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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
13443 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status
This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns ...
(published as 'Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-employed' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58, 741–768)
D1, J1, J16, J2, J23
13442 Hani Mansour
Daniel I. Rees
James Reeves
Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1769-1794)
D72, I18
13441 Victor Ronda
Esben Agerbo
Dorthe Bleses
Preben Bo Mortensen
Anders Břrglum
David M. Hougaard
Ole Mors
Merete Nordentoft
Thomas Werge
Michael Rosholm
Family Disadvantage, Gender and the Returns to Genetic Human Capital
This paper relies on a large-scale sample of genotyped individuals linked with detailed register data in Denmark to investigate the context-dependence of genetic influences on human capital ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (2), 550-578)
I1,I21,I24
13440 Felipe Carozzi
Sandro Provenzano
Sefi Roth
Urban Density and COVID-19
This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) ...
(published as 'Urban density and COVID-19: understanding the US experience' in: Annals of Regional Science, 2024, 72, 163–194)
I12, R12
13438 Malak Kandoussi
François Langot
Uncertainty Shocks and Unemployment Dynamics
Recent events suggest that uncertainty changes play a major role in U.S. labor market fluctuations. This study analyzes the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 201, 110760)
E24, E32, J64
13437 Franz Buscha
Emma Gorman
Patrick Sturgis
Spatial and Social Mobility in England and Wales: Moving Out to Move On?
Social mobility—the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins—has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and ...
(published as 'Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: a sub-national analysis of differences and trends over time' in: British Journal of Sociology, 2021, 72 (5), 1378 - 1393)
J62, J61, J21, I24, I26, R12
13434 Lídia Farré
Yarine Fawaz
Libertad González
Jennifer Graves
How the COVID-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain
The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown ...
(published as 'Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work During Covid-19 Times' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (2), 323-347)
D13, J13, J16
13433 Colin P. Green
Jon Marius Vaag Iversen
Refugees and the Educational Attainment of Natives
There has been a recent rapid increase in immigration into Europe, specifically in the form of refugees and asylum seekers. This raises a range of social challenges and a particular focus is ...
(published as 'Refugees and the educational attainment of natives: Evidence from Norway' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102258)
J15, I21
13432 Masato Oikawa
Ryuichi Tanaka
Shun-ichiro Bessho
Haruko Noguchi
Do Class Size Reductions Protect Students from Infectious Disease? Lessons for COVID-19 Policy from Flu Epidemic in Tokyo Metropolitan Area
We evaluate the causal effect of class size (i.e., number of students in a classroom) on incidence of class closure due to flu epidemic in 2015, 2016, and 2017, applying an instrumental variable ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84 (4), 449-579)
I18, I21, I28
13430 Denni Tommasi
Lina Zhang
Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
In empirical research, measuring correctly the benefits of welfare interventions is incredibly relevant for policymakers as well as academic researchers. Unfortunately, the endogenous program ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556)
C14, C21, C26, C35, C51
13429 Alexander M. Danzer
Carsten Feuerbaum
Fabian Gaessler
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105136)
O31, O33, J61
13428 David Adler
Edson Severnini
Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations
Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant health consequences from short-term exposure, and as such has been regulated in the U.S. since the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 223, 104905)
Q53, Q58
13425 Gregory Verdugo
Guillaume Allčgre
Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession
We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation between men and women during the Great Recession in Europe. We first highlight ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101881)
J21, J23, J24
13424 Barry R. Chiswick
RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social ...
(published as 'Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406)
N31, J16, J21, J82
13422 Girum Abebe
Margaret McMillan
Michel Serafinelli
Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926)
F21, O18, D24
13420 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Devashish Mitra
Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market
We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by ...
(published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2020, 102 (3), 237-253)
F1, F2, J4, J8
13419 Stefano Baruffaldi
Felix Poege
A Firm Scientific Community: Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion
We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference ...
(published online as 'Like Stars: How Firms Learn at Scientific Conferences' in: Management Science, 24 May 2025)
O33, O32, D22
13418 Ingo E. Isphording
Nico Pestel
Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 108, 102448)
I12, I18, Q53
13417 N. Meltem Daysal
Michael F. Lovenheim
Nikolaj Siersbćk
David N. Wasser
Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes
We estimate the effect of housing price changes on fertility and early-life child health in Denmark. Using rich population register data among women aged 20-44 who own a home, we find that for each ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104366)
J13
13416 Jens Ruhose
Stephan L. Thomsen
Insa Weilage
Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive ...
(revised version published as 'No mental retirement: estimating voluntary adult education activities of older workers' in: Education Economics, 2023, 32 (4), 440–473. )
J14, J24, J26
13414 Ege Can
Frank M. Fossen
The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah
The economic effects of non-compete agreements have received increasing attention from academics and policymakers. This paper investigates how non-compete policies affect different types of ...
(revised version published as 'The Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts' in: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022, 11 (2/3), 223-252)
L26, O38, J23
13412 Maciej Albinowski
Piotr Lewandowski
The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland
Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (2), 237 - 267)
J21, J23, J38
13411 Abel Brodeur
David M. Gray
Anik Islam
Suraiya Jabeen Bhuiyan
A Literature Review of the Economics of COVID-19
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35(4), 1007-1044)
E00, I15, I18, J20
13410 Balázs Muraközy
Álmos Telegdy
The Effects of EU-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
This paper investigates the effects of non-repayable enterprise grants financed from the European Union's Structural and Cohesion Funds on firm outcomes in Hungary using firm- and worker-level ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (1), 216-234)
H25, D22, O16, J21
13409 Daniela Del Boca
Noemi Oggero
Paola Profeta
Mariacristina Rossi
Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, before and during COVID-19
Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently, with a greater impact on male-dominated sectors. The current COVID-19 crisis ...
(published as 'Women's and men's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1001 - 1017 )
J13, J16, J21
13408 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Working at Home in Greece: Unexplored Potential at Times of Social Distancing?
This paper investigates the incidence, trend and determinants of remote work in Greece. A crisis-stricken country in the years preceding the Covid-19 crisis, Greece entered the first wave of the ...
(published in: Monastiriotis, V. and Katsinas, P. (eds.) The Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Greece, Hellenic Observatory, LSE, 2020, 70 - 128)
C25, J01, J23, J24, J31
13407 Christopher Hoy
Luke McKenzie
Mathias Sinning
Improving Tax Compliance without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Controlled Trials in Papua New Guinea
This paper studies the impact of "nudges" on taxpayers with varying tax compliance histories in Papua New Guinea. We present the results from two population-wide randomized controlled trials in a ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (2), 691–723)
C93, D91, H2, H20, O1, O17
13406 Stephen L. Cheung
Agnieszka Tymula
Xueting Wang
Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards: Evidence from Chinese Teenagers
Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation methods using monetary rewards, with ...
(revised version published as 'Present Bias for Monetary and Dietary Rewards' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1202–1233 )
C91, D12, D80, D91
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