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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
13166 Alberto Prati
Claudia Senik
Feeling Good or Feeling Better?
Can people remember correctly their past well-being? We study three national surveys of the British, German and French population, where more than 50,000 European citizens were asked questions about ...
(published in: Psychological Science, 2022, 33 (11), 1828–1841)
I31, D91
13165 Yun Qiu
Xi Chen
Wei Shi
Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China
This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and February 29 in 2020. We examine the role of various socioeconomic mediating factors, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 1127 - 1172)
I18, I12, C23
13164 Stijn Baert
Louis Lippens
Eline Moens
Philippe Sterkens
Johannes Weytjens
How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?
This study is the first in the world to investigate the expected impact of the COVID-19 crisis on career outcomes and career aspirations. To this end, high-quality survey research with a relevant ...
(revised version published as 'How do employees think the COVID-19 crisis will affect their careers?' in: Plos One, 2021, 16( 5), e0246899)
J63, J62, J30, J41, J15, J16
13163 Thomas Breda
Julien Grenet
Marion Monnet
Clémentine Van Effenterre
Do Female Role Models Reduce the Gender Gap in Science? Evidence from French High Schools
This paper, based on a large-scale field experiment, tests whether a one-hour exposure to external female role models with a background in science affects students' perceptions and choice of field of ...
(published as 'How Effective are Female Role Models in Steering Girls Towards STEM? Evidence from French High Schools'in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (653), 1773-1809 )
C93, I24, J16
13162 Simon Chang
Kamhon Kan
Xiaobo Zhang
Too Many Men, Too Short Lives: The Effect of the Male-Biased Sex Ratio on Mortality
Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, this paper shows that exposure to male-biased sex ratios at the marriageable ages is associated with a greater likelihood of death in later life. Half a million ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 604-626)
I1, J1
13159 Louis-Philippe Béland
Abel Brodeur
Taylor Wright
The Short-Term Economic Consequences of COVID-19: Exposure to Disease, Remote Work and Government Response
In this ongoing project, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document the impact of ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2023, 18 (3), e0270341)
I15, I18, J21
13158 Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Radost Holler
Lena Janys
Bettina M. Siflinger
Christian Zimpelmann
Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations
Using a survey module administered in late March 2020, we analyze how working hours change under the social distancing regulations enacted to fight the CoViD-19 pandemic. We study the Netherlands, ...
(revised version (IZA DP 14382) published as 'Hours and income dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic: The case of the Netherlands' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 73, 102055)
J22, J65, J40
13157 Sylke V. Schnepf
Elena Bastianelli
Zsuzsa Blaskó
Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Policies supporting international student mobility prepare young people for the challenges of global and multicultural environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates ...
(revised version published online as 'What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK' in: European Education Research Journal, 2024, 23 (4), 479 - 502)
I23, I24, D63, D02
13155 Kyoji Fukao
Cristiano Perugini
Fabrizio Pompei
Labour Market Institutions, Technology and Rent Sharing
In this paper we analyse how labour market institutions and technology affect wage determination through rent sharing. To this aim we first extend the theoretical framework of Estevao and Tevlin ...
(published as 'Labour market regimes, technology and rent-sharing in Japan' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 112, 105856)
J30, J41, C23
13154 Pierre Cahuc
Jeremy Hervelin
Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment
In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employment rate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students. Despite this ...
(published as 'The effect of workplace vs school-based vocational education on youth unemployment: Evidence from France' in: European Economic Review, 2024, 162, 104637)
J24, M53, M51
13153 Peter Eibich
Angelo Lorenti
Irene Mosca
Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.
Voluntary work is an important contribution for many non-profit organizations, such as charities, political and religious organizations. Older individuals make up a sizable share of the volunteer ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 76, 102185)
J22, J26
13152 Jean-Victor Alipour
Oliver Falck
Simone Schüller
Germany's Capacities to Work from Home
Due to the COVID-19 crisis and the related "social distancing" measures, working from home (WfH) has suddenly become a crucial lever of economic activity. This paper combines survey and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151,104354 )
D24, J22, J24, O33, R12
13151 Jean Roch Donsimoni
René Glawion
Bodo Plachter
Constantin Weiser
Klaus Wälde
Should Contact Bans Be Lifted in Germany? A Quantitative Prediction of Its Effects
Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (2), 115–133)
I18, E17, C63
13149 Francesco Fasani
Tommaso Frattini
Luigi Minale
Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes
This article investigates the medium to long-term effects on refugee labour market outcomes of the temporary employment bans being imposed in many countries on recently arrived asylum seekers. Using ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2803 - 2854)
F22, J61, K37
13145 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Semih Tumen
Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration
Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102603)
F22, H76, Q53
13144 Andrew E. Clark
Anthony Lepinteur
A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France
Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility amongst the employed. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax, paid by large ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104, 386-398)
I38, J13, J18
13143 Barbara Petrongolo
Maddalena Ronchi
Gender Gaps and the Structure of Local Labor Markets
In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101819)
J16, J21, J31, J61
13142 Georg Graetz
Labor Demand in the Past, Present, and Future
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and the creation of new ones, as well as the reallocation of labor across ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2021, 2, 00007)
J23, O33
13140 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. ...
