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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
13595 Vincenzo Scoppa
Social Pressure in the Stadiums: Do Agents Change Behavior without Crowd Support?
Social pressure may have relevant consequences in many contexts but it is hard to evaluate it empirically. In this paper we exploit a natural experiment in soccer to provide clear evidence of its ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021, 82, 102344.)
D91, M50, L83, Z2
13593 Steven J. Haider
Melvin Stephens Jr.
Correcting for Misclassied Binary Regressors Using Instrumental Variables
Estimators that exploit an instrumental variable to correct for misclassification in a binary regressor typically assume that the misclassification rates are invariant across all values of the ...
(published online in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 21 Oct 2024 )
C18, C26
13591 Natalia Kyui
Natalia Radchenko
The Changing Composition of Academic Majors and Wage Dynamics
We can observe several common trends related to higher education in many countries. First, there is expansion of higher education with a shift towards majoring in the social sciences. And second, ...
(published as 'The changing composition of academic majors and wage dynamics: Beyond mean returns' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 358-381)
I2, J31
13589 Shinsuke Asakawa
Masaru Sasaki
Can Childcare Benefits Increase Maternal Employment? Evidence from Childcare Benefits Policy in Japan
We estimate the policy impacts of the resumption of income thresholds for childcare benefits (CB) policy in April 2012 on female labor market participation, expenditure on childcare services, and ...
(published as 'Can child benefit reductions increase maternal employment? Evidence from Japan' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2022, 66, 101231)
J16, J21, J38
13588 Massimiliano Tani
Zhiming Cheng
Silvia Mendolia
Alfredo R. Paloyo
David Savage
Working Parents, Financial Insecurity, and Child-Care: Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy measures to control its spread – lockdowns, physical distancing, and social isolation – has coincided with the deterioration of people's mental well-being. We ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 123 - 144 .)
I14, J16
13587 Marina Della Giusta
Simonetta Longhi
Stung by Pension Reforms: The Impact of a Change in State Pension Age on Mental Health and Life Satisfaction of Affected Women
Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We use panel data and a difference-in-difference approach to comprehensively analyse ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72,102049)
I31, J22, J26
13585 Tim Callan
Karina Doorley
Alyvia McTague
Top Incomes in Ireland: Reconciling Evidence from Tax Records and Household Survey Data
There are two main sources of data on income distribution. Household based surveys report mainly on inequality in equivalised household level disposable income. Top income shares, on the other hand, ...
(published in: Journal of the Dublin Statistical Society, 2021, 50, 1-15)
D31
13583 Andrej Gill
Matthias Heinz
Heiner Schumacher
Matthias Sutter
Trustworthiness in the Financial Industry
The financial industry has been struggling with widespread misconduct and public mistrust. Here we argue that the lack of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects ...
(revised version published as 'Social Preferences of Young Professionals and the Financial Industry' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (7), 3905-3919. )
C91, G20, M51
13581 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
The Effect of Employer Enrollment in E-Verify on Low-Skilled U.S. Workers
U.S. employers can check whether the workers they hire are legally eligible for employment using E-Verify, a free electronic system run by the federal government. We use confidential data from the ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28, 954-957)
J15, J31, J61
13578 Alex Bryson
Peter Dolton
J. James Reade
Dominik Schreyer
Carl Singleton
Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical ...
(published as 'Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19' in: Economic Letters , 2021, 198, 109664)
C90, D91, L83, Z20
13577 Luis-Felipe López-Calva
Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
Within-Country Poverty Convergence: Evidence from Mexico
Trends in aggregate growth and poverty reduction hide a multiplicity of development processes at the local level. The analysis reported in this paper exploits a unique panel dataset of poverty maps ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, 2547–2586)
I32, O47, O54, R11
13576 Michael Oberfichtner
Claus Schnabel
Marina Töpfer
Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 196, 109509)
J31, J50
13575 Jinwook Shin
Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Economic Impact of Targeted Government Responses to COVID-19: Evidence from the First Large-scale Cluster in Seoul
We estimate the economic impact of South Korea's targeted responses to the first large-scale COVID-19 cluster in Seoul. We find that foot traffic and retail sales decreased only within a 300 meter ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 192, 199-221)
E2, H12, I12, I18
13574 Yuan Tian
Maria Esther Caballero
Brian K. Kovak
Social Learning along International Migrant Networks
We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 103-121)
J61, F22, I12, D83
13573 Marta Angelici
Daniela Del Boca
Noemi Oggero
Paola Profeta
Mariacristina Rossi
Claudia Villosio
Pension Information and Women's Awareness
We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100396 )
H31, G51, J22
13572 Sami H. Miaari
Nabil Khattab
Maha Sabbah-Karkabi
Obstacles to Labour Market Participation among Arab Women in Israel
This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among ...
