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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
13030 Santiago Budría
Carlos Martínez de Ibarreta
Educational and Skills Mismatches among Immigrants: The Impact of Host Language Proficiency
This paper asks to what extent host language proficiency can insure immigrants against the risk of ending up in mismatched jobs. Using the 2003-2016 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...
(published as 'Education and skill mismatches among immigrants: The impact of host language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review 2021, 84, 102145.)
F22, J24, J61
13029 Ulrich Kaiser
Johan Moritz Kuhn
Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textuThe al Information for Startup Performance Prediction
Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2020, 14, e00179)
L26, C53
13028 Francesca Calamunci
Francesco Drago
The Economic Impact of Organized Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy: Evidence from the Judicial Administration of Organized Crime Firms
We analyze the economic consequences on firm profitability, performance, and investments of having another firm in the same market affiliated with a criminal organization. We do so by evaluating the ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2020, 6, 275 - 297)
H00, H32, J00, K14
13027 Michael Jetter
Teresa Molina
Persuasive Agenda-Setting: Rodrigo Duterte's Inauguration Speech and Drugs in the Philippines
Can democratically elected politicians persuade their constituents to alter policy priorities? With little empirical support for this hypothesis to date, we propose that Rodrigo Duterte's ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156 ,102843)
D72, H11, H75, I12, K42, N45
13026 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Sergei Guriev
Daniel Treisman
Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Politics, 2024, 86 (4), 1177 - 1191)
D72, F14, G02, P16
13025 Andrew Leigh
The Second Convict Age: Explaining the Return of Mass Imprisonment in Australia
Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater share of the adult population than at any point since the late nineteenth century. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (313), 187-208 )
I30, K14, N30
13024 Andrew Leigh
Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Compiling data from dozens of archival sources, I compile the most extensive series to date of the long-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, ...
(published as 'Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, and the United States' in: Australian Economic History Review, 2020, 60 (2), 148-185 )
I30, K14, N30
13023 Sarah Brown
Mark N. Harris
Christopher Spencer
Karl Taylor
Financial Expectations and Household Consumption: Does Middle Inflation Matter?
Using British panel data, we explore the finding that households often expect theirÂ…financial position to remain unchanged compared to other alternatives, using a generalised middle inflated ordered ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2024, 56 (4), 741-768.)
C12, C35
13021 Paul Frijters
Christian Krekel
Aydogan Ulker
Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive events be spread out or bunched? We answer these questions exploiting quarterly ...
(published as 'Should bads be inflicted all at once, like Machiavelli said? Evidence from life-satisfaction data' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 1 - 27)
D1, I31, K0
13020 Ding Liu
Daniel L. Millimet
Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data
Understanding the relationship between disability and employment is critical and has long been the subject of study. However, estimating this relationship is difficult, particularly with survey data, ...
(published as 'Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Misclassification' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30, 1628-1647)
C14, C18, J14, J64
13018 Simone Bertoli
Herbert Brücker
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?
More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination-specific policy measures in shaping their location choices. We bring to the data a ...
(revised version published as 'Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 93, 103771)
F22, K37
13016 Iván Fernández-Val
Franco Peracchi
Aico van Vuuren
Francis Vella
Hours Worked and the U.S. Distribution of Real Annual Earnings 1976–2016
We examine the impact of annual hours worked on annual earnings by decomposing changes in the real annual earnings distribution into composition, structural and hours effects. We do so via a ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 39 (4), 659 - 678)
C14, I24, J00
13015 Alex Bryson
Harald Dale-Olsen
Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation
We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging results from early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2021, 49, 41-65 )
J28, J51, J81, L23, O31
13012 Sher Afghan Asad
Ritwik Banerjee
Joydeep Bhattacharya
Do Workers Discriminate against Their Out-group Employers? Evidence from the Gig Economy
We study possible worker-to-employer discrimination manifested via social preferences in an online labor market. Specifically, we ask, do workers exhibit positive social preferences for an out-race ...
(published as 'Do workers discriminate against their out-group employers? Evidence from an online platform economy' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 216, 221 - 242)
J71, D91, C93
13011 Arnab K. Basu
Ralitza Dimova
Household Behavioral Preferences and the Child Labor-Education Trade-off: Framed Field Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child ...
(published as 'Household Preferences and Child Labor in Rural Ethiopia ' in: Journal of African Economis, 2024, 33 (1), 20 - 45)
C93, J43, O55
13010 Sally Evans
Peter Siminski
The Effect of Outside Temperature on Criminal Court Sentencing Decisions
Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the ...
(published in: SURE Journal, 2021, 21 (1))
K14, K41, Q54
13009 Eleanor J. Choi
Jaewoo Choi
Hyelim Son
The Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Entry in a Recession: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis
This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997–1998 Asian financial crisis in ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101926)
E32, J10, E21, J20, J31
13008 Andrea Albanese
Giovanni Gallo
Buy Flexible, Pay More: The Role of Temporary Contracts on Wage Inequality
We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2020, 64, 101814)
J31, J41, C31, J21
13004 Céline Piton
François Rycx
The Heterogeneous Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Belgium
This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly ...
