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13290 Antonio M. Bento
Noah Miller
Mehreen Mookerjee
Edson Severnini
A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121, 102843)
Q53, Q54, C51
13289 Alex Bryson
Heather Joshi
Bożena Wielgoszewska
David Wilkinson
A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain
After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36 (4), 836-854 )
J16, J2, J3
13288 Nicolas Herault
Guyonne Kalb
Understanding the Rising Trend in Female Labour Force Participation
Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2022, 43 (4), 341-363.)
H31, J22, J31
13283 Tymon Sloczynski
Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights
Applied work often studies the effect of a binary variable ("treatment") using linear models with additive effects. I study the interpretation of the OLS estimands in such models when treatment ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 501–509)
C21, C31
13282 Louis-Philippe Béland
Abel Brodeur
Taylor Wright
COVID-19, Stay-At-Home Orders and Employment: Evidence from CPS Data
In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we ...
(published as 'The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response' in: PLOS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0270341)
I15, I18, J21
13281 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Jiri Branka
EU Jobs at Highest Risk of COVID-19 Social Distancing: Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from ...
(also available as Cedefop working paper No. 6201, 2020)
C21, J01, J24, J28
13280 Diogo Britto
Paolo Pinotti
Breno Sampaio
The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil
We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on the universe of workers and criminal cases in Brazil over the 2009-2017 ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (4), 1393-1423)
K42, J63, J65
13279 Christian Belzil
Jörgen Hansen
The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity
We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 35 (7), 841-859)
I2, J1, J3
13277 George J. Borjas
Hugh Cassidy
The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper ...
(published as 'The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Polachek, S.W. and Tatsiramos, K. (ed.) 50th Celebratory Volume (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 50), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 327-367)
J21, J61
13276 Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur
Murat Güray Kirdar
Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work: Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey
We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2022, 16 (4), 526 - 555)
H52, I21, J21, J22
13275 Gozde Corekcioglu
Marco Francesconi
Astrid Kunze
Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020, 36(4), 882-902)
J18, J21, J22, J24, M14
13274 Mehmet Balcilar
Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
Huseyin Ozdemir
Mark E. Wohar
Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in ...
(published as 'Effectiveness of monetary policy under the high and low economic uncertainty states: evidence from the major Asian economies' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1741–1769)
C32, E44, F42, G01
13273 Marco Caliendo
Juliane Hennecke
Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 2785 - 2815 )
I12, D91
13272 Stephen P. Jenkins
Was the Mid-2000s Drop in the British Job Change Rate Genuine or a Survey Design Effect?
The year-on-year job change rate fell sharply, from 18% in 2005 to around 13% in 2006, according to British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) estimates. This fall coincides with the introduction of ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 194, 109383)
J62, C25, C81
13271 Matthias Collischon
Daniel Kühnle
Michael Oberfichtner
Cash-For-Care, or Caring for Cash? The Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children's Development
How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy ...
(published as 'Who Benefits from Cash‐for‐Care? Effects of a Home Care Subsidy on Maternal Employment, Childcare Choices, and Children’s Development' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (4), 1011-1051)
J13, J18, J22
13269 Abu Siddique
Michael Vlassopoulos
Yves Zenou
Market Competition and Discrimination
This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 152, 104361, 2023)
C93, J15, J43, J71, Q13, Z13
13262 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia
Samuel Safford
Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control COVID-19? Local Shelter-In-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth
One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2022, 127, 103294)
H75, I18
13261 Umair Ali
Chris M. Herbst
Christos A. Makridis
The Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Child Care Market: Evidence from Stay-At-Home Orders
Stay-at-home orders (SAHOs) have been implemented in most U.S. states to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This paper quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102094)
H75, J21, I28
13260 Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Victoria Vernon
Telework and Time Use in the United States
Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this ...
(published as 'Telework, Wages, and Time Use in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20 (3), 687–734.)
J22, J31, D13
13257 Ritwik Banerjee
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Priyama Majumdar
Exponential-Growth Prediction Bias and Compliance with Safety Measures in the Times of COVID-19
We conduct a unique, Amazon MTurk-based global experiment to investigate the importance of an exponential-growth prediction bias (EGPB) in understanding why the COVID-19 outbreak has exploded. The ...
