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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12934 Catia Batista
Pedro C. Vicente
Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2020, 110, 594 - 598)
O16, O33, G20
12933 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on ...
(published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741)
J62, E24, D65
12932 Gunes Gokmen
Tommaso Nannicini
Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato
Chris Papageorgiou
Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2529-2552)
E44, G01, L51, P16
12931 Lena Hensvik
Oskar Nordström Skans
The Skill-Specific Impact of Past and Projected Occupational Decline
Using population-wide Swedish register data on cognitive abilities and productive personality traits, we show that employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102326)
J21, J31
12930 Unal Seven
Semih Tumen
Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence
We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2020, 65, 161-183)
J43, Q14, Q18, O47
12929 Pierluigi Balduzzi
Emanuele Brancati
Marco Brianti
Fabio Schiantarelli
Populism, Political Risk and the Economy: Lessons from Italy
We study the effects on financial markets and real economic activity of changes in risk related to political events and policy announcements in Italy during the 2013-2019 period that saw the rise to ...
(published as 'Political Risk, Populism and the Economy' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (653),1677 - 1704)
E44, G10, H62, H63
12928 Georges Bresson
Guy Lacroix
Mohammad Arshad Rahman
Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects: An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 227 - 259)
C11, C31, C33, C35, K14, K42
12927 Krzysztof Karbownik
The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover: Evidence from an Admission Reform
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results ...
(Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101960)
I2, J2, J63
12926 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Fiona Tregenna
Enterprising Women in Southern Africa: When Does Land Ownership Matter?
Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41 (1), 37 - 51)
G21, L26, D24, O17
12925 Eugenio Proto
Aldo Rustichini
Andis Sofianos
Intelligence, Errors and Strategic Choices in the Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma
A large literature in behavioral economics has emphasized in the last decades the role of individual differences in social preferences (such as trust and altruism) and in influencing behavior in ...
(published as 'Intelligence, Errors, and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (5), 2723 - 2767)
C73, C91, C92, B83
12924 Jérôme Adda
Yarine Fawaz
The Health Toll of Import Competition
This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first show that import shocks affect employment and income, but only in areas where jobs ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (630), 1501 - 1540)
F16, I12, I18
12922 Denis Fougère
Nicolas Jacquemet
Policy Evaluation Using Causal Inference Methods
This chapter describes the main impact evaluation methods, both experimental and quasi-experimental, and the statistical model underlying them. Some of the most important methodological advances to ...
(published in: Nigar Hashimzade and Michael A. Thornton (eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Microeconomics, Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)
C1, C2, C3, C54
12921 Yael Goldfarb
Shoshana Neuman
Enhancing Employability by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Field Experiment among Israeli Ultra-Religious Women
Low employability among specific populations (e.g., religious/traditional women, the elderly, disabled workers, immigrants) has unfavorable consequences on the: unemployed individual, society, and ...
(published as 'Labour-Market Integration by Responding to Work Motives: Lessons from a Study of Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Women' in: Journal of Economics, Management and Religion, 2020, 1 (1))
D13, D91, I38, J08, J24, Z12
12920 Ekkehart Schlicht
VC - A Method For Estimating Time-Varying Coefficients in Linear Models
This paper describes a moments estimator for a standard state-space model with coefficients generated by a random walk. A penalized least squares estimation is linked to the GLS (Aitken) estimates of ...
(extended version published in: Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 2021)
C2, C22, C32, C51, C52
12919 Suparee Boonmanunt
Stephan Meier
The Effect of Financial Constraints on In-Group Bias: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Thailand
In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 207, 96-109.)
C93, D64, D91
12918 Asbjørn Goul Andersen
Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
Pension Reform and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off: Impacts of Removing an Early Retirement Subsidy
We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102050)
H55, D31, J22, J26
12917 Xi Chen
Chih Ming Tan
Xiaobo Zhang
Xin Zhang
The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Temperature Extremes on Birth Outcomes
This paper investigates the effects of prenatal exposure to extreme temperatures on birth outcomes – specifically, the log of birth weight and an indicator for low birth weight – using a nationally ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33, 1263 - 1302)
I15, Q54, Q51
12916 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Trends in Commuting Time of European Workers: A Cross-Country Analysis
This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors ...
