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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13507 Gordon B. Dahl
Christina Felfe
Paul Frijters
Helmut Rainer
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2491 - 2528)
Z18, J15, J16
13506 Ian Burn
Patrick Button
Luis Munguia Corella
David Neumark
Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring
We study the relationships between ageist stereotypes – as reflected in the language used in job ads – and age discrimination in hiring, exploiting the text of job ads and differences in callbacks to ...
(published as 'Does Ageist Language in Job Ads Predict Age Discrimination in Hiring?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (3), 613-667. )
J14, J7
13504 Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 424-441)
J22, J29, M54, M55
13503 Eugenio Proto
Climent Quintana-Domeque
COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID-19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ...
(revised version published as 'COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK' in: PLOS ONE, 2021, 16 (1), e0244419)
I1, J1, J15
13501 Sergio Olivieri
Francesc Ortega
Ana Rivadeneira
Eliana Carranza
The Labor Market Effects of Venezuelan Migration in Ecuador
As of 2019, more than 1.2 million Venezuelans have passed through Ecuador and over 400,000 settled in, which amounts to almost 3% of Ecuador's population. This paper analyzes the location choices of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (4), 713 - 729)
O15, J61, D31
13500 Alison Andrew
Sarah Cattan
Monica Costa Dias
Christine Farquharson
Lucy Kraftman
Sonya Krutikova
Angus Phimister
Almudena Sevilla
The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work under Lockdown
COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 325 - 340)
J21, J22, J24, J33, J63
13498 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Oke Onemu
Joeri Sol
Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain of 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives, team social cohesion, and team performance. Theory predicts that the effect of ...
(published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (1), 230-256)
C93, M52
13497 Daniel Keum
Stephan Meier
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Expanding unemployment insurance (UI) not only reduces the burden for the unemployed but also the moral cost of layoffs to firms and their managers. Using staggered expansions of UI across US states, ...
(published as 'License to Layoff? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs' in: Organization Science, 2023, 35 (3), 994-1014 )
D04, D91, J65
13496 Julia Schmieder
Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment
Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72,102048)
J13, J16, J22, J46
13495 Christopher Jepsen
Lisa Jepsen
Convergence Over Time or Not? U.S. Wages by Sexual Orientation, 2001-2018
An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent ...
(published in. Labour Economics, 2022, 74, 102086)
D10, J10, J12, J70
13493 Paul Anand
Heidi Allen
Robert Ferrer
Natalie Gold
Rolando Gonzales Martinez
Evan Kontopantelis
Melanie Krause
Francis Vergunst
Work-Related and Personal Predictors of COVID-19 Transmission
The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of ...
(published as 'Work-related and personal predictors of COVID-19 transmission: evidence from the UK and USA' in: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2022, 76, 152 - 157 )
I1, I12, I14, I18
13492 Caterina Alacevich
Nicolň Cavalli
Osea Giuntella
Raffaele Lagravinese
Francesco Moscone
Catia Nicodemo
Exploring the Relationship between Care Homes and Excess Deaths in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Italy
We explore the relationship between the spatial distributions of excess deaths and care home facilities during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Using registry-based mortality data (January 1st- March ...
(published as 'The presence of care homes and excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (7), 1703-1710)
I10, I18, I30
13491 Steffen Künn
Christian Seel
Dainis Zegners
Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 1218 - 1232)
H12, L23, M11, M54
13490 Matthias Dorner
Katja Görlitz
Training, Wages and a Missing School Graduation Cohort
This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the ...
(updated version published as 'The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on the training market' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102580 (with Elke J. Jahn) )
J21, J24, J31
13489 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Promoting Female Interest in Economics: Limits to Nudges
Why is the proportion of women who study Economics so low? This study assesses whether students respond to messages about majoring in Economics, and whether this response varies by student gender. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111, 123-127)
I21, I23
13488 Stijn Baert
Matteo Picchio
A Signal of (Train)Ability? Grade Repetition and Hiring Chances
This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 867 - 878)
I21, J23, J70, C93
13486 Francesco Pastore
Allan Webster
Kevin Hope
Assessing the Role of Women in Tourism Related Sectors in the Caribbean
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean countries. The study analyses the impact of women in apical positions within firms ...
