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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
13104 Ali Fakih
Paul Makdissi
Walid Marrouch
Rami V. Tabri
Myra Yazbeck
Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon
This paper uses the 2013 World Value Survey, as well as the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Arab Barometer, to analyze the dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 228 (1), 205-227)
D72, O53, P16, P40
13102 Daniela Del Boca
Chiara D. Pronzato
Giuseppe Sorrenti
Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children ...
(published as 'Conditional cash transfer programs and household labor supply' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 136, 103755)
I10, I20, J24, I31
13101 Erich Battistin
Carlos Lamarche
Enrico Rettore
Quantiles of the Gain Distribution of an Early Childhood Intervention
We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (6), 1045-1064)
C13, C21, I14, J18
13100 Anna Werbeck
Ansgar Wübker
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Cream Skimming by Health Care Providers and Inequality in Health Care Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Using a randomized field experiment, we show that health care specialists cream-skim patients by their expected profitability. In the German two-tier system, outpatient reimbursement rates for both ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 1325-1350)
I14, I11, I18
13099 Marc Beltempo
Georges Bresson
Guy Lacroix
Using Machine Learning to Predict Nosocomial Infections and Medical Accidents in a NICU
Background: Adult studies have shown that nursing overtime and unit overcrowding is associated with increased adverse patient events but there exists little evidence for the Neonatal Intensive Care ...
(published in: Health & Technology, 2023, 13, 75–87)
I1, J2, C11, C14, C23
13097 Marislei Nishijima
Sarmistha Pal
Do Compulsory Schooling Laws Always Work? A Study of Youth Crime in Brazilian Municipalities
We examine if compulsory schooling laws (CSL) necessarily lower crimes. We focus on violent youth crime (homicides by assault and guns) among 15-19 years age group in all Brazilian municipalities ...
(published as 'Compulsory Schooling Laws, Overcrowding and Youth Crime: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Brazilian Municipalities' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (10), 1589–1607)
H41, I21, K30, O15
13096 Christian Belzil
Arnaud Maurel
Modibo Sidibé
Estimating the Value of Higher Education Financial Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution of the value of financial aid for prospective students. Our results point out ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021,39 (2), 361-395.)
I22, I23, J24
13095 Raymond Robertson
Pioneering a New Approach to Improving Working Conditions in Developing Countries: Better Factories Cambodia
The rise of global supply chains over the last three decades intensified international attention to the conditions endured by workers in poor countries. Collapsed buildings, fires and death created ...
(published in: Handbook on Globalisation and Labour Standards, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022)
F16, F66, F23, J8
13094 Jean Roch Donsimoni
René Glawion
Bodo Plachter
Klaus Wälde
Projecting the Spread of COVID-19 for Germany
We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our theoretical framework builds on a continuous time Markov chain with four states: healthy ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2020, 21 (2), 181-216.)
I18, E17, C63
13093 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Matthew Comey
Amanda Eng
Pamela Meyerhofer
Alexander Willén
Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (4), 907-958)
J13, J15, J16, J22
13092 Guglielmo Briscese
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Mirco Tonin
Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration
We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions enacted in Italy in response to the COVID-19 crisis respond to the length of their possible extension. Based on a survey of a ...
(published as ' Expectations, reference points, and compliance with COVID-19 social distancing measures' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 103, 101983)
H12, I12, I18, D84, D91
13089 Laura Ansala
Olof Aslund
Matti Sarvimäki
Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
This paper studies the relationship between past immigration experiences of the host country and the way new immigrants enter the labor market. We focus on two countries—Finland and Sweden—that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (3), 581-604 )
J61, J62
13087 Giuseppe Sorrenti
Ulf Zölitz
Denis Ribeaud
Manuel Eisner
The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae018, 22 February 2024 )
C93, I21, I24, I26, J24
13086 Andri Chassamboulli
Pedro Maia Gomes
Jumping the Queue: Nepotism and Public-Sector Pay
We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 142, 331-347)
E24, J31, J45, J64
13085 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Subha Mani
Joseph Vecci
Tomáš Želinský
Game of Prejudice: Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin
In an unique lab-in-the-field experiment we design a novel labor market environment, the Game of Prejudice, to elicit preferences for discrimination towards the largest minority group in Europe (the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
C9, D3, I1, O1
13083 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Lucas Guichard
Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions
Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 126, 103364)
F22, D81, D83
13081 Plamen Nikolov
Matthew Bonci
Do Public Program Benefits Crowd Out Private Transfers in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 134, 104967)
D64, H31, H55, J14, J22, J26, O15, O16, R2
13080 Robert W. Fairlie
Prashant Loyalka
Scott Rozelle
Yue Ma
Isolating the 'Tech' from EdTech: Experimental Evidence on Computer Assisted Learning in China
EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 72 (4), 1923–1962)
I21, O15
13079 Cheti Nicoletti
Kjell G. Salvanes
Emma Tominey
Mothers Working during Preschool Years and Child Skills. Does Income Compensate?
Increasing mothers' labour supply in a child's preschool years can cause a reduction in time investments that lead to a negative direct effect on mid-childhood and teenage outcomes. But as mothers' ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (2), 389–429)
I22, I24
13078 Dany Bahar
Hillel Rapoport
Riccardo Turati
Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with ...