(published in: Transport Policy, 2022, 116, 327 - 342)
R40, O57
12915 Christopher S. Carpenter
Dario Sansone
Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults
We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom ...
(published inh: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 79, 102492)
H20, H71, I12, I18
12914 Paul Redmond
Karina Doorley
Seamus McGuinness
The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income
We use distributional regression analysis to study the impact of a six percent increase in the Irish minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (3),1034 - 1056)
J31, J38, K31
12913 Nir Jaimovich
Itay Saporta-Eksten
Henry E. Siu
Yaniv Yedid-Levi
The Macroeconomics of Automation: Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis
The U.S. economy has experienced a significant drop in the fraction of the population employed in middle wage, "routine task-intensive" occupations. Applying machine learning techniques, we identify ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 122, 1-16)
E22, E24, J23, J24
12910 Oded Stark
Lukasz Byra
Grzegorz Kosiorowski
On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 187, 108880)
D31, D63, F22, O15, R23
12909 Bernard M. S. van Praag
J. Peter Hop
Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach
Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully-funded occupational pension systems, mandatory social security ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 1-31)
H55, H75, J1, J26
12907 Margaretha Buurman
Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Robin Zoutenbier
When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101858)
C93, I2, M5
12906 Luca Piccoli
Silvia Tiezzi
Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test
This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its derived demand equation is not empirically distinguishable from models with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102546)
C23, D03, D12
12905 Tommaso G. Reggiani
Rainer Michael Rilke
When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection
We analyze the effects of substitutability of social incentives on the labor supply of gigworkers (N=944) in a natural field experiment. In our treatments, we vary the proportion of the worker's wage ...
(revised version online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, 190, 553 - 568)
C93, D23, M52
12904 Samuel Berlinski
Maria Marta Ferreyra
Luca Flabbi
Juan David Martin
Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development
We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 2113–2177)
J13, J22, L1
12903 Felix Stips
Krisztina Kis-Katos
Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany
Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal ...
(published as 'The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.' in: PLOS One, 2020, 15 (8), e0236996)
F22, J61, R23
12900 Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza
The Cost of Being Too Patient
We study the cost of being too patient on happiness. We find that the relationship between patience and various measures of subjective well-being is hump-shaped: it exists an optimal amount of ...
(published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318)
A10, D9, Z1
12899 Charles Courtemanche
Joshua C. Pinkston
Jay Stewart
Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100940)
I10, C21
12897 Bin Huang
Xiaoyan He
Lei Xu
Yu Zhu
Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China
We explore recent policy changes which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the effect of access to quality education on house prices based on a unique dataset. ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2020, 50, 101730 )
R21, I28, H44
12894 Oded Galor
Ömer Özak
Assaf Sarid
Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation
This research establishes the influence of linguistic traits on human behavior. Exploiting variations in the languages spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020. 110, 309-313)
D91, I25, J16, J24, Z10, Z13
12893 Melisa Bubonya
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare
Our goal is to investigate the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations. We undertake a mediation analysis in which we not only calculate the intergenerational correlation in welfare, ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 80, 102066)
H53, I38, J62
12892 Henk-Wim de Boer
Egbert L. W. Jongen
Analysing Tax-Benefit Reforms in the Netherlands: Using Structural Models and Natural Experiments
We combine the strengths of structural models and natural experiments in the analysis of tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands. First we estimate structural discrete-choice models for labour supply. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (1), 179-209)
C25, C52, H31, J22
12891 Niklas Gohl
Peter Haan
Elisabeth Kurz
Felix Weinhardt
Working Life and Human Capital Investment: Causal Evidence from Pension Reform
This paper presents a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provides a novel empirical test of human capital theory. We exploit a sizable pension ...
