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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
13722 Gautam Hazarika
Sourabh Bikas Paul
India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle: Insights From the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of Calorie Purchases
Between the early 1970s and very nearly the present, Indians' per capita calorie consumption declined. This decline, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 60, 2993 - 3010)
I32, O1
13720 David W. Johnston
Claryn S. J. Kung
Michael A. Shields
Who is Resilient in a Time of Crisis? The Importance of Financial and Non-Financial Resources
We identify the individual resources that predicted psychological resilience during the COVID-19 lockdown. Using UK data, we compare psychological distress observed before COVID-19 with distress ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (12), 3051 - 3073)
I10, C2, C5
13717 Filippo Belloc
Gabriel Burdin
Fabio Landini
Corporate Hierarchies under Employee Representation
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the ...
(published as 'Corporate hierarchies and workplace voice' in: Journal of Institutional Economics, 2023, 19 (6), 729 - 746)
J51, L23, M11
13715 SangNam Ahn
Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Changes in Healthcare Utilization, Spending, and Perceived Health during COVID–19: A Longitudinal Study from Singapore
The COVID–19 pandemic has challenged the capacity of healthcare systems around the world and can potentially compromise healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using ...
(published as 'Associations of the COVID-19 pandemic with older individuals' healthcare utilization and self-reported health status: a longitudinal analysis from Singapore' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2022, 22(1), 66)
I12, I18
13714 Emilia Del Bono
Josh Kinsler
Ronni Pavan
A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
In this paper we highlight an important property of the translog production function for the identification of treatment effects in a model of latent skill formation. We show that when using a ...
(published as 'Identification of dynamic latent factor models of skill formation with translog production' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (6), 1256 - 1265)
C13, C18, I38, J13, J24
13712 Farzana Afridi
Monisankar Bishnu
Kanika Mahajan
Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization
Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in ...
(published as 'Gender and Mechanization: Evidence from Indian Agriculture' in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105 (1), 52 - 75)
J16, J23, J43, O33
13711 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Swati Sharma
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 228, 470 - 485)
Y40, Z13, J15, J24
13710 C. Justin Cook
Manisha Shah
Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), which provides up to 100 days of labor to rural laborers at the mandated minimum ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (4), 797 - 806)
O11, O38, O47
13709 Jan Bietenbeck
Jan Marcus
Felix Weinhardt
Tuition Fees and Educational Attainment
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 154, 104431)
I23, I22, I28
13708 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Urbain Thierry Yogo
Access to Finance among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Job Creation in Africa
In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2020, 55, 177 - 189)
L2, G2, D22, C1
13707 Robert W. Fairlie
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727 - 740)
J15, J16, L26
13706 Nauro F. Campos
Vera Z. Eichenauer
Jan-Egbert Sturm
Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 129, 103511)
F4, N1, N4, O4
13704 James Albrecht
Bruno Decreuse
Susan Vroman
Directed Search with Phantom Vacancies
When vacancies are filled, the ads that were posted are often not withdrawn, creating "phantom" vacancies. The existence of phantoms implies that older job listings are less likely to represent true ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (2), 837 - 869)
J60, D83
13702 Terence Chai Cheng
Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
The Impact of COVID-19 on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore
We provide novel evidence on how the COVID-19 global health and economic crisis is affecting overall life satisfaction and domain-specific satisfaction using data from a monthly longitudinal survey ...
(published as 'Life Satisfaction Changes And Adaptation In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Singapore' in: Singapore Economic Review, 2024, 69 (1), 1-34.)
E2, I12, I31
13701 Matthew Baird
Michael S. Kofoed
Trey Miller
Jennie Wenger
Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post 9/11 GI Bill
In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from widely-varying by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This policy created exogenous variation in the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1012-1039.)
I23, I28, H52, H56
13699 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Sabine Flamand
Schools' Attitudes Towards Single Parents: Experimental Evidence
Single parenthood is on the rise everywhere in the world. While previous studies show that acceptance of single-parent households is increasing, some authors point out that single-parent families are ...
(published as 'Attitudes towards single parents’ children in private and state-dependent private schools: experimental evidence' in: SERIEs, 2023, 14, 223 - 242)
I24, I29
13696 Clare Leaver
Owen Ozier
Pieter Serneels
Andrew Zeitlin
Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were ...