(published as 'Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence' in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (8), 103991)
F22, O31, O33
13076 Andres Drenik
Simon Jäger
Pascuel Plotkin
Benjamin Schoefer
Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
We estimate how much firms differentiate pay premia between regular and outsourced workers. We study temp agency work arrangements where pay setting has previously escaped measurement because ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (1), 206–216.)
J31, J53, L24
13075 Teevrat Garg
Ajay Shenoy
The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies
Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103 (4), 1239-1250)
Q53, O40, Q56, H54
13073 Ning Jia
Belton M. Fleisher
Economic Incentives and the Quality of Return Migrant Scholars: The Impact of China's Thousand Young Talents Program
We study the effect of the Thousand Young Talents Program (TYTP) on the academic quality of return migrant scientists to China. Using a unique dataset of the top Chinese mathematics departments' new ...
(latest version available here)
J61, O31, O38
13071 Ashani Amarasinghe
Roland Hodler
Paul A. Raschky
Yves Zenou
Key Players in Economic Development
This paper analyzes the role of networks in the spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in Africa. We show that road and ethnic connectivity are particularly important factors for diffusing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 223, 40-56)
O13, O55, R12
13070 Gabriel Burdin
Mauricio De Rosa
Andrea Vigorito
Joan Vilá
Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016
To contribute to the debate on the recent inequality fall in Latin America, we provide evidence on the primary income distribution in Uruguay for 2009-2016 and assess mobility patterns. Comparing ...
(revised version published as 'Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data' in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105783)
D31, H24, O54
13069 Kerstin Unfried
Krisztina Kis-Katos
The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this paper, we identify under which conditions and to what extent armed conflicts harm the long-run educational attainment of children in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining 66 rounds of DHS ...
(published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2023, 60 (6), 968-984.)
I25, D74, O12
13067 Giorgio Brunello
Áron Gereben
Christoph T. Weiss
Patricia Wruuck
Financing Constraints and Employers' Investment in Training
Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on ...
(published as 'Do investments in human and physical capital respond differently to financing constraints?' in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 158, 10(2022))
J24
13066 Niaz Asadullah
Liyanage Devangi Perera
Saizi Xiao
Vietnam's Extraordinary Performance in the PISA Assessment: A Cultural Explanation of an Education Paradox
This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – consistently high student achievement despite being the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2020, 42 (5), 913-932.)
A20, I21, I28
13065 Simon Chang
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Nicolás Salamanca
Parents' Responses to Teacher Qualifications
We identify the causal effect of teacher qualifications on parents' investments in their children. Exploiting a unique, high-stakes educational setting in which teachers are randomly assigned to ...
(publisehd in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 197, 419 - 446)
D10, I21, I24
13064 Jorge Luis García
James J. Heckman
Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 119-141)
I10, J13, I28, C93
13063 Fabrice Etilé
Paul Frijters
David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Psychological Resilience to Major Socioeconomic Life Events
Understanding who in the population is psychologically resilient in the face of major life events, and who is not, is important for policies that target reductions in disadvantage. In this paper we ...
(published as 'Measuring resilience to major life events' in: Elsevier Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 191, 598-619)
I10, C2, C5
13062 David Neumark
Maysen Yen
Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying out analyses of the impacts of these city minimum wages, as specified in a ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61 (2), 228-255 )
J23, J38
13061 Scott M. Delhommer
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Same-Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment
Same-sex couples' marital surplus, their excess total income over that predicted by their work times and predicted wages, increases little as the duration of their relationship lengthens. When/where ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021, 40, 1120-1139.)
J12, J16, K30
13059 Andrew C. Johnston
Carla Johnston
Is Compassion a Good Career Move?: Nonprofit Earnings Differentials from Job Changes
We explore the nonprofit earnings penalty. To separate the influence of demand and supply, we leverage workers who change employers in administrative tax data. The average nonprofit worker earns 5.5 ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56, 1225 - 1253)
J4, J31, L3
13058 Hai-Anh H Dang
Kseniya Abanokova
Michael Lokshin
Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, 2023, 247 (4), 125-153.)
D6, I3, O1
13057 Stephen P. Jenkins
Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for ...
(published in: The Stata Journal, 2020, 20 (3), 505–531)
D31, D63, I31
13056 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Adeline Delavande
Paulino Font Gilabert
Joanna Maselko
Maternal Investments in Children: The Role of Expected Effort and Returns
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 712–747 )
I12, I15, J24
13055 Vikesh Amin
Carlos A. Flores
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers
We estimate the effect of BMI on mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. To ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 38, 100895)
I10, I12
13054 Michael Jetter
Leandro Magnusson
Sebastian Roth
Becoming Sensitive: Males' Risk and Time Preferences after the 2008 Financial Crisis
This paper presents evidence suggesting men's (but not women's) risk and time preferences have systematically become sensitive to local economic conditions since the 2008 financial crisis. Studying ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 128, 103512)
D81, G11, G14, G41, J16
13053 Vanessa Burbano
Nicolas Padilla
Stephan Meier
Gender Differences in Preferences for Meaning at Work
In an effort to better understand occupational segregation by gender, scholars have begun to examine gender differences in preferences for job characteristics. We contend that a critical job ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 61–94)
D91, J16
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