(published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102426)
J24, J26, H21
12890 Andrea Brandolini
John Micklewright
Tony Atkinson's New Book, Measuring Poverty around the World: Some Further Reflections
A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press. We describe how we edited the incomplete manuscript that Atkinson left at his ...
(published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2019-20, XLIX, 1-12)
C80, I32
12889 Renato Faccini
Eran Yashiv
The Importance of Hiring Frictions in Business Cycles
Hiring is a costly activity reflecting firms' investment in their workers. Micro-data shows that hiring costs involve production disruption. Thus, cyclical fluctuations in the value of output, ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (3), 1101 - 1143)
E22, E24, E32, E52
12888 Karine Torosyan
Norberto Pignatti
Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071)
I31, J16, J21, J24
12887 Pavel Jelnov
Yoram Weiss
Influence in Economics and Aging
We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 101992)
J24
12886 Francesca Modena
Enrico Rettore
Giulia Tanzi
The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case
In this paper we evaluate the impact of need-based grants on university drop-out rates in the first year of enrollment, using student-level administrative data from all Italian universities in the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2020, 14 (3), 343 - 370)
I22, I23, C21, C35
12884 Seamus McGuinness
Paul Redmond
Judith M. Delaney
Minimum Wage Non-Compliance: Evidence from Ireland
We use a unique question from the Irish Labour Force Survey that captures the reasons for workers being paid below the minimum wage. Compared to existing work, this allows us to more precisely ...
(published as 'Minimum Wage Non-Compliance' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1663 - 1666)
J22, J23, J31, J32
12883 Joanna Tyrowicz
Siri Terjesen
Jakub Mazurek
All on Board? New Evidence on Board Gender Diversity from a Large Panel of Firms
Using a unique database of over 20 million firms over two decades, we examine the industry sector and national institution drivers of the prevalence of women directors on supervisory and management ...
(published in: European Management Journal, 2020, 38 (4), 634 - 645)
J7, P5
12882 James J. Heckman
Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited
This paper examines the case for randomized controlled trials in economics. I revisit my previous paper "Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation" and update its message. I present a brief summary ...
(published as 'Epilogue: Randomization and Social Policy Evaluation Revisited' in: Florent Bédécarrats, Isabelle Guérin, and François Roubaud (eds.), Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development: A Critical Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2020, 304 - 330)
C93
12880 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Katarina Katz
Torun Österberg
Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will ...
(published in: Poverty & Public Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 302 - 324.)
I38, J15, R23
12877 Xin Zhang
Yixuan Wang
Xi Chen
Xun Zhang
Prenatal Sunshine Exposure and Birth Outcomes in China
This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age ...
(published as 'Associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China' in: Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 713, 136472)
I12, J13, I18, Q51
12876 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Chunbei Wang
Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?
This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104242)
J12, J15, K37
12875 Bart Cockx
Michael Lechner
Joost Bollens
Priority to Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
We investigate heterogenous employment effects of Flemish training programmes. Based on administrative individual data, we analyse programme effects at various aggregation levels using Modified ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 80, 102306)
J68
12874 Hongjian Wang
Plamen Nikolov
Kevin Acker
The Wage Premium of Communist Party Membership: Evidence from China
Social status and political connections may confer large economic benefits on an individual. Previous studies focused on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2020, 25 (3), 309 - 338)
D31, J31, P2
12873 Binjian Yan
Xi Chen
Thomas M. Gill
Health Inequality among Chinese Older Adults: The Role of Childhood Circumstances
This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health ...
(published in: Journal of The Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100237)
I14, D63, I18, J13, J14
12872 Claudio Deiana
Ludovica Giua
Roberto Nistico
The Economics behind the Epidemic: Afghan Opium Price and Prescription Opioids in the US
We investigate the effect of variations in the price of opium in Afghanistan on per capita dispensation of prescription opioids in the US. Quarterly county-level data for 2003-2016 indicate that ...
(published as 'Opium Price Shocks and Prescription Opioids in the US' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (3), 449 - 484)
I11, I12, I18, L65
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