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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12870 Anne Ardila Brenře
Serena Canaan
Nikolaj Harmon
Heather Royer
Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?
Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families – that is, mothers, fathers, and their children – ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (4), 1135–1174)
H00, J2, J13
12869 Thomas Garcia
Sebastien Massoni
Marie Claire Villeval
Ambiguity and Excuse-Driven Behavior in Charitable Giving
A donation may have ambiguous costs or ambiguous benefits. Behavior in a laboratory experiment suggests that individuals use this ambiguity strategically as a moral wiggle room to act less generously ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020,124, 103412 )
C91, D64, D81
12868 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Monica Deza
Can Sanctuary Polices Reduce Domestic Violence?
Domestic violence remains a serious public problem, especially in Hispanic communities, where one in three women are victims of domestic violence in their lifetimes. Yet, less than 50 percent of ...
(published in: American Law and Economic Review, 2022, 24 (1), 116 - 170)
D1, I1, J1, K14
12867 Francesco Fallucchi
Daniele Nosenzo
Ernesto Reuben
Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions
We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants' agreement with the statement "Competition brings the best out of me", ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 402-423)
C91, D90, D91
12865 Eline Moens
Stijn Baert
Elsy Verhofstadt
Luc Van Ootegem
Does Loneliness Lurk in Temp Work? Exploring the Associations between Temporary Employment, Loneliness at Work and Job Satisfaction
This research contributes to the limited literature concerning the determinants of loneliness at work, as well as to the literature on psychological outcomes associated with temporary work. More ...
(revised version published in: Plos One, 2021, 16 (5), e0250664)
J28, J41, I31
12863 Stefan Bauernschuster
Ramona Rekers
Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 201, 104663)
H76, K42, R41
12862 Simon Amez
Suncica Vujic
Lieven De Marez
Stijn Baert
Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: First Evidence from Longitudinal Data
To study the causal impact of smartphone use on academic performance, we collected – for the first time worldwide – longitudinal data on students' smartphone use and educational performance. For ...
(revised version published in: New Media & Society, 2023, 25(3), 584-608.)
I23, J24
12861 Andreas Kuhn
Stefan C. Wolter
The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations among Adolescents
We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (1), 101-124)
J16, J24
12860 Anna Maria Mayda
Christopher Parsons
Han Pham
Pierre-Louis Vézina
Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 156, 102818)
F21, F22, F23
12858 Michalis Drouvelis
Bilal Malaeb
Michael Vlassopoulos
Jackline Wahba
Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.)
D91, J5, F22
12857 Pal Schone
Marte Strom
International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101983)
J21, J22, J61
12854 Enrico Bertacchini
Alessandra Venturini
Roberto Zotti
Drivers of Cultural Participation of Immigrants: Evidence from an Italian Survey
The paper aims to explore the drivers of immigrants' participation to cultural and leisure activities in host countries. First, we discuss how the main analytical approaches on cultural participation ...
(published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2022, 46, 57 - 100)
Z11, J15, J61
12853 Megan T. Stevenson
Jennifer Doleac
Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans
We evaluate the impacts of adopting algorithmic predictions of future offending (risk assessments) as an aid to judicial discretion in felony sentencing. We find that judges' decisions are influenced ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (4), 382–414)
K4
12851 Uwe Blien
Wolfgang Dauth
Duncan H.W. Roth
Occupational Routine-Intensity and the Costs of Job Loss: Evidence from Mass Layoffs
This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101953)
J24, J63 O33
12849 Hannah Van Borm
Ian Burn
Stijn Baert
What Does a Job Candidate's Age Signal to Employers?
Research has shown that hiring discrimination is a barrier for older job candidates in many OECD countries. However, little research has delved into why older job candidates are discriminated ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102003)
J71, J14, J24, J23
12847 Semih Tumen
Hakan Ulucan
Empowered or Impoverished: The Impact of Panic Buttons on Domestic Violence
This paper estimates the causal effect of a targeted panic button program–implemented in two Turkish provinces between 2012 and 2016–on domestic violence against women. Diff-in-diff and synthetic ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, 1423–1459)
J12, J16, K36
12846 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
The Effect of High School Rank in English and Math on College Major Choice
Using unique data on preference rankings for all high school students who apply for college in Ireland, we investigate whether, conditional on absolute achievement, within school-cohort rank in ...
