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17014 Nikos Askitas
A Hands-on Machine Learning Primer for Social Scientists: Math, Algorithms and Code
This paper addresses the steep learning curve in Machine Learning faced by noncomputer scientists, particularly social scientists, stemming from the absence of a primer on its fundamental principles. ...
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C01, C87, C00, C60
17012 Matthew Roskruge
Jacques Poot
The Relationship between Social Capital and Migrant Integration, Ethnic Diversity, and Spatial Sorting
In this paper, we present evidence from quantitative research over the last decade on how the social capital of individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, ...
(published online as 'Evidence of the effects of ethnic diversity, years of residence, and location on migrant bridging, bonding, and linking, social capital: a New Zealand synthesis' in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 29 June 2025 )
F22, R11, Z13
17010 Oded Stark
The Modification of Social Space as a Tool for Lowering Social Stress
The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual's location in social space, and is the ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology. 2024, 53, 101349)
D01, D63, D91, I10, I14, I31, Z18
17009 Thushyanthan Baskaran
Zohal Hessami
Sebastian Schirner
Young versus Old Politicians in Local Politics
Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 225, 88-106)
D72, D78, H70, H72, J13, J14
17008 Baoling Zou
Ashok K. Mishra
Modernizing Smallholder Agriculture and Achieving Food Security: An Exploration in Machinery Services and Labor Reallocation in China
Worldwide, most farms are small and family-operated. This study discusses the future of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts ...
(published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2024, 46 (4), 1662-1691)
Q12, C36, J22
17005 Susanne Kohaut
Claus Schnabel
The Demise of Works Councils in Germany
This paper documents and analyses the demise of works councils in Germany in the period 2007-2022. Using representative panel data, we show that the share of plants with a works council has fallen ...
(forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen (German Journal of Industrial Relations), 2025)
J53, M50
17002 Oded Stark
Wiktor Budzinski
The Merger of Populations as a Revision of Comparison Space: Repercussions for Social Stress and Income Inequality
The merger of populations expands the comparison space of incomes. As a result, measures of the income-based social stress and of the income inequality of the constituent populations need to be ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 237, 111585)
D31, D63, F02, F15
17001 Hai-Anh H Dang
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Minh N.N. Do
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP ...
(forthcoming in: Middle East Development Journal, 2025)
E24, I30, J21, O12
16997 Zhuoer Lin
Xuecheng Yin
Becca R. Levy
Yue Yuan
Xi Chen
Children's Residential Proximity, Spousal Presence and Dementia Risk
Cognitive impairment poses considerable challenges among older adults, with the protective role of family support becoming increasingly crucial. This study examines the role of children's residential ...
(published as 'Association of Children's Residential Proximity and Spousal Presence with Lower Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment' in: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2024, 32 (10), 1187-1199)
I12, J14, I18, I11
16990 Tsunao Okumura
Yuko Ueno
Emiko Usui
Effects of Mandatory Residencies on Female Physicians' Specialty Choices: Evidence from Japan's New Medical Residency Program
Female physicians remain underrepresented in surgical specialties in Japan. The 2004 New Postgraduate Medical Education Program mandated a two-year rotating residency that allowed residents to choose ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102566)
J16, J24, J44
16985 Matías Ciaschi
Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez
Mariana Viollaz
Navigating Educational Disruptions: The Gender Divide in Parental Involvement and Children's Learning Outcomes
This study analyzes the adjustment in time allocation to school support activities by mothers and fathers during the pandemic across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, exploring the ...
