfer Payment Systems and Financial Distress: Insights from Health Insurance Premium Subsidies
How should payment systems of means-tested benefits be designed to improve the financial situation of needy recipients most effectively? We study this question in the context of mandatory health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 1829-1858)
D14, G52, H24, I13
13766 Marie Bjřrneby
Simen Markussen
Knut Rřed
Does the Wealth Tax Kill Jobs?
Fueled by increasing inequality and rising fiscal deficits, the interest in wealth taxation has increased over the last years, both in the public debate and in academia. Yet, knowledge about the ...
(revised version published as 'An Imperfect Wealth Tax and Employment in Closely Held Firms' in: Economica, 2023, 90 (358), 557-583.)
H21, J23, G11
13764 Judit Albiol Sanchez
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Mercedes Teruel
The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries
Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being skill-mismatched in comparison with salaried employees. The ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 957-977)
L26, J24, B23
13763 Dripto Bakshi
Indraneel Dasgupta
A Subscription vs. Appropriation Framework for Natural Resource Conflicts
We examine how cross-community cost or benefit spillovers, arising from the consumption of group-specific public goods, affect both inter-group conflicts over the appropriation of such goods and ...
(published in: A. Markandya and D. Rübbelke (eds.), Climate and Development; World Scientific, 2021)
D72, D74, O10, O20
13762 Claudia Hupkau
Barbara Petrongolo
Work, Care and Gender during the COVID-19 Crisis
We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies,2020, 41 (3), 623 - 652)
J13, J16, J22, J31
13761 Oded Stark
Grzegorz Kosiorowski
An Adverse Social Welfare Effect of Quadruply Gainful Trade
Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We ...
(published in: East Asian Economic Review, 2020, 24 (3), 207-235)
D31, D63, F10, F15, R12
13759 Patricia Cortes
Jessica Pan
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1359 - 1409)
J16, J24, J31, J13
13758 Helena Hernandez-Pizarro
Catia Nicodemo
Guillem López Casasnovas
Discontinuous System of Allowances: The Response of Prosocial Health-Care Professionals
This paper examines the unintended strategic effects of non-linear incentives in public policies. A system of health care subsidies structured in discrete intervals may lead to strategic behaviour. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 190, 104248)
D63, D82, D61, H510, I380
13757 Catia Nicodemo
Samira Barzin
Daniel S. Lasserson
Francesco Moscone
Stuart Redding
Mujaheed Shaikh
Nicolň Cavalli
Measuring Geographical Disparities in England at the Time of COVID-19: Results Using a Composite Indicator of Population Vulnerability
Objectives – The growth of COVID-19 infections in England raises questions about system vulnerability. Several factors that vary across geographies, such as age, existing disease prevalence, ...
(published in: BMJ open, 2020,10, e039749.)
C55, J61, J28, I1
13755 Anthony Edo
Lionel Ragot
Hillel Rapoport
Sulin Sardoschau
Andreas Steinmayr
Arthur Sweetman
An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries
The share of the foreign-born in OECD countries is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1365-1403. .)
F22, J15, J61
13754 Barbara Biasi
Heather Sarsons
Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (1), 215 - 266)
J31, J71, J45
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