(published as 'High School Rank in Math and English and the Gender Gap in STEM' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101969)
I2, J1
12845 Damian Clarke
Joseph P. Romano
Michael Wolf
The Romano-Wolf Multiple Hypothesis Correction in Stata
When considering multiple hypothesis tests simultaneously, standard statistical techniques will lead to over-rejection of null hypotheses unless the multiplicity of the testing framework is ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2020, 13 (4), 812-843)
C12, C15, C63, C87
12844 Insan Tunali
Murat Güray Kirdar
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur
Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013
We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use ...
(published as 'Down and up the 'U' - A synthetic cohort (panel) analysis of female labor force participation in Turkey, 1988-2013' in: World Development, 2021, 146, 105609 )
J21, C18
12843 Xi Chen
Lipeng Hu
Jody L. Sindelar
Leaving Money on the Table? Suboptimal Enrollment in the New Social Pension Program in China
China's recently implemented New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest social pension program in the world, was designed to provide financial protection for its rural population and reduce ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 15, 100233)
J14, J18, R23, R28
12842 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Helen Levy
Robert G. Valletta
Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed
We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act – the expansion of Medicaid eligibility – affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S575–S617)
J64, J68, I13, I18
12841 Michael Leith Cowling
Mark Wooden
Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?
This paper examines the extent to which solo self-employment serves as a vehicle for job creation. Using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101942)
L26
12837 Maya Rossin-Slater
Molly Schnell
Hannes Schwandt
Sam Trejo
Lindsey Uniat
Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use
While over 240,000 American students experienced a school shooting in the last two decades, little is known about the impacts of these events on the mental health of surviving youth. Using ...
(published in: PNAS, 2020, 117 (38), 23484 - 23489)
I18, J13
12836 Kyle Herkenhoff
Gajendran Raveendranathan
Who Bears the Welfare Costs of Monopoly? The Case of the Credit Card Industry
How are the welfare costs from monopoly distributed across U.S. households? We answer this question for the U.S. credit card industry, which is highly concentrated, charges interest rates that are ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, rdae098, 24 October 2024)
D14, D43, D60, E21, E44, G21
12835 Gerard J. van den Berg
Iris Kesternich
Gerrit Müller
Bettina M. Siflinger
Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with "sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106706)
J16, J24, N44, D90, J64
12834 Paul McNamee
Silvia Mendolia
Oleg Yerokhin
Social Media Extensive Use and Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes in Adolescence: Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
We investigate the relationship between social media use and emotional and behavioural outcomes in adolescence using data from a large and detailed longitudinal study of teenagers from the UK. To the ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100992)
I10
12833 Tatiana Abboud
Andriana Bellou
Joshua Lewis
The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent binge drinking on later- life health and labor market outcomes. Our analysis exploits cross-state variation in the rollout of "Zero ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 231, 105066)
I18, I12, J20
12832 Haiyang Lu
Peng Nie
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
The Effect of Parental Educational Expectations on Adolescent Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Perceived Academic Pressure: Longitudinal Evidence for China
Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child ...
(published in: Child Indicators Research, 2021, 14, 117–137.)
I21, I30, J13
12831 Lucas Ronconi
Ravi Kanbur
Santiago López-Cariboni
Who Demands Labour (De)Regulation in the Developing World? Insider–Outsider Theory Revisited
Contrary to the predictions of the insider–outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2023, 162 (2), 223-243)
J4, J8, O17
12829 José J. Escarce
Lorenzo Rocco
Effect of Immigration on Depression among Older Natives in Western Europe
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021, 20, 100341)
I12, I14, J61
12828 Silvia Lübbecke
Wendelin Schnedler
Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship
Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem – although doing so ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (2), 420-438)
C91, D82, D91
12827 Michael R.M. Abrigo
Timothy J. Halliday
Teresa Molina
Expanding Health Insurance for the Elderly of the Philippines
This paper evaluates a Filipino policy that expanded health insurance coverage of its senior citizens, aged 60 and older, in 2014. Using regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37(3), 500-520)
I10, I13, I14
12826 Anna Adamecz
Morag Henderson
Nikki Shure
Is 'First in Family' a Good Indicator for Widening University Participation?