(published online in: Review of Economics of the Household, 08 November 2024)
I1, J13, J21
16983 David Blazar
Wenjing Gao
Seth Gershenson
Ramon Goings
Francisco Lagos
Do Grow-Your-Own Programs Work? Evidence from the Teacher Academy of Maryland
Local teacher recruitment through "grow-your-own" programs is a prominent strategy to address workforce shortages and ensure that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2025)
I20, J24, H52
16980 Francisca M. Antman
Kirk Doran
Xuechao Qian
Bruce A. Weinberg
Half Empty and Half Full? Women in Economics and the Rise in Gender-Related Research
Using the EconLit dissertation database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics from names, we investigate the connection between the gender of economics dissertators ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, 114, 226-231)
I23, J16, O30
16979 Francisca M. Antman
Kirk Doran
Xuechao Qian
Bruce A. Weinberg
Demographic Diversity and Economic Research: Fields of Specialization and Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
Using dissertation research topics found in the EconLit database and large-scale algorithmic methods that identify author demographics based on names, we explore the link between race and ethnicity ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, 114, 528-534)
I23, J15, O30
16975 Atsushi Inoue
Ryuichi Tanaka
The Rank of Socioeconomic Status within a Class and the Incidence of School Bullying and School Absence
In this study, we examine the impact of a student's household socioeconomic status (SES) rank within a class on two critical factors affecting the accumulation of human capital: school bullying ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 101, 102545)
I21
16974 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Examining the Long-Run Impacts of Racial Terror with Data on Historical Lynchings of Mexicans in Texas
We merge the longitudinally linked historical U.S. Census records with data on lynchings of Hispanics in Texas to investigate the impacts of historical lynchings of ethnic Mexicans in Texas on ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, 114, 215–220)
J15, N31, N32, I2
16973 Sebastian Till Braun
Jan Stuhler
The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective
Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 16973)
J16, J20, N34
16971 Yuting Zhang
Jin Zhao
Zhangsheng Yu
Guanghai Wang
Jun Zhang
Fan Jiang
Saishuang Wu
Yue Zhang
Donglan Zhang
Xi Chen
COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were ...
(published in: Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, 161, 107654)
I18, I12, H75, I28, C23
16970 Leila Ben Salem
Ridha Nouira
Sami Saafi
Christophe Rault
How Do Oil Prices Affect the GDP and Its Components? New Evidence from a Time-Varying Threshold Model
Revealing the precise thresholds at which fluctuations in oil prices start to affect gross domestic product and its various components (consumption, investment, expenditure and exports) holds ...
(revised version published in: Energy Policy, 2024, 190, 114162)
C5, Q4, Q43
16963 Subhasish M Chowdhury
Sarah Jewell
Carl Singleton
Can Awareness Reduce (and Reverse) Identity-Driven Bias in Judgement? Evidence from International Cricket
Competitions often suffer from biased judgments by officials tied to their social identities. In international cricket, home nation umpires favoured home teams, but neutral umpires were introduced ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 226, 106697.)
D01, D91, L83, Z2
16957 Li Dai
Pedro S. Martins
Does Vocational Education Pay off in China? Evidence from City-Level Education Supply Shocks
China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2024, 140, 106863)
I26, I25, J24, J31, C36
16955 Stefan C. Wolter
Thea Zöllner
Are Parents an Obstacle to Gender-Atypical Occupational Choices?
Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a persistent concern for policymakers and academics globally. We contribute to the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025)
J24, J16
16947 Michael Jetter
On the Post-Enlightenment Evolution of Moral Universalism
Is humanity's circle of moral concern expanding, as often claimed? I explore frequencies of morally universal language in 15m book publications in American English, British English, French, Spanish, ...
(advanced version published online in: Economic Journal, 18 June 2025 )
N30, Z12, Z13
16946 Hideo Akabayashi
Ryuichi Tanaka
The Rate of Return to Early Childhood Education in Japan: Estimates from the Nationwide Expansion
We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2024, 32 (5), 581-598)
I22, I28, H75
16945 Janine Albiez
Maurizio Strazzeri
Stefan C. Wolter
Students' Grit and Their Post-compulsory Educational Choices and Trajectories: Evidence from Switzerland
We examine the association between the personality trait grit and post-compulsory educational choices and trajectories using a large survey linked to administrative student register data. Exploiting ...