(published in: American Economic Review 2021, 111 (7), 2213 - 2246)
C93, I21, J45, M52, O15
13695 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Neeraj Kaushal
Ashley N. Muchow
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? County-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the ...
(published as 'Timing of social distancing policies and COVID-19 mortality: county-level evidence from the U.S.' in. Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 1445 - 1572)
I1, I10, I18
13694 Jagori Chatterjee
Joshua D. Merfeld
Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets
This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and investigates how this relationship changes when households have access to ...
(published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105624)
H53, I15, I38, O12
13693 Keith A. Bailey
James R. Spletzer
A New Measure of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Economy
We create a measure of multiple jobholding from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data. This new series shows that 7.8 percent of persons in the U.S. are multiple ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102009)
J2, J3
13692 Arthur Grimes
Stephen P. Jenkins
Florencia Tranquilli
The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2023, 24, 309 - 330)
D31, D63, I31
13689 Sandro Casal
Antonio Filippin
The Effect of Observing Multiple Private Information Outcomes on the Inclination to Cheat
This paper investigates experimentally how the inclination to cheat changes when agents report the result of multiple realizations of a (private information) stochastic event rather than a single ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (2), 543 - 562)
C81, C91, D82
13687 Joan Costa-Font
Mario Gyori
The Weight of Patriarchy? Gender Obesity Gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
The worldwide obesity epidemic has impacted women more heavily than men. These gender-based differences are particularly pronounced in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where gender ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 220, 266, 113353)
I18, J16
13686 David L. Dickinson
David M. McEvoy
Further from the Truth: The Impact of In-Person, Online, and mTurk on Dishonest Behavior
Recent policies require some interactions previously conducted in close social proximity (e.g., school, workplace) to take place remotely, which motivates our investigation of how in-person versus ...
(revised version published as 'Further from the truth: The impact of moving from in-person to online settings on dishonest behavior' in: Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics , 2021, 90, 101649)
C91, D90
13685 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Alexandrina P. Stoyanova
Is There a Link between BMI and Adolescents' Educational Choices and Expectations?
One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of ...
(published as 'The relationship between overweight and education revisited: a test of the selection hypothesis based on adolescents' educational aspirations' in: Public Health, 2023, 224, 237 - 243)
I24, I29
13684 Nicolas Herault
Ha Vu
Roger Wilkins
The Effect of Job Search Requirements on Welfare Receipt
Many countries impose job search requirements on unemployment benefit recipients. Existing studies have evaluated only incremental changes to requirements. Australian reforms in 1995 saw groups of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 635 - 657)
H31, D10, J65
13683 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Shoshana Grossbard
Are COVID Fatalities in the US Higher Than in the EU, and If So, Why?
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 307 - 326)
I18, J1, J18
13680 Corrado Giulietti
Michael Vlassopoulos
Yves Zenou
Peers, Gender, and Long-Term Depression
This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 144, 104084, 2022)
I12, Z13
13678 Benjamin Lochner
Christian Merkl
Heiko Stüber
Nicole Gürtzgen
Recruiting Intensity and Hiring Practices: Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Evidence
Using the German IAB Job Vacancy Survey, we look into the black box of recruiting intensity and hiring practices from the employers' perspective. Our paper evaluates three important channels for ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101939)
E24, J63
13677 Gianmarco Daniele
Sulagna Mookerjee
Denni Tommasi
Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety: A Field Study in Urban India
The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (3), 563-579)
O12, O17
13676 Benjamin Elsner
Jeff Concannon
Immigration and Redistribution
One of the fundamental questions in the social sciences is whether modern welfare states can be sustained as countries welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between ...
(published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.):World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, 2024, 5-54 )
F22, H2, H4
13675 Charlotte Bartels
Dirk Neumann
Redistribution and Insurance in Welfare States around the World
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021, 123 (4), 1116 - 1158)
D31, D63, H53, H55, I38
13674 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Libertad González
Political Instability and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the 1981 Military Coup in Spain
We study the effect of exposure to political instability in-utero on health at birth. We exploit the coup d'état that took place in Spain on February 23, 1981. Although short-lived and unsuccessful, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (2), 328-341)
I12, J13
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