(published as 'Life satisfaction, loneliness and togetherness, with an application to Covid-19 lock-downs' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 983 - 1000)
I12, J22, I31
13137 Leonardo Baccini
Abel Brodeur
Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of implementing stay-at-home orders, focusing on governors' characteristics. In our ...
(published in: American Politics Research, 2021, 49 (2), 215-220)
H51, I15, P16
13135 Wendelin Schnedler
Nina Lucia Stephan
Revisiting a Remedy against the Chain of Unkindness
Previous experiments observe a chain of unkindness: unkindly treated people treat an innocent third party unkindly. As a remedy, it has been proposed that the unkindly treated person engages in ...
(published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2020, 72, 347–364 )
D91, C91, D03
13134 Damian Clarke
Viviana Salinas
Access to The Emergency Contraceptive Pill Improves Women's Health: Evidence from Chile
We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of ...
(published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (6), 2291 - 2314. )
I18, J13, K38, H75
13130 Nicolas Ajzenman
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Sergei Guriev
Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship
Does exposure to mass migration affect economic behavior, attitudes and beliefs of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102899)
F22, L26, D91, O15, O10
13129 Jaime Arellano-Bover
The Effect of Labor Market Conditions at Entry on Workers' Long-Term Skills
This paper studies the impact of labor market conditions during the education-to-work transition on workers' long-term skill development. Using representative survey data on measures of work-relevant ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104(5), 1028-1045)
J24, J23, E24
13128 Alessandro Cigno
A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough
We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour originally justified on comparative- advantage ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2022, 20, 1-13)
C78, D02, J16, J61
13127 Cynthia Bansak
Xuan Jiang
Guanyi Yang
Sibling Spillover in Rural China: A Story of Sisters and Daughters
We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger ...
(published as 'Sibling spillovers in rural China: A story of sisters' in: China Economic Review, 2022, 76, 101873)
E24, C68, J30
13125 Zohal Hessami
Mariana Lopes da Fonseca
Female Political Representation and Substantive Effects on Policies: A Literature Review
The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is the first paper to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63, 101896)
D78, H00, J16, J18
13124 Orazio Attanasio
Richard Blundell
Gabriella Conti
Giacomo Mason
Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years apart. We construct comparable scales using two validated instruments for the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104171)
J13, J24, I14, I24, C38
13123 Maria Cotofan
Lea Cassar
Robert Dur
Stephan Meier
Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life
Preferences for monetary and non-monetary job attributes are important for understanding workers' motivation and the organization of work. Little is known, however, about how those job preferences ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 467–473)
D9, E7, J2, M5
13122 Isaac Ehrlich
Yun Pei
Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries
Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between ...
(published in: Asian Development Review, 2020, 37 (2), 225 - 263)
F22, F43, J11, J24, O15
13119 Christopher S. Carpenter
Gilbert Gonzales
Tara McKay
Dario Sansone
Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
A large body of research documents that the 2010 dependent coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act was responsible for significantly increasing health insurance coverage among young adults. No ...
(published in: Demography , 2021, 58 (5), 1897-1929)
H75, I13, I18, J10
13118 Kai Hong
Peter A. Savelyev
Kegon T.K. Tan
Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity
We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect while controlling for latent skills and unobserved heterogeneity. We decompose ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 371 - 400)
C41, I12, J24
13117 Andrew C. Johnston
Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are, therefore, highest for firms after downturns, potentially hampering labor-market ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (1), 266 - 293)
D22, H22, H25, H71, J23, J32, J38, J65
13116 Egidio Farina
Colin P. Green
Duncan McVicar
Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
The increasing numbers of workers in employment with little to no job security, so-called precarious employment, has led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect ...
(published as 'Zero hours contracts and self-reported (mental) health in the UK' in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (1), 50-71)
J21, J48, M55
13112 Milena Nikolova
Femke Cnossen
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
We demonstrate why meaningful work, i.e. job-related activities that individuals view as purposeful and worthwhile, matters to labour economists. Building on self-determination theory, which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101847)
J01, J30, J32, J81, I30, I31, M50
13110 Wim Naudé
Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides ...
(published in: AI & Society, 2020, 35 (3), 761-765)
O32, O39, I19, O20
13109 Paul Redmond
Seamus McGuinness
Claire Keane
The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents
This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (2), 346 - 370)
H20, H31, J01, J68
13108 Tobias J. Klein
Martin Salm
Suraj Upadhyay
The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible: Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design
We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 210, 104660)
I13, H51
13107 Chung Choe
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Francesco Renna
Income Taxation and Dual Job Labour Supply
This paper examines the effects of increasing marginal tax rates on labour supply in a setting in which workers may hold two jobs and may be constrained in their weekly hours on their main jobs. A ...
(published online as 'Income taxation and dual job labour supply among male workers in the UK' in: Applied Economics, 11 November 2024 )
J01, J22, H24
13106 Hamid R. Oskorouchi
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
David E. Bloom
The Long-Term Cognitive and Schooling Effects of Childhood Vaccinations in China
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 88, 102293)
I12, I18, I21
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