(published online in: , 16 September 2025)
D01, I20
16944 Maximilian Kasy
Algorithmic Bias and Racial Inequality: A Critical Review
Most definitions of algorithmic bias and fairness encode decisionmaker interests, such as profits, rather than the interests of disadvantaged groups (e.g., racial minorities): Bias is defined as a ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, 40 (3), 530–546)
J7, O3
16939 Alena Bičáková
Štepán Jurajda
COVID-19 and Political Preferences through Stages of the Pandemic: The Case of the Czech Republic
We track the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on political preferences through 'high' and 'low' phases of the pandemic. We ask about the effects of the health and the economic costs of the pandemic ...
(published online as 'Political Preferences Through Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Political Research Quarterly, 12 March 2025)
D72
16935 Lucas Guichard
Joël Machado
The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy
We analyze the externalities arising from a bilateral asylum policy - the list of safe origin countries - relying on a tractable model. Using self-collected monthly data, we estimate that including ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 59–74)
F22, K37, J61
16929 Adam Levai
Riccardo Turati
International Immigration and Labor Regulation
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2025, 127 (4), 809-851)
J61, K31, F22
16928 David Blazar
Max Anthenelli
Wenjing Gao
Ramon Goings
Seth Gershenson
Disparate Pathways: Understanding Racial Disparities in Teaching
Mounting evidence supporting the advantages of a diverse teacher workforce prompts policymakers to scrutinize existing recruitment pathways. Following four cohorts of Maryland public high-school ...
(forthcoming in: Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 2025)
I2, J2, J4
16926 Tim Kaiser
Annamaria Lusardi
Financial Literacy and Financial Education: An Overview
This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic ...
(forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook of Banking (eds. Berger et al.))
G53, D14
16922 Ivan Petkov
Francesc Ortega
Flood Risk and Insurance Take-up in the Flood Zone and Its Periphery
Many studies have investigated flood risk and insurance coverage in the 100-year flood zone, but much less is known about the periphery of the flood zone. We present a new approach to estimate flood ...
(published as 'Learning from experience: Flooding and insurance take-up in the flood zone and its periphery' in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2025, 92 (2), 312-356)
Q54, G22
16921 Thomas Siedler
Silke Anger
Bernhard Christoph
Agata Galkiewicz
Shushanik Margaryan
Frauke Peter
Malte Sandner
War, International Spillovers, and Adolescents: Evidence from Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
Using novel longitudinal data, this paper studies the short- and medium-term effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 on social trust of adolescents in Germany. Comparing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, 181-193)
C23, H75, I14, N44
16918 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Gender Differences in Graduate Degree Choices
While gender differences in the decision of what to study at undergraduate level are much studied, there is relatively little attention paid to subsequent study decisions of graduates. Given the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 230, 106882)
J16, J24, I21, I23, I24, I26
16916 Wim Naudé
Is the Scholarly Field of Entrepreneurship at Its End?
This paper presents tentative evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number of ...
(published as 'Business and entrepreneurship is declining as scholarly field: Empirical evidence' in: PLOS ONE, 2025, 20 (5), e0323297)
L26, O30, B40, J24
16915 Henning Hermes
Philipp Lergetporer
Frauke Peter
Simon Wiederhold
Application Barriers and the Socioeconomic Gap in Child Care Enrollment
Why are children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) substantially less likely to be enrolled in child care? We study whether barriers in the application process work against lower-SES children — ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2025, 23 (3), 1133 -1172)
I21, J13, J18, J24, C93
16914 Moustafa Feriga
Nancy Lozano Gracia
Pieter Serneels
The Impact of Climate Change on Work Lessons for Developing Countries
This paper identifies five areas where climate change may impact work and draws lessons for developing countries by reviewing the evidence. Firstly, demand for labor is unevenly affected, with ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2025, 40 (1), 104–146)
Q54, J01, O1
16907 Mathias Huebener
Sevrin Waights
C. Katharina Spieß
Well-Being throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: Gendered Effects of Daycare and School Closures
In this chapter, we aim to improve the understanding of the well-being impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide an overview of the existing literature and carry out empirical analysis aimed at ...