(published as 'Exponential-growth prediction bias and compliance with safety measures related to COVID-19' in: Social Science & Medicine, 2021, 268, 113473)
I12, I18, D91
13255 Abel Brodeur
Nikolai Cook
Taylor Wright
On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-At-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution
In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 3 (102427))
P48, Q53, Q58
13254 Louis-Philippe Béland
Abel Brodeur
Derek Mikola
Taylor Wright
The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Occupation Tasks and Mental Health in Canada
In this paper, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes in Canada. Following a pre-analysis plan, we investigate the negative impact of the pandemic on unemployment, ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (51), 214-247)
I15, I18, J21
13253 Lukas Buchheim
Jonas Dovern
Carla Krolage
Sebastian Link
Firm-level Expectations and Behavior in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
This paper studies the determinants of firms' business outlook and managerial mitigation strategies in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis using a representative panel of German firms. We first ...
(published as 'Sentiment and Firm Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 195, 185 - 198)
D22, D84, E23
13251 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
Choosing Differently? College Application Behavior and the Persistence of Educational Advantage
We use administrative data from Ireland to study differences in college application behavior between students from disadvantaged versus advantaged high schools. Ireland provides an interesting ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101998)
I24, J24
13250 Vojtech Bartos
Michal Bauer
Jana Cahlíková
Julie Chytilová
COVID-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners
Aggressive behavior against out-group members often rises during periods of economic hardship and health pandemics. Here, we test the widespread concern that the Covid-19 crisis may fuel hostility ...
(revised version published as 'Covid-19 crisis and hostility against foreigners' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 137, 103818)
C90, D01, D63, D91, J15
13249 Cristiano Perugini
Marko Vladisavljevic
Social Stability Challenged: Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses
The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2021, 43 (1), 146-160)
D31, E61, H31, I30
13246 Angela Daley
Thesia Garner
Shelley Phipps
Eva Sierminska
Differences across Countries and Time in Household Expenditure Patterns: Implications for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales
When comparing economic well-being using income or expenditures, an equivalence scale is often used to adjust for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is ...
(published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2020, 34 (2), 1-24)
I3, D1
13245 Benoit Dostie
Jiang Li
David Card
Daniel Parent
Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 544-567.)
J15, J31, J71
13244 Ioana E. Marinescu
Ivan Ouss
Louis-Daniel Pape
Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 184, 506 - 605)
J31, J32, J42, L13, J51, L40, L41, L44
13243 Paul Gaggl
Rowena Gray
Ioana E. Marinescu
Miguel Morin
Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States
Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101944)
E25, E22, J24, J31, N32, N72, O33
13242 Marco Castillo
David L. Dickinson
Sleep Restriction Increases Coordination Failure
When group outcomes depend on minimal effort (e.g., disease containment, work teams, or indigenous hunt success), a classic coordination problem exists. Using a well-established paradigm, we examine ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep restriction increases coordination failure' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 200, 358 - 370.)
C91, D91
13241 David L. Dickinson
Deliberation Enhances the Confirmation Bias: An Examination of Politics and Religion
Existing research has documented the confirmation bias in the domain of politics, but relatively little research has examined the confirmation bias in religion. I developed a novel task in the ...
(published as 'Deliberation, mood response, and the confirmation bias in the religious belief domain' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024, 109, 102161.)
D91, C9, Z1
13240 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Hermann Gartner
Leo Kaas
Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency
Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2413 - 2459)
E24, J23, J63
13239 Barbara M. Fraumeni
Michael S. Christian
Jon D. Samuels
The Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States: The Long View, 1948–2013
Over the 1948–2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete ...
