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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
13673 Wolter Hassink
Guyonne Kalb
Jordy Meekes
The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the COVID-19 Outbreak: Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown
We explore the impact of COVID-19 hotspots and regional lockdowns on the Dutch labour market. Using weekly administrative panel microdata for 50 per cent of Dutch employees until the end of March ...
(published as "Regional coronavirus hotspots during the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands" in: De Economist, 2021, 169 (2), 127-140)
I15, I18, J20, J30, J64
13672 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Luca Stella
Tianyi Wang
Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102205)
I10, J0
13671 Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia Terskaya
Angie Upegui
Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI along the Life-Cycle: Evidence from Several US Cohorts
We use data from the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how the the effect of individuals' genetic predisposition to ...
(revised version published in: PLoS ONE, 2020, 15 (9), e0239067.)
I1, I14
13669 Alex Bryson
Lorenzo Corsini
Irene Martelli
Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy
Italy's secondary school system has faced funding constraints for many years which limits availability of new permanent job slots for teachers. When permanent posts do arise they are allocated mostly ...
(published in: Labour, 2022, 36 (4), 409 - 423)
J41, J44, J45, J48, J62, M51, M55
13668 Randolph Luca Bruno
Nauro F. Campos
Saul Estrin
The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what ...
(published in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2021, 59 (4), 802-821)
F21, F36, O52
13667 Wim Naudé
Werner Liebregts
Digital Entrepreneurship Research: A Concise Introduction
In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what one could now call digital economies. The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the ...
(published as 'Digital Entrepreneurship' in: Liebregts, W., van den Heuvel, WJ., van den Born, A. (eds), Data Science for Entrepreneurship. Classroom Companion: Business. Springer, Cham, 2023, 279-303)
L26, D21, M13, O33
13665 Charlotte Bartels
Simon Jäger
Natalie Obergruber
Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (664), 3137–3172)
D3, O1, O4
13664 Ritwik Banerjee
Priyama Majumdar
Exponential Growth Bias in the Prediction of COVID-19 Spread and Economic Expectation
Exponential growth bias (EGB) is the pervasive tendency of people to perceive a growth process as linear when, in fact, it is exponential. In this paper, we document that people exhibit EGB when ...
(published in: Economicy, 2023, 90 (358), 653-689)
I12, I18, C91, D84
13663 Chad Sparber
Madeline Zavodny
Immigration, Working Conditions, and Compensating Differentials
The large inflow of less-educated immigrants that the United States has received in recent decades can worsen or improve U.S. natives' labor market opportunities. Although there is a general ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75, 1054-1081)
J81, J31, F22
13662 Oded Stark
An Economics-Based Rationale for the Rawlsian Social Welfare Program
We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce efficiently the social stress of a population, as measured by the aggregate relative deprivation of the population, ...
(published in: Rodríguez, J.G. and Bishop, J.A. (eds), Inequality, Redistribution and Mobility, Bingley, 2020, 179-186)
A13, D04, D63, H53, P51
13661 Alessandro Castagnetti
Eugenio Proto
Anger and Strategic Behavior: A Level-k Analysis
Anger is an important driver in shaping economic activities, particularly in instances that involve strategic interactions between individuals. Here we test whether anger impairs the capacity to ...
(published as 'Anger impairs strategic behavior: A Beauty-Contest based analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 213, 128-141)
C92, D90, D91
13659 Viola Angelini
Marco Bertoni
Guglielmo Weber
The Long-Term Consequences of a Golden Nest
We study the role played by the standard of living during childhood on nest leaving. Using data from SHARE, we show empirically that individuals who grew up in a golden nest leave the parental home ...
(published in: Demography, 2022, 59 (3), 857-875)
D15, J12, J13, J62
13657 Alessio Gaggero
Denni Tommasi
Time of Day, Cognitive Tasks and Efficiency Gains
The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and welfare. We study the performance of University students taking at most one exam per ...
(published as 'Time of Day and High-Stake Cognitive Assessments' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (652), 1407–1429)
I20, I24, J22, J24
13656 Charles Bellemare
Marion Goussé
Guy Lacroix
Steeve Marchand
Video Resumes and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We evaluate the efficiency of video resumes using a large scale field experiment. We randomly sent applications to 2021 private firms posting vacancies across the province of Québec (Canada). A ...
(published as 'Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Video Résumé Field Experiment' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (4), 452-476)
J71, J68
13655 Edward W. Pinchbeck
Sefi Roth
Nikodem Szumilo
Enrico Vanino
The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market
This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air pollutant which is the largest source of exposure to natural ionising radiation and ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023, 10 (6), 1439–1473 )
R21, R28, Q53, H23
13654 Mehmet Ugur
Marco Vivarelli
Innovation, Firm Survival and Productivity: The State of the Art
We review the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical findings of the literature that investigates the effects of innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30, 433-467)
O30, O33
13653 Niaz Asadullah
Elisabetta De Cao
Fathema Zhura Khatoon
Zahra Siddique
Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments
We elicit adolescent girl's attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34: 367-400)
I15, O10, C13, C83
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