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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 Espańola / 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
13052 Anke Becker
Benjamin Enke
Armin Falk
Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
Variation in economic preferences is systematically related to both individual and aggregate economic outcomes, yet little is known about the origins of the worldwide preference variation. This paper ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 319–323)
D01, D03
13051 Michael C. Knaus
Double Machine Learning Based Program Evaluation under Unconfoundedness
This paper consolidates recent methodological developments based on Double Machine Learning (DML) with a focus on program evaluation under unconfoundedness. DML based methods leverage flexible ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2022, 25 (3), 602-627)
C21
13050 Ömer Tuğsal Doruk
Francesco Pastore
Hasan Bilgehan Yavuz
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Latin American Economies: An Empirical Approach
Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2024, 48 (1), 101154)
D60, I30, J24, J6, J62
13049 Giovanni Peri
Derek Rury
Justin C. Wiltshire
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria
Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (6), 1795-1829)
F22, J15, J21, J61
13048 Alexander M. Danzer
Lennard Zyska
Pensions and Fertility: Micro-Economic Evidence
This study identifies the causal effect of pension generosity on women's fertility behavior. It capitalizes on Brazil's expansion of the pension system to rural workers, whose pension wealth ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (2), 126-165)
J13, I38, H55, D15
13046 Marc Beltempo
Georges Bresson
Jean-Michel Etienne
Guy Lacroix
Infections, Accidents and Nursing Overtime in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Bayesian Semiparametric Panel Data Logit Model
The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The literature lacks clear evidence on this issue and ...
(published as 'Infections, accidents and nursing overtime in a neonatal intensive care unit' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 23, 627 - 643)
I1, J2, C11, C14, C23
13044 Maurizio Bussolo
Daniele Checchi
Vito Peragine
Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity (IOp) in the four largest European economies (France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy). ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 277 - 323)
D31, D63, E24, I24, J62
13043 Kseniya Abanokova
Hai-Anh H Dang
Michael Lokshin
The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in Russia
Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on ...
(published as 'Do Adjustments for Equivalence Scales Affect Poverty Dynamics? Evidence from the Russian Federation during 1994-2017' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (S1), S167 - S192)
I30, J10, O15
13040 János Köllő
István Boza
László Balázsi
Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE ...
(published in: Journal for Labor Market Research, 2021, 55, 3 (2021))
F23, J31, J62
13039 Hartmut Lehmann
Aleksey Oshchepkov
Maria Giulia Silvagni
Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating a Neoclassical Growth Model
In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from 1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly ...
(revised version published as 'Regional Convergence in Russia: Estimating an Augmented Solow Model' in: Economic Systems, 2023, 47 (4), 101128)
O47, R11, P2
13038 Vincenzo Carrieri
Leonardo Madio
Francesco Principe
Do-It-Yourself Medicine? The Impact of Light Cannabis Liberalization on Prescription Drugs
Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about the booming CBD (cannabidiol) products. However, little is known about the impact of their liberalization. We study a unique case of unintended ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 74, 102371)
H51, H75, I18, K32, K42
13037 None None
Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Regina T. Riphahn
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (3), 1201-1219)
J21, J23, J38, C26
13036 Pierre Mouganie
Ruba Ajeeb
Mark Hoekstra
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon
An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 March 2023)
I18, H41
13034 Mariacristina Piva
Massimiliano Tani
Marco Vivarelli
The Productivity Impact of Business Visits across Industries
This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is ...
(published as 'The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility' in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 691 - 705)
J61 , O33
13033 Daniel Fackler
Lisa Hölscher
Claus Schnabel
Antje Weyh
Does Working at a Start-Up Pay Off?
Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (4), 2211-2233)
J31, J63, L26, M51
13032 Sascha O. Becker
Lukas Mergele
Ludger Woessmann
The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020, 34 (2), 143-171)
D72, H11, P26, P36, N44
13031 Hannah Van Borm
Marlot Dhoop
Allien Van Acker
Stijn Baert
What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2020, 41 (6), 753 - 777)
J15, J71, J16, J24, J23
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