(published in: Barbara M. Fraumeni (Ed.), Human Capital Measurement, Academic Press, 2021, 167 - 197)
E01, E24, J24, I21, J21
13237 Lena Hensvik
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Roland Rathelot
Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 194, 104349)
J22, J23, J21, J62, J63, J64, E24
13236 Timothy N. Bond
Osea Giuntella
Jakub Lonsky
Immigration and Work Schedules: Theory and Evidence
We develop a theoretical framework to analyze the effects of immigration on native job amenities, focusing on work schedules. Immigrants have a comparative advantage in production at, and lower ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 152, 104358)
F22, J61, J31, R13
13235 Cathal O'Donoghue
Denisa M. Sologon
Iryna Kyzyma
John McHale
Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State has had to respond rapidly and quite severely to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. This has had significant implications for ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (2), 321 - 336)
H23, C15
13234 Abel Brodeur
Idaliya Grigoryeva
Lamis Kattan
Stay-At-Home Orders, Social Distancing and Trust
Better understanding whether and how communities respond to government decisions is crucial for policy makers and health officials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we document the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34 (4), 1321-1354)
H12, I12, I18
13233 Nick Huntington-Klein
Andreu Arenas
Emily A. Beam
Marco Bertoni
Jeffrey R. Bloem
Pralhad Burli
Naibin Chen
Paul Greico
Godwin Ekpe
Todd Pugatch
Martin Saavedra
Yaniv Stopnitzky
The Influence of Hidden Researcher Decisions in Applied Microeconomics
Researchers make hundreds of decisions about data collection, preparation, and analysis in their research. We use a many-analysts approach to measure the extent and impact of these decisions. Two ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (3), 944 - 960 https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12992 )
C81, C10, B41
13232 Oded Stark
Marcin Jakubek
A Methodological Rejoinder to 'Does income relate to health due to psychosocial or material factors?'
There is a presumption that when an individual's comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison group yields an unfavorable outcome, the individual is dismayed and experiences ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2020, 259, 112829)
I12, I14, I18
13231 Claudia L. Persico
Kathryn R. Johnson
Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic: Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?
The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase ...
(published as 'The effects of increased pollution on COVID-19 cases and deaths' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 107, 102432)
Q53, I10, I14
13229 Stijn Baert
Louis Lippens
Eline Moens
Johannes Weytjens
Philippe Sterkens
The COVID-19 Crisis and Telework: A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes
While a considerable number of employees across the globe are being forced to work from home due to the COVID-19 crisis, it is a guessing game as to how they are experiencing this current surge in ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 729 - 753)
J22, J28, D24, I10, J15, J24
13228 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
'More Than One Red Herring'? Heterogeneous Effects of Ageing on Healthcare Utilisation
We study the effect of ageing, defined as an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of ...
(published in:Health Economics, 2020, 29 (S1), 8 - 29)
I18, J13, K38, H75
13223 Valentina Paredes
M. Daniele Paserman
Francisco J. Pino
Does Economics Make You Sexist?
Recent research has highlighted unequal treatment for women in academic economics along several different dimensions: promotion, hiring, credit for co-authorship, and standards for publication in ...
(published online in: Review of Econonomics and Statistics, 24 July 2023)
J16, J71, A22, A13, A14
13222 Erich Battistin
Michele De Nadai
Nandini Krishnan
The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements
While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. We develop a new strategy to identify the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991)
C81, D31, D63, E21, I32
13220 Luis Diaz-Serrano
William Nilsson
The Regional Anatomy of School Dropouts in Spain: The Role of the Industry Structure of Local Labour Markets
A number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market conditions on school dropout. However, none of them have considered the role of the industry structure. We construct data for a ...
(published as 'The regional anatomy of youths' educational attainment in Spain: The role of the employment structure in local labour markets' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2020, 99 (5), 1487-1508.)
J21, J24
13218 Nicola Grözinger
Bernd Irlenbusch
Katharina Laske
Marina Schröder
Innovation and Communication Media in Virtual Teams – An Experimental Study
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly ...
(revised & extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020, 180, 201-218)
C91, J30, M52, O30
13217 Erich Battistin
Sascha O. Becker
Luca Nunziata
More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy
We investigate how changes in the sex ratio induced by World War II affected the bargaining patterns of Italian men in the marriage market after the war. Marriage data from the first wave of the ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (3), 447 - 472)
J12, N34
13216 Benedikt Gerst
Christian Grund
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings
Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role ...
(published in: Work, Employment & Society, 2023, 37, 215 - 235)
M52, M12, J16, J31
13214 Badi H. Baltagi
Georges Bresson
Anoop Chaturvedi
Guy Lacroix
Robust Dynamic Panel Data Models Using e-Contamination
This paper extends the work of Baltagi et al. (2018) to the popular dynamic panel data model. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior ...
(published in: Advances in Econometrics, 2022, 43 B3 (Essays in Honor of M. Hashem Pesaran: Panel Modeling, Micro Applications, and Econometric Methodology), 307 - 336)
C11, C23, C26
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