(published in: International Journal of Tourism Research, 2021, 23 (3), 378-400)
D22, J16, L26, L83, Z32
13485 Jonas Cuzulan Hirani
Hans Henrik Sievertsen
Miriam Wüst
Missing a Nurse Visit
While a large literature studies the impact of exposure to early-life investment policies, this paper examines the impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child ...
(published online as: 'Beyond Treatment Exposure: The Impact of the Timing of Early Interventions on Child and Maternal Health' in: Journal of Human Resources, May 9, 2022 )
I11, I12, I14, I18, I21
13484 Rocco d'Este
Alex Harvey
Universal Credit and Crime
We evaluate the criminogenic effects of Universal Credit (UC), a monumental welfare reform designed to radically change the social security payment system in the United Kingdom. We exploit the UC ...
(published as 'The Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reforms: Universal Credit, Financial Insecurity, and Crime' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2024, 40 (1), 129 - 181)
K14, K42
13483 Chiara Canta
Helmuth Cremer
Firouz Gahvari
Welfare Improving Tax Evasion
We study optimal income taxation in a framework where one's willingness to report his income truthfully is positively correlated with his type. We show that allowing low-productivity types to cheat ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2024, 126 (1), 98 - 126)
H20, H21, H26
13482 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Berkay Özcan
Julia Philipp
Robots and the Gender Pay Gap in Europe
Could robotization make the gender pay gap worse? We provide the first large-scale evidence on the impact of industrial robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103693)
J00, J31, J71
13481 Marek Antosiewicz
J. Rodrigo Fuentes
Piotr Lewandowski
Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks
Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy: The Case of Poland
In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general ...
(published in: Energy Policy, 2022, 160, 112678 )
H23, P18, O15
13480 Hai-Anh H Dang
Trong-Anh Trinh
Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on Its Unintended Consequences
Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 105, 102401.)
D00, H00, O13, Q50
13477 Danula K. Gamage
Almudena Sevilla
Sarah Smith
Women in Economics: A UK Perspective
The status of women in economics in the US has come increasingly under the spotlight. We exploit high quality administrative data to paint the first comprehensive picture of the status of women in UK ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy 2020, 36 (4), 962 - 982)
A14
13473 Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Cécile A. J. Magnée
Does Sibling Gender Affect Personality Traits?
This paper studies whether sibling gender affects personality traits. We use the idea that if parents decide to have a second child, it is random whether they will have a boy or a girl. Therefore, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 102016)
I2, J12, J16, J24
13472 Shigeru Fujita
Giuseppe Moscarini
Fabien Postel-Vinay
Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation
We revisit measurement of Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions, the main engine of labor market competition and employment reallocation, in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). We follow ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 1–51)
J63, E24
13469 David Slusky
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Sunlight and Protection Against Influenza
Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly. This paper investigates ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2021, 40, 100942)
I10, I12, I18, Q5, N32
13468 Seung Jin Cho
Jun Yeong Lee
John V. Winters
Employment Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Metropolitan Status and Size
We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant ...
(published in: Growth and Change, 2021, 52 (4), 1958-1996)
J2, R2
13467 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
COVID-19, Race, and Redlining
Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of ...
(published in: Covid Economics, 2020, 38, 129-195)
I14, J15, N32, N92, R38
13466 Stephen R. G. Jones
Fabian Lange
W. Craig Riddell
Casey Warman
Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2020, 14 (46 S2), S102–S118.)
J21, J22, J23, J63
13465 Claus Schnabel
Union Membership and Collective Bargaining: Trends and Determinants
This survey shows that union membership and density as well as bargaining coverage have fallen in most countries and that collective bargaining has become more decentralized over the last decades. ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham, 2020)
J51, J52, J58
13464 Caterina Calsamiglia
Francisco Martínez-Mora
Antonio Miralles
School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation
We embed the problem of public school choice design in a model of local provision of education. We define cardinal (student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (635), 1081–1104)
I21, H4, D78
13463 Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants
We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the UK, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 respondents in Prolific, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (2), 261-287)
H1, J1, J16
13462 Francesco Pastore
Claudio Quintano
Antonella Rocca
Stuck at a Crossroads? The Duration of the Italian School-To-Work Transition
There is a long period from completing studies to finding a permanent or temporary (but at least satisfactory) job in all European countries, especially in Mediterranean countries, including Italy. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2021, 42 (3), 442-469)
H52, I2, I24, J13, J24
13461 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe
This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has ...
