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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
13210 Nattavudh Powdthavee
The Causal Effect of Education on Climate Literacy and Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Evidence from a Nationwide Natural Experiment
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global ...
(published as 'Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: a nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales' in: Ecological Economics, 2021, 181, 106931.)
I26, Q54
13207 Martin Abel
Willa Brown
Prosocial Behavior in the Time of COVID-19: The Effect of Private and Public Role Models
In public good provision and other collective action problems, people are uncertain about how to balance self-interest and prosociality. Actions of others may inform this decision. We conduct an ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 101, 101942)
H41, I21, K30, O15
13206 Perline A. Demange
Margherita Malanchini
Travis T. Mallard
Pietro Biroli
Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-By-Subtraction
Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we ...
(published in: Nature Genetics, 2021, 53, 35 - 44)
J24, I24, E24, I14
13205 Olivier B. Bargain
Ulugbek Aminjonov
Trust and Compliance to Public Health Policies in Times of COVID-19
While degraded trust and cohesion within a country are often shown to have large socioeconomic impacts, they can also have dramatic consequences when compliance is required for collective survival. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192, 104316)
E71, H12, I12, I18, Z18
13204 Abel Brodeur
Andrew E. Clark
Sarah Flèche
Nattavudh Powdthavee
COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends
The COVID-19 pandemic has led many governments to implement lockdowns. While lockdowns may help to contain the spread of the virus, they may result in substantial damage to population well-being. We ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104346)
I12, I31, J22
13203 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola
Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
Around 1870 the U.S. had no research universities of note, while today it accounts for the largest number in the world. Many accounts attribute this transformation to events surrounding World War II. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 185 - 205)
J24, J44
13202 Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Chi Trieu
Jana Willrodt
Perceived Fairness and Consequences of Affirmative Action Policies
Debates about affirmative action often revolve around fairness. Accordingly, we document substantial heterogeneity in the fairness perception of various affirmative action policies. But do these ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (656), 3099 - 3135)
C91, D02, D63
13200 Karen Clay
Joshua Lewis
Edson Severnini
Xiao Wang
The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1393 - 1402)
I13, I18, N32, N52
13198 Markus Gehrsitz
Henry Saffer
Michael Grossman
The Effect of Changes in Alcohol Tax Differentials on Alcohol Consumption
We show that tax-induced increases in alcohol prices can lead to substantial substitution and avoidance behavior that limits reductions in alcohol consumption. Causal estimates are derived from a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 204,104520)
I12, H21, D12, D62
13196 Stephen P. Jenkins
Fernando Rios-Avila
Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings
Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109253)
C81, C83, D31
13194 Plamen Nikolov
Nusrat Abedin Jimi
The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys
Numerous studies have considered the important role of cognition in estimating the returns to schooling. How cognitive abilities affect schooling may have important policy implications, especially in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101849. )
I21, F63, F66, N37
13193 Sascha O. Becker
Francesco Cinnirella
Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
We provide, for the first time, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the demography of more than 50,000 towns, villages, and manors in 1871 Prussia. We study religion, literacy, fertility, and ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86 (3), 259-290.)
J13, J15, I21, N33, Z12
13191 Felipe Carozzi
Sefi Roth
Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities
In this paper we study the effect of urban density on the exposure of city dwellers to air pollution using data from the United States urban system. Exploiting geological features to instrument for ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102767.)
Q53, R11, I10
13190 Dhaval M. Dave
Andrew I. Friedson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia
When Do Shelter-In-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity across States and Adoption Time
Shelter in place orders (SIPOs) require residents to remain home for all but essential activities such as purchasing food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 59 (1), 29 - 52)
H75, I18
13189 Stefano DellaVigna
Jörg Heining
Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle
Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then exhibits a spike at the benefit exhaustion point. A range of theoretical ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137 (2), 1181 - 1232)
J64, J65, D91
13188 Asadul Islam
Sungoh Kwon
Eema Masood
Nishith Prakash
Shwetlena Sabarwal
Deepak Saraswat
When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short
In this study, we use at scale randomized control trial among 18,000 secondary students in 181 schools in Tanzania (Zanzibar) to examine the effects of personal best goal-settings on students' ...
