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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
13752 Kerstin F. Hansen
Alois Stutzer
Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being across Countries
Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 204, 600-617)
D1, I3, J6
13751 Hessel Oosterbeek
Simon ter Meulen
Bas van der Klaauw
Long-Term Effects of School-Starting-Age Rules
To study the long-term effects of school-starting-age rules in a setting with early ability tracking, we exploit the birth month threshold used in the Netherlands. We find that students born just ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84,102144 )
I21, I24, I26
13750 Paul Bisschop
Bas ter Weel
Jelle Zwetsloot
Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168 (4), 577-598)
J15, J2, J70
13748 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Using the 2005-2014 waves of the American Community Survey –a period characterized by the rapid expansion of interior immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the ...
(published as 'Immigration policy and fertility: Evidence from undocumented migrants in the U.S' ´in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 189, 274 - 297)
J13, J15, K37
13747 Erling Barth
Alex Bryson
Harald Dale-Olsen
Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?
Using administrative linked employer-employee data for Norway we estimate the impact of changes in tax subsidies for union membership on individuals' membership probabilities. Increased subsidisation ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 229, 106855)
J01, J08, J50, J51
13746 Sebastian Fehrler
Volker Hahn
Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks
Leaks are pervasive in politics. Hence, many committees that nominally operate under secrecy de facto operate under the threat that information might be passed on to outsiders. We study theoretically ...
(published in: Journal of Politics, 2023, 85 (3), 1107–1122)
C92, D71, D82, J45
13743 Dany Bahar
Ana Maria Ibanez
Sandra V. Rozo
Give Me Your Tired and Your Poor: Impact of a Large-Scale Amnesty Program for Undocumented Refugees
Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151, 102652)
F22, O15, R23
13742 Kadir Atalay
Rebecca Edwards
Stefanie Schurer
David Ubilava
Lives Saved during Economic Downturns: Evidence from Australia
Worldwide, countries have been restricting work and social activities to counter an emerging public health crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. These measures have caused dramatic increases in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (10), 2452 - 2467)
I12, E32, E24
13741 Olga B. Stoddard
Christopher F. Karpowitz
Jessica Preece
Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics
Policy interventions to increase women's presence in the workforce and leadership positions vary in their intensity, with some including a lone or token woman and others setting higher quotas. ...
(updated version available as DP 16625)
J16
13737 Charles Gottlieb
Jan Grobovsek
Markus Poschke
Fernando Saltiel
Working from Home in Developing Countries
We examine workers' ability to work from home, as well as their propensity to actually work from home in developing countries. We use worker-level STEP data covering the task content of jobs to ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 133, 103679)
J21, J22, O1
13735 Nick Obradovich
Ömer Özak
Ignacio Martín
Edmond Awad
Manuel Cebrián
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Iyad Rahwan
Ángel Cuevas
Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Society - Interface, 2022, 190, 1920220085)
C80, F1, J1, O10, R10, Z10
13733 Caroline Wehner
Andries de Grip
Harald Pfeifer
Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186)
J23, D91, M51
13732 Todd Pugatch
Nicholas Wilson
Nudging Demand for Academic Support Services: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Higher Education
More than two of every five students who enroll in college fail to graduate within six years. Prior research has identified ineffective study habits as a major barrier to success. We conducted a ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (5), 1637-1682)
A22, D91, I23, M31
13728 Zhiming Cheng
Ben Zhe Wang
Zhou Jiang
Lucy Taksa
Massimiliano Tani
English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having ...
(published online as 'English skills and early labour market integration: Evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia' in: International Migration, 19 June 2021, )
F22, I26, J24, J61
13725 Fabrizio Mazzonna
Franco Peracchi
Are Older People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline? Misperception and Financial Decision Making
We investigate whether older people correctly perceive their own cognitive decline, and the potential financial consequences of misperception. First, we document the fact that older people tend to ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 1793-1830)
J14, J24, C23
13724 Luciana C. Fiorini
Michael Jetter
Christopher F. Parmeter
Christopher Parsons
The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany
Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents ...
(revised version published as 'Community Size and Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-Second World War Baden-Württemberg' in: British Journal of Political Science, 2024, 54 (3), 573 - 594)
D61, D72, H11, N44
13723 Ruben C. Arslan
Martin Brümmer
Thomas Dohmen
Johanna Drewelies
Ralph Hertwig
Gert G. Wagner
How People Know Their Risk Preference
People differ in their willingness to take risks. Recent work found that revealed preference tasks (e.g., laboratory lotteries)—a dominant class of measures—are outperformed by survey-based stated ...
(published in: Scientific Reports, 2020, 10, 15365)
D80, D81, D91, D01
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