(published as 'The Gender Gap in Time Allocation' in: IZA World of Labor, 2022, 497)
D10, J16, J22
13460 Xi Chen
Binjian Yan
Thomas M. Gill
Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age: Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2022, 160, 689 - 716)
I14, J13, J14, O57
13459 Catia Nicodemo
Albert Satorra
Exploratory Data Analysis on Large Data Sets: The Example of Salary Variation in Spanish Social Security Data
New challenges arise in data visualization when a sizable database is used in the analysis. With many data points, classical scatterplots are non-informative due to the cluttering of points. On the ...
(published in: BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 2022, 25 (3), 283–294)
C55, J01, J08, Y10, C80
13458 Carlo Barone
Denis Fougčre
Karine Martel
Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities, and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
This study presents the results of a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of a shared-book reading (SBR) intervention that targeted children aged 4 living in socially mixed neighborhoods ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024, 17 (4), 746–769)
I21, I24, J13, C93
13457 Lukas Buchheim
Carla Krolage
Sebastian Link
Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?
COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2022, 23 (1), 79-119)
E66, E32, H32, D22, D84
13456 Robert Manduca
Maximilian Hell
Adrian Adermon
Jo Blanden
Espen Bratberg
Anne C. Gielen
Hans van Kippersluis
Keun Bok Lee
Stephen Machin
Martin D. Munk
Martin Nybom
Yuri Ostrovsky
Sumaiya Rahman
Outi Sirniö
Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe
We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across ...
(published as 'Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe' in: American Economic Journal - Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 1 - 30)
J62, D31, P52
13455 Osea Giuntella
Jakub Lonsky
Luca Stella
Fabrizio Mazzonna
Immigration Policy and Immigrants' Sleep: Evidence from DACA
Stress is associated with sleep problems. And poor sleep is linked with mental health and depression symptoms. The stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 182, 1-12)
J15, I10
13454 Laszlo Goerke
An Efficiency-Wage Model with Habit Concerns about Wages
We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees have such preferences, their existence provides firms with incentives to raise ...
(published as 'Habit Formation and Wage Determination' in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2021, 42 (1), 61-76)
D90, J31, J41
13453 Eric A. Hanushek
Lavinia Kinne
Philipp Lergetporer
Ludger Woessmann
Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking
Patience and risk-taking – two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making – are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international ...
(published as 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (646), 2290-2307)
I21, Z10
13452 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Shoshana Grossbard
Intergenerational Residence Patterns and COVID-19 Fatalities in the EU and the US
We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 39, 100934)
J1, I1
13451 Shyamal Chowdhury
Matthias Sutter
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment
Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related ...
(published as 'Economic preferences across generations and family clusters: A large-scale experiment in a developing country' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (9), 2361-2410.)
C90, D1, D90, D81, D64, J13, J24, J62
13449 Emanuele Bracco
Maria De Paola
Colin P. Green
Vincenzo Scoppa
The Spillover of Anti-Immigration Politics to the Schoolyard
There has been a resurgence in right wing and populist politics in recent years. A common element is a focus on immigration, an increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the vilification of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102141.)
J15, J13, D72, I24
13448 Peng Nie
Lu Wang
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Peer Effects and Fertility Preferences in China: Evidence from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey
Despite empirical evidence that individuals form their fertility preferences by observing social norms and interactions in their environments, the exact impact of these peer effects remains unclear. ...
(published online in: Singapore Economic Review, 2021)
D10, D71, J13
13447 Ghazala Azmat
Lena Hensvik
Olof Rosenqvist
Workplace Presenteeism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality
Following the arrival of the first child, women's absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this ...
(published online in. Journal of Human Resources, 10 November 2022, 1121-12014R2)
J16, J22
13445 Nathan Kettlewell
Subjective Expectations for Health Service Use and Consequences for Health Insurance Behavior
I evaluate the accuracy of people's subjective probability expectations for using various health services. Subjective expectations closely reflect patterns of observed utilization, are predicted by ...
(published as 'The informational content of subjective expectations for health service use' in: BMC Health Services Research, 2021, 21, 464 (2021))
D82, D84, I11, I12, I13
13444 Nidhiya Menon
Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of COVID-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India
This paper studies BMI as a correlate of the early spatial distribution and intensity of Covid-19 across the districts of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100990)
I15, I18, O12, D83
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