(published as 'A Broken Social Elevator? Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-generation Immigrants in Belgium' in: De Economist, 2021, 169 (3), 319-365)
J15, J16, J21, J24, J61
13003 Mario Bossler
Thorsten Schank
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased during the first years of this period, it recently returned to its initial ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (3), 813 - 857 )
J31, J38
13002 Bart Cockx
Koen Declercq
Muriel Dejemeppe
Leda Inga
Bruno Van der Linden
Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101816 )
J64, J65, J68
13001 Isha Agarwal
Grace Weishi Gu
Eswar Prasad
The Determinants of China's International Portfolio Equity Allocations
We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows has shifted from accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by the central bank ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2020, 68, 643 - 692)
F2, F3, F4
12999 Sander Wagner
Diederik Boertien
Mette Gřrtz
The Wealth of Parents: Trends over Time in Assortative Mating Based on Parental Wealth
This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of ...
(published in: Demography, 2020, 57 (5), 1809 - 1831)
D31, J12, J60
12998 Katharina Lima de Miranda
Dennis J. Snower
Recoupling Economic and Social Prosperity
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and ...
(published in: Global Perspectives, 2020, 1 (1), 11867)
I31, O11, D63, D91, A13, B55, F01, F60, H11
12996 Elif Kara
Mirco Tonin
Michael Vlassopoulos
Class Size Effects in Higher Education: Differences across STEM and Non-STEM Fields
In recent years, many countries have experienced a significant expansion of higher education enrolment. There is a particular interest among policy makers for further growth in STEM subjects, which ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 82, 102104)
I21, I23, I28
12995 Cristina Bellés Obrero
Emma Duchini
Who Benefits from General Knowledge?
While vocational education is meant to provide occupational-specific skills that are directly employable, their returns may be limited in fast-changing economies. Conversely, general education should ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 85, 102122)
I26, I28, J24
12994 Dany Bahar
Prithwiraj Choudhury
Hillel Rapoport
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947)
O31, O33, F22
12993 Peter Eibich
Thomas Siedler
Retirement, Intergenerational Time Transfers, and Fertility
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 124, 1-41)
J13, J14, J22, J26
12992 Brice Corgnet
Simon Gächter
Roberto Hernán González
Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction
People are generally assumed to shy away from activities generating stochastic rewards, thus requiring extra compensation for handling any additional risk. In contrast with this view, neuroscience ...
(revised version published online as 'No rest for the weary: Pay uncertainty reduces engagement in recovery' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2025 )
C92, D87, D91, M54
12991 Maria De Paola
Roberto Nistico
Vincenzo Scoppa
Fertility Decisions and Employment Protection: The Unintended Consequences of the Italian Jobs Act
We study the effect of a reduction in employment protection on fertility decisions. Using data from the Italian Labor Force Survey for the years 2013-2018, we analyze how the propensity to have a ...
(published as 'Employment protection and fertility decisions: the unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (108), 735 - 773)
J13, J65, J41, M51, C31
12989 Alexander Paul
Dorthe Bleses
Michael Rosholm
Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions
Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 September 2023)
I18, I28, I38
12988 Catalina Herrera-Almanza
David E. Sahn
Childhood Determinants of Internal Youth Migration in Senegal
BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2020, 43 (45), 1335 - 1366)
O15, R23, J13, N37
12987 Joan Costa-Font
Paola Giuliano
Berkay Özcan
The Cultural Origin of Saving Behavior
Traditional economic interpretations have not been successful in explaining differences in saving rates across countries. One hypothesis is that savings respond to cultural specific social norms. A ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2019, 13 (9), e0202290)
Z1, D0
12986 Ziting Wu
Xi Chen
Guoxing Li
Lin Tian
Zhan Wang
Xiuqin Xiong
Chuan Yang
Zijun Zhou
Xiaochuan Pan
The Impact of Air Pollution on Attributable Risks and Economic Costs of Hospitalization for Mental Disorders
This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders ...
(published as 'Attributable risk and economic cost of hospital admissions for mental disorders due to PM2.5 in Beijing' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 718, 137274)
Q51, Q53, I24, I31, G11, G41, J24
12985 Lee Crawfurd
Todd Pugatch
Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries
The types of workers recruited into teaching and their allocation across classrooms can greatly influence a country's stock of human capital. This paper considers how markets and non-market ...
(published in: Brian P. McCall (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022)
J44, J45, J31, J21, J23, I28
12984 Artjoms Ivlevs
Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective
This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1): 48-76)
F22, F24, F64, P28, R11, R23
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