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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
13651 Hai-Anh H Dang
Trong-Anh Trinh
The Beneficial Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution: Evidence from Vietnam
Little evidence currently exists on the effects of COVID-19 on air quality in poorer countries, where most air pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study that examines the pandemic's ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (10), 1917-1933.)
D00, H00, O13, Q50
13650 Francine D. Blau
Josefine Koebe
Pamela Meyerhofer
Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the ...
(published in: Business Economics, 2021, 56, 168–178 )
J15, J16, J21
13649 Wim Naudé
Martin Cameron
Failing to Pull Together: South Africa's Troubled Response to COVID-19
When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown ...
(published in: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 2021, 15 (2), 219 - 235)
H12, I15, I18, O55
13648 Amairisa Kouki
Robert M. Sauer
Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty
Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary ...
(published as 'Beyond the “Comforts” of work from home: Child health and the female wage penalty' in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104527 (without R. Sauer))
C26, J13, J22, I19
13647 Shuo Chen
Bin Xie
Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U.S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 94, 101615)
J15, N31, K37
13645 Alberto Urtasun
Marta Martínez Matute
Uncertainty and Firms' Labour Decisions. Evidence from European Countries
Uncertainty affects employers' decisions on labour workforce, as it does on capital. We exploit differences on how firms adjust their labour work-force when uncertainty increases. Using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2022, 25 (1), 220 - 241)
D22, D81, J21, J23
13644 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Hitting Where It Hurts Most: COVID-19 and Low-Income Urban College Students
Using administrative data merged with a rich student survey collected during the summer of 2020, we document the immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 87, 102233)
I24, I23, I22
13643 Matias Cortes
Eliza Forsythe
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we show that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a loss of aggregate real labor earnings of more than $250 billion between March and July 2020. By ...
(published as 'Distributional Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21 (2), 325-349.)
J31, J65, J68, H53, H84, E24
13641 George Psacharopoulos
Victoria Collis
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Emiliana Vegas
Lost Wages: The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's ...
(published as 'The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World' in: Comparative Education Review, 2021, 65, 271–287)
I26, I20, J24
13640 Kailing Shen
Bledi Taska
Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
We propose a reweighting-estimation-transformation (RWET) approach to estimate the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 153-171)
J21, J63, C55
13638 Teresa Molina
Ivan Rivadeneyra
The Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador
This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 196, 104383)
I23, I24, I28, O15
13637 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Daniele Checchi
Lorenzo Rocco
Where Do I Stand? Assessing Researchers' Beliefs about Their Relative Productivity
In 2017 the Italian government established the Fund to Finance Basic Research Activities – FFABR – with the purpose of assigning a 3,000 euros research grant to the most productive applicants ...
(published as 'Where do I stand? Assessing researchers' beliefs about their productivity' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 185, 61-80)
I28
13636 Ylenia Brilli
Claudio Lucifora
Alessia Russo
Marco Tonello
Influenza Vaccination Behavior and Media Reporting of Adverse Events
We study the role of media reporting of alleged adverse effects of influenza vaccination on adults' (aged 50 or more) decisions to vaccinate against the flu. We exploit the diffusion of news linking ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2020, 124 (112), 1403 - 1411)
I12, I18, J10
13635 Danula K. Gamage
Georgios Kavetsos
Sushanta Mallick
Almudena Sevilla
Pay Transparency Initiative and Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Research-Intensive Universities in the UK
Given the ongoing efforts to close the gender pay gap across different sectors in the UK, this paper investigates the impact of a pay transparency initiative on the gender pay gap in the university ...
(published in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (2), 293-318)
I23, J16, J31, J44
13634 Moussa Blimpo
Todd Pugatch
Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102583)
I25, I26, I28, J24, O12, O15
13633 Terry Gregory
Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
This paper provides new insights into how wages and employment adjust to a minimum wage policy along different wage and skill groups. For this, we exploit a quasi-experimental setting in the 1990s, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104582)
J31, J38, J24, C21, J23
13632 Thomas J. Kniesner
Ryan Sullivan
The Forgotten Numbers: A Closer Look at COVID-19 Non-Fatal Valuations
Our research estimates Covid-19 non-fatal economic losses in the U.S. using detailed data on cumulative cases and hospitalizations from January 22, 2020 to July 27, 2020, from the Centers for Disease ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Special Issue: Valuation and Risk Perceptions of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, 61(2), 155-176)
I18, J17, J28, H51
13631 Gilbert Mbara
Joanna Tyrowicz
Ryszard Kokoszczynski
Striking a Balance: Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model where employers may avoid making social security contributions by offering some workers "secondary contracts". When calibrated using aggregate ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2020, 66, 103245)
H2, H26, H3, E13, E26, J81
13630 Shelly Lundberg
Educational Gender Gaps
Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education—underachievement in school by boys and low rates of participation in STEM studies by girls. Recent economics research has shown ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2020, 87 (2), 416-439)
I20, J12, J16
13628 Mark Kassis
Sascha L. Schmidt
Dominik Schreyer
Matthias Sutter
Psychological Pressure and the Right to Determine the Moves in Dynamic Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
In this paper, we show that the right to determine the sequence of moves in a dynamic team tournament improves the chances of winning the contest. Because studying dynamic team tournaments – like R&D ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 278-287.)
C93, D00, D81, D91, Z20
13627 Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün
Murat Güray Kirdar
Berna Tuncay
The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health system was completely broken. Several studies report that Syrian refugees faced ...
(published as 'The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on Native Population Mortality' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102534)
H51, I18, J13, J15, O15
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