(published as 'All pain and no gain: When goal setting leads to more effort but no gains in test score' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102594)
D9, I20, I25, O15, O55
13187 Milena Nikolova
Boris Nikolaev
Olga Popova
The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836)
E24, I10, I31, J28, L26
13184 Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Does Early Access to Pension Wealth Improve Health?
We examine the health impacts of early access to public pension wealth by exploiting a unique policy in Singapore allowing individuals to withdraw a proportion of their pension savings after their ...
(revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (4), 1783-1794)
I10, H55, D15
13183 Abi Adams-Prassl
Teodora Boneva
Marta Golin
Christopher Rauh
Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 189, 104245)
J21, J22, J24, J33, J63
13182 Barbara A. Butrica
Nadia S Karamcheva
Is Rising Household Debt Affecting Retirement Decisions?
Household debt among older Americans approaching retirement has increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. Older households have become increasingly more indebted and more leveraged. ...
(published in: Olivia Mitchell and Annamaria Lusardi (eds.), Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020)
J21, J26
13180 Frank M. Fossen
Levent Neyse
Magnus Johannesson
Anna Dreber Almenberg
2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. ...
(revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43)
J23, L26
13179 Robert Duval Hernández
Gary S. Fields
George H. Jakubson
Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities
The question of who benefits from economic growth is usually assessed by using cross section data to calculate changes in income inequality. An alternative is to assess patterns of panel income ...
(published as 'Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities' in: International Economic Review, 2023, 64 (1), 295-324.)
J31, D63
13178 Tim Kaiser
Annamaria Lusardi
Lukas Menkhoff
Carly Urban
Financial Education Affects Financial Knowledge and Downstream Behaviors
We study the rapidly growing literature on the causal effects of financial education programs in a meta-analysis of 76 randomized experiments with a total sample size of over 160,000 individuals. The ...
(published in: Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 145 (2), 255-272)
D14, G53, I21
13176 Sergio Firpo
Antonio F. Galvao
Martyna Kobus
Thomas Parker
Pedro Rosa-Dias
Loss Aversion and the Welfare Ranking of Policy Interventions
In this paper we develop theoretical criteria and econometric methods to rank policy interventions in terms of welfare when individuals are loss-averse. The new criterion for "loss aversion-sensitive ...
(published online in: Journal of Econometrics, 21 December 2023, 104543)
C12, C14, I30
13175 John H. Pencavel
Wage Differentials, Bargaining Protocols, and Trade Unionism in Mid-Twentieth Century American Labor Markets
Income inequality has been lower in periods when trade unionism has been strong. Using observations on wages by occupation, by geography, and by gender in collective bargaining contracts from the ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (1), 139 - 167.)
J31, J51, N32
13174 Ina Ganguli
Ricardo Hausmann
Martina Viarengo
Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law ...
(published in: Economica, 2021, 88 (349), 104 - 128)
I26, J16, J62, M51, Z1
13173 Jeffrey Traczynski
Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, 2020, 5 (2), 337 - 359)
K35, K36, L26, M13
13172 Peter Arcidiacono
Josh Kinsler
Tyler Ransom
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 144, 104079)
I23, I24, J15
13168 Shuaizhang Feng
Jiandong Sun
Misclassification-Errors-Adjusted Sahm Rule for Early Identification of Economic Recession
Accurate identification of economic recessions in a timely fashion is a major macroeconomic challenge. The most successful early detector of recessions, the Sahm rule, relies on changes in ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, 75, 101319)
J64, E32
13167 Emma Gorman
Ian Walker
Heterogeneous Effects of Missing out on a Place at a Preferred Secondary School in England
Schools vary in quality, and high-performing schools tend to be oversubscribed: there are more applicants than places available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 81, 102082)
I21, I24, J24, H44, D47
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