Universities use 'first in family' or 'first generation' as an indicator to increase the diversity of their student intake, but little is known about whether it is a good indicator of disadvantage. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102038.)
I23, I24, J24
12825 Jennifer Roberts
Karl Taylor
New Evidence on Disability Benefit Claims in the UK: The Role of Health and the Local Labour Market
During the 1980s and 1990s there was a steep rise in disability benefit claims in the UK, especially among older male workers, and the debate centred on the relative generosity of these benefits as ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89, 131-169)
I12, I38, J23
12822 Hai-Anh H Dang
Paolo Verme
Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations: Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?
The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 653 - 679)
C15, I32, J15, J61, O15
12820 Massimo Anelli
Osea Giuntella
Luca Stella
Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior
Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production at an unprecedented pace, with little scope for human capital adjustments. This has affected the job ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 128 (6), 2188–2244)
J12, J13, J21, J23, J24
12819 D. Mark Anderson
Kyutaro Matsuzawa
Joseph J. Sabia
Marriage Equality Laws and Youth Mental Health
Since the landmark ruling in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health in 2004, the legalization of same-sex marriage (SSM) has proliferated throughout the United States via either legislative action ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2021, 64 (1), 29-51.)
I18, I12
12818 Francesco Amodio
Giorgio Chiovelli
Sebastian Hohmann
The Employment Effects of Ethnic Politics
This paper studies the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. We combine geo-referenced data from 15 countries, 32 parliamentary elections, 62 political parties, 243 ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (2), 456–491)
J15, J70, O10, P26, Q15
12817 Luca Corazzini
Christopher Cotton
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Delegation and Coordination with Multiple Threshold Public Goods: Experimental Evidence
When multiple charities, social programs and community projects simultaneously vie for funding, donors risk miscoordinating their contributions leading to an inefficient distribution of funding ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (4), 1030-1068)
C91, C92, H40, H41, L31
12816 Elona Harka
Lorenzo Rocco
Studying More to Vote Less: Education and Voter Turnout in Italy
We use Italian municipality data on education and voter participation in national elections to estimate the effect of schooling on voter turnout. By adopting a fixed effect instrumental variable ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 72, 102115)
I20, I26, D72
12815 Elizabeth Bradley
Xi Chen
Gaojie Tang
Social Security Expansion and Neighborhood Cohesion: Evidence from Community-Living Older Adults in China
Grants and services provided by the government may crowd out informal arrangements, thus weakening informal caring relations and networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of social security ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 15, 100235)
H55, I38, O22
12814 Hai-Anh H Dang
Masako Hiraga
Cuong Viet Nguyen
Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and the few recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to ...
(published in: World Development, 2022, 159, 106022)
J13, J16, J22, H42, O0
12813 Catia Batista
Pedro C. Vicente
Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 129, 104905)
D14, D85, Q12, Q14
12812 Guy Lacroix
Francois Laliberté-Auger
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Daniel Parent
The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality: Evidence from Canada
We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2021, 30 (S1), 105 - 118)
I26, I28, J1
12811 Stephen P. Jenkins
Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (3), 547- 563 )
D31, D63, I31
12810 Stephen P. Jenkins
Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being
How to undertake distributional comparisons when personal well-being is measured using income is well-established. But what if personal well-being is measured using subjective well-being indicators ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2020, 54 (3), 211-238 )
D31, D63, I31
12809 Thomas Breda
Alex Bryson
John Forth
Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry
Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Inquiry)
J5, L1, L2, L3
12807 Jonathan F. Schulz
Uwe Sunde
Petra Thiemann
Christian Thöni
Selection into Experiments: Evidence from a Population of Students
This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 98, 101871)
C93, D64, H41, L3
12806 Marianna Belloc
Paolo Naticchioni
Claudia Vittori
Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining
In this paper, we estimate nominal and real (in temporal and spatial terms) urban wage premia (UWP) in Italy, with its economy characterized by the interplay between collective wage bargaining and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (1), 25–50.)
R12, R31, J31
12804 Yi Fan
Junjian Yi
Junsen Zhang
Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (1), 202 - 230)
E24, J62, O15
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