(published in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 183 - 197)
I31, I24, J1, I20
16902 Thomas Goldring
David C. Ribar
Equitable Use of Subsidized Child Care in Georgia
High-quality childcare services are vital to children's development and family wellbeing but are not equitably accessed by all children. Programs supported by the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2025, 70 , 65-78)
J13, I38
16897 Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Wonjun Lyou
The Effects of Patient Cost-Sharing on Adolescents' Healthcare Utilization and Financial Risk Protection: Evidence from South Korea
We examine the effects of patient cost-sharing on adolescents' healthcare utilization and out-of-pocket medical expenditures by exploiting the healthcare reform in South Korea that lowered the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62 (3), 1009-1023.)
I12, I13, I18
16892 Hai-Anh H Dang
Dean Jolliffe
Umar Serajuddin
Brian Stacy
Country Statistical Capacity: A Recent Assessment Tool and Further Reflections on the Way Forward
A country's statistical capacity takes an indispensable part in its development. We offer a comprehensive comparison between the World Bank's Statistical Performance Indicators and Index (SPI) and ...
(published in: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, 2024, 40 (2), 211–225)
C8, H00, I00, O1
16888 Marianna Kudlyak
How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?
In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 28 (2), 159–180)
E24, E32, J30, J41, J63, J64
16884 Francesco Fasani
Jacopo Mazza
Immigrant Key Workers: Their Contribution to Europe's COVID-19 Response
This paper contributes to the literature on the Covid-19 effects on workers and labor markets by focusing on the experience of migrant key workers in EU countries. Our analysis, based on survey data ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality)
F22, J61, K37
16883 Christian Grund
Anna Nießen
The Use of Performance Appraisals and Employees' Presenteeism Behavior
Presenteeism behavior, i.e. working despite illness, is a common phenomenon wordwide and can have severe consequences for employees and firms alike. In this study, we investigate the relation between ...
(forthcoming: British Journal of Industrial Relations)
M5, I12, J22, J53
16882 Anna Stansbury
Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the US and UK
There is substantial evidence of minimum wage noncompliance in the US and the UK. In this paper, I compile new, comprehensive data on the costs minimum wage violators incur when detected. In both ...
(published as 'Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the United States and the United Kingdom' in: ILR Review, 2024, 78 (1), 190-216)
J38, J58, K31
16879 Maryam Naghsh Nejad
Kees Van Gool
Impact of Time of Diagnosis on Out-of-Pocket Costs of Cancer Treatment, a Side Effect of Health Insurance Design in Australia
The Extended Medicare Safety Net (EMSN) in Australia was designed to provide financial assistance to patients with high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical treatment. The EMSN works on a calendar ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2024, 145, 105055)
I13, I14, I11
16875 Julija Simpson
John Wildman
Clare Bambra
Heather Brown
Longer Working Hours and Maternal Mental Health: A Comparison of Single vs. Partnered Mothers
Single mothers have experienced increasing work requirements both in the UK and in other developed countries. Little is known how increasing working hours may have affected their mental health. We ...
(published as 'Do longer job hours matter for maternal mental health? A longitudinal analysis of single versus partnered mothers' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (12), 2742-2756 )
J13, J16, J22
16873 Oded Stark
Grzegorz Kosiorowski
An Optimal Allocation of Asylum Seekers
We formulate a rule for allocating asylum seekers that is based on the social preferences of the native workers of the receiving countries. To derive the rule, we construct for each country a social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 220, 1 - 11)
C54, D62, D78, E61, E65, F22, F62, F68, I31, I38, J15, J48, J68, O15
16872 Simon Gächter
Esther Kaiser
Manfred Königstein
Incentive Contracts Crowd Out Voluntary Cooperation: Evidence from Gift-Exchange Experiments
Explicit and implicit incentives and opportunities for mutually beneficial voluntary cooperation co-exist in many contractual relationships. In a series of eight laboratory gift-exchange experiments, ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2025, 28 (1), 75-106 )
C70, C90
16871 Pim Koopmans
Max van Lent
Jim Been
Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market
The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and has been documented for many countries. Little is still known about the impact of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (4), 1359–1409)
C33, D12, D13, J16, J22
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