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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
13626 Feicheng Wang
Krisztina Kis-Katos
Minghai Zhou
Trade Liberalization and the Gender Employment Gap in China
This paper investigates the impact of import liberalization induced labor demand shocks on male and female employment in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, ...
(published as 'Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1830-1864)
F13, F14, F16, F66, J16
13625 David E. Bloom
Michael Kuhn
Klaus Prettner
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
We discuss and review literature on the macroeconomic effects of epidemics and pandemics since the late 20th century. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2022, 60 (1), 85–131)
D15, D58, E10, E20, I12, I15, I18, I31, O40
13624 Patrick Kampkötter
Lea Petters
Dirk Sliwka
Employee Identification and Wages: On the Economics of 'Affective Commitment'
We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 608-626)
J31, M50, M52
13623 Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Radost Holler
Lena Janys
Bettina M. Siflinger
Christian Zimpelmann
Labour Supply during Lockdown and a "New Normal": The Case of the Netherlands
We document the evolution of hours of work using monthly data from February to June 2020. During this period, the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, enacted a lockdown ...
(revised version (IZA DP 14382) published as 'Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 73, 102055)
J2, H3
13622 Sandra Goff
John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
Alex Reents
Patrick Wade
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Government- and Market-Attitudes
We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on college students' government- and market-attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. ...
(published as 'Support for bigger government: The principle-implementation gap and COVID-19' in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2023, 41 (2), 243-261)
H1, H5, P1
13621 Manuela Angelucci
Daniel M Bennett
Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi
Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is revealed over time. Sexual safety is an important but hidden partner attribute, ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (5), 2119–2148, )
J12, J13, I15, I18
13619 Michalis Drouvelis
Jennifer Gerson
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Yohanes E. Riyanto
Large Losses from Little Lies: Randomly Assigned Opportunity to Misrepresent Substantially Lowers Later Cooperation and Worsens Income Inequality
Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly ...
(publishled in: PLoS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0282335. )
C92, D91
13618 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Sarah C. Dahmann
Anne C. Gielen
The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities
We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102644)
J68, J64, J62
13616 Meliyanni Johar
David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Peter Siminski
Olena Stavrunova
The Economic Impacts of Direct Natural Disaster Exposure
This paper studies how having your home damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster impacts on economic and financial outcomes. Our context is Australia, where disasters are frequent. Estimates of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 26-39)
Q54, J21, I31, G50, C23, H84
13615 Huw Beynon
Helen Blakely
Alex Bryson
Rhys Davies
The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain
Spatial variance in union membership has been attributed to the favourable attitudes that persist in areas with an historical legacy of trade unionism. Within the UK, villages and towns located in ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (4), 1131-1152 )
J50, J51
13613 Martin Biewen
Philipp Kugler
Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with an Application to Angrist and Evans (1998)
We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software ...
(shorter version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 204, 109893)
C26, C55, J22, J13, C14
13612 Michael A. Clemens
Mariapia Mendola
Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox
How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103359)
F22, J61, O15
13611 Luna Bellani
Anselm Hager
Stephan Ernst Maurer
The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-Making
This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 250 - 283)
D72, J62, N31, H4
13609 Luke Chicoine
Emily Lyons
Alexia Sahue
The Impact of HIV/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Evidence
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (6), 842-852)
I15, I25, O55
13608 Hani Mansour
Pamela Medina
Andrea Velasquez
Import Competition and Gender Differences in Labor Reallocation
We study gender differences in the labor market reallocation of Peruvian workers in response to trade liberalization. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102149.)
E24, F14, J16, J71
13607 Paola Giuliano
Gender and Culture
This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force participation, and performance in mathematics, amongst many others) show ...
(publilshed in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4); 944–961)
A13, J16, Z1
13606 Thomas Gries
Wim Naudé
Artificial Intelligence, Income Distribution and Economic Growth
The economic impact of Articial Intelligence (AI) is studied using a (semi) endogenous growth model with two novel features. First, the task approach from labor economics is reformulated and ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
O47, O33, J24, E21, E25
13602 Deniz Gevrek
Z. Eylem Gevrek
Cahit Guven
The Relationship between Early-Life Conditions in the Home Country and Adult Outcomes among Child Immigrants in the United States
We examine the impact of health and economic conditions at birth on the adult outcomes of child immigrants using the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Our sample consists of children from 39 ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 45, 101069)
I14, J13, J15, J28
13601 Dorothée Averkamp
Christian Bredemeier
Falko Juessen
Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective
We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (1), 3-37)
J31, J16, J12, J71, J24
13599 Jonathan I. Gershuny
Oriel Sullivan
Almudena Sevilla
Marga Vega-Rapun
Francesca Foliano
Juana Lamote de Grignon
Teresa Harms
Pierre Walthery
A New Perspective from Time Use Research on the Effects of Lockdown on COVID-19 Behavioral Infection Risk
We present findings from the first two waves of an innovative, population-representative, UK time-use diary survey conducted both pre- and mid-lockdown, using an online diary instrument that proved ...
(published as 'A new perspective from time use research on the effects of social restrictions on COVID-19 behavioral infection risk ' in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (2), e0245551)
J10, I10
13598 Julie Buhl-Wiggers
Jason Kerwin
Juan S. Muñoz-Morales
Jeffrey A. Smith
Rebecca L. Thornton
Some Children Left Behind: Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy program in northern Uganda. The program increases test scores by 1.4 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 234 (1-2), 105256)
I25, I26
13596 Julian V. Johnsen
Hyejin Ku
Kjell G. Salvanes
Competition and Career Advancement: The Hidden Costs of Paid Leave
Does leave-taking matter for young workers' careers? If so, why? We propose the competition effect—relative leave status of workers affecting their relative standing inside the firm—as a new ...
(latest version published online as 'Competition and Career Advancement' in: Review of Economic Studies, 13 October 2024)
M51, M52, J16, J22, J24, J31
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