(published in: International Labour Review 2023, 162 (4), 587 - 614)
J01, J15, J13, J18, J26
13570 Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Natalia Nollenberger
Can't Leave You Now! Intimate Partner Violence under Forced Coexistence and Economic Uncertainty
With the COVID-19 outbreak imposing stay at home and social distancing policies, warnings about the impact of lockdown and its economic consequences on domestic violence has surged. This paper ...
(published as 'Intimate partner violence under forced cohabitation and economic stress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 194, 104350)
J12, I18
13569 Osea Giuntella
Kelly Hyde
Silvia Saccardo
Sally Sadoff
Lifestyle and Mental Health Disruptions during COVID-19
COVID-19 has affected daily life in unprecedented ways. Using a longitudinal dataset linking biometric and survey data from several cohorts of young adults before and during the pandemic (N=685), we ...
(published in: PNAS, 2021, 118 (9), 2016632118)
I10
13568 Almut Balleer
Sebastian Link
Manuel Menkhoff
Peter Zorn
Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand ...
(published as 'Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment Heterogeneity during the Covid-19 Pandemic' in: International Journal of Central Banking, 2024, 20 (1), 93-158, 2024.)
E31, E32, H50, E60, D22
13567 Moon Jung Kim
Soohyung Lee
Can Stimulus Checks Boost an Economy under COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea
Various countries have implemented transfer programs to individuals since the Covid-19 outbreaks. However, the extent to which such transfers alleviate economic recessions is unclear. This paper ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 12)
H2, H6, D3, D6, L1
13566 Matthias Sutter
Michael Weyland
Anna Untertrifaller
Manuel Froitzheim
Financial Literacy, Risk and Time Preferences: Results from a Randomized Educational Intervention
We present the results of a randomized intervention in schools to study how teaching financial literacy affects risk and time preferences of adolescents. Following more than 600 adolescents, aged 16 ...
(an updated version of this paper is available as IZA DP No. 16102)
C93, D14, I21
13565 Marco Bertoni
Enrico Rettore
Lorenzo Rocco
If (My) 6 Was (Your) 9: Reporting Heterogeneity in Student Evaluations of Teaching
Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) are subjective measures of student satisfaction that are often used to assess teaching quality. In this paper, we show that heterogeneity in students' reporting ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102567)
I23, I28, D63
13564 Jörgen Hansen
Nicolai Kristensen
Henrik Lindegaard Andersen
The Bottom 20%: Early Career Paths of Adolescents with Low GPA
Across nations, large proportions of younger birth cohorts obtain no professional qualications. Using a structural dynamic approach, we analyze policies targeted adolescents who leave grade nine with ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (4), 810–839)
I2, I38
13561 Alena Bicakova
Matias Cortes
Jacopo Mazza
Caught in the Cycle: Economic Conditions at Enrollment and Labor Market Outcomes of College Graduates
We find robust evidence that cohorts of male graduates who start college during worse economic times earn higher average wages than those who start during better times. This gap is not explained by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2383-2412.)
I23, J24, J31, E32
13557 Matias Cortes
Jeanne Tschopp
Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of firms. In this paper, we show that these two ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (2), 320-354)
J31, L11, E24
13556 Mathias Huebener
Sevrin Waights
C. Katharina Spieß
Nico A. Siegel
Gert G. Wagner
Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 81, 91 - 120)
D1, H12, H75, I2
13555 Marta Martínez Matute
Ernesto Villanueva
Task Specialization and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from PIAAC and IALS
We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 59 - 92)
J24, J31, I20
13553 Matthew Gibson
Jamie Mullins
Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains
Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a census of residential property transactions in New York City 2003-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the ...
(published as 'Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (6), 1069-1111.)
Q54, Q58, R30, G22
13551 Daniel S. Hamermesh
H. Gregg Lewis: Perhaps the Father of Modern Labor Economics
H. Gregg Lewis did fundamental research outlining the economic effects of trade unions and considering how to measure them carefully. He also laid out the theory of the supply and demand for labor in ...
(published in: Robert A. Cord (ed.), The Palgrave Companion to Chicago Economics, Vol. II, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 574-594, )
B21, C29
13550 M. Shahe Emran
Francisco H. G. Ferreira
Yajing Jiang
Yan Sun
Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy: Evidence from China and India
This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 743 - 773)
O12, J62
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