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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12583 Oded Stark
Lukasz Byra
Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?
Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2020, 183, 29 - 41)
D81, E21, F22, J61, J78
12582 Anne Ardila Brenře
Ulf Zölitz
Exposure to More Female Peers Widens the Gender Gap in STEM Participation
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1009-1054)
I21, J16, J31
12579 Idriss Fontaine
Ismael Galvez-Iniesta
Pedro Maia Gomes
Diego Vila-Martin
Labour Market Flows: Accounting for the Public Sector
For the period between 2003 and 2018, we document a number of facts about worker gross flows in France, the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States, focussing on the role of the public sector. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101770)
E24, E32, J21, J45, J60
12576 Daniel L. Millimet
Christopher F. Parmeter
Accounting for Skewed or One-Sided Measurement Error in the Dependent Variable
While classical measurement error in the dependent variable in a linear regression framework results only in a loss of precision, non-classical measurement error can lead to estimates which are ...
(published in: Political Analysis, 2022, 30, 66-88)
C18, C51
12574 Gregor Jarosch
Jan Sebastian Nimczik
Isaac Sorkin
Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages
We build a model where firm size is a source of labor market power. The key mechanism is that a granular employer can eliminate its own vacancies from a worker's outside option in the wage bargain. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (6), 3569 - 3607)
J31, J42
12573 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Tho Pham
Oleksandr Talavera
Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing
This paper aims to quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006- 2012 period. The results ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 95, 228 - 254)
I23, O39
12571 Janice Compton
Robert Pollak
The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses
Comparisons of individual life expectancies over time and across demographic groups provide information for individuals making retirement decisions and for policy makers. For couples, analogous ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2021, 16, e0250564)
J1
12570 John Chiwuzulum Odozi
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare
Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of African Development, 2026)
I10, I30, O1, D74
12568 Elisabetta De Cao
Barry McCormick
Catia Nicodemo
Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 83, 102601.)
E24, I10, I12, J13
12565 Ansgar H. Belke
Ulrich Volz
The Yen Exchange Rate and the Hollowing Out of the Japanese Industry
Since the demise of the Bretton Woods system, the yen has seen several episodes of strong appreciation, including in the late 1970s, after the 1985 Plaza Agreement, the early and late 1990s and after ...
(published in: Open Economic Review, 2020, 31, 371 - 406)
F31, O14
12564 Ansgar H. Belke
Clemens Domnick
Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2021, 29 (3), 573 - 589)
F14, F15, F21, F41
12563 Nicola Barban
Elisabetta De Cao
Sonia Oreffice
Climent Quintana-Domeque
Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment
We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of education on spousal education: A genetic approach' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 71, 102023)
C36, D1, J1, J12
12562 Eva Sierminska
Jacques Silber
The Diversity of Household Assets Holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: Measurement and Determinants
We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the distribution of individual asset holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009. We examine ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 599 - 634)
D14
12556 Quinn Keefer
Thomas J. Kniesner
Running the Risk of an Injury in the NFL: Short-Run and Career Consequences
Similar to other workers in industrial settings NFL running backs can choose to provide additional work effort with possible negative health consequences. We find that the most informative measure ...
(published as 'Performance and Pay in Professional Football' in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2022, 12 (4), 269-343.)
Z21, Z22, C23
12555 Chunbei Wang
Magnus Lofstrom
September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants
Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 5 - 33)
J15, L26
12554 Jaime Arellano-Bover
Displacement, Diversity, and Mobility: Career Impacts of Japanese American Internment
One of the largest population displacement episodes in the U.S. took place in 1942, when over 110,000 persons of Japanese origin living on the West Coast were forcibly sent away to ten internment ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2022, 82 (1), 126-174)
J61, J62, N32, O15
12553 Maria Bigoni
Stefania Bortolotti
Efşan Nas Özen
Economic Polarization and Antisocial Behavior: An Experiment
Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a situation where only the rich can reduce inequality while the poor can express ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, 126, 387 - 401)
C91, D63, D83, D84, D91
12552 Mark Borgschulte
Jacob Vogler
Did the ACA Medicaid Expansion Save Lives?
We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years following expansion. We find a reduction in all-cause mortality in ages 20 to 64 ...
(published in Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102333)
H75, I13, I14, I18, I38
12551 Daniel Masterson
Vasil Yasenov
Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban
Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073)
F22, J15, K42
12550 Asadul Islam
Wang-Sheng Lee
Aaron Nicholas
The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Field Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 150, 102615)
C93, D80, I21
12549 Marco Leonardi
Rossella Mossucca
Fabiano Schivardi
Battista Severgnini
Gains from Early Support of a New Political Party
We study the potential benefits and mechanisms of firms' political connections by analyzing the Italian experience, where, in the early nineties, Silvio Berlusconi, a rich TV tycoon, became the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190; 878 - 890)
G32, G38, D72
12548 Michal Kurlaender
Lester Lusher
Matthew Case
Is Early Start a Better Start? Evaluating California State University's Early Start Remediation Policy
Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (2), 348 - 375)
I20, I23, I28
12547 Paul Dolan
Georgios Kavetsos
Christian Krekel
Dimitris Mavridis
Renuka Metcalfe
Claudia Senik
Stefan Szymanski
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177, 104043)
I30, I31, I38, L83, Z20, Z28
12545 Nico Pestel
Florian Wozny
Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals
This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing Low Emission Zones. For identification, we exploit variation in the timing and ...
(revised version published as 'Health Effects of Low Emission Zones: Evidence from German Hospitals' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 2021, 102512)
I18, Q52, Q53
12544 Stephanie von Hinke
Nigel Rice
Emma Tominey
Mental Health around Pregnancy and Child Development from Early Childhood to Adolescence
We identify the causal effect of mothers' mental health during early - and soon after pregnancy on a range of child psychological, socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes measured between ages 4-16. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102253)
I12, I14, I3
12542 Randolph Luca Bruno
Elodie Douarin
Julia Korosteleva
Slavo Radosevic
Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective
The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing sectors (computers, chemicals, basic metals and food) of strong macroeconomic ...
(published as 'The Two Disjointed Faces of R&D and the Productivity Gap in Europe' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2022, 60 (3), 580 - 603)
L60, O33, C55
12541 Seamus McGuinness
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Paul Redmond
Skills-Displacing Technological Change and Its Impact on Jobs: Challenging Technological Alarmism?
We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2023, 32 (3), 370-392 )
J24, O33, O31
12540 Michael Kosfeld
The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy
I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are ...
(published in: Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101292)
C90, D90, M5
12539 Jiafei Hu
Rigissa Megalokonomou
Haishan Yuan
How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California
To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 672-687)
O15, O18, P16, H54
12538 Nicholas Lawson
Dean Spears
Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Three important features of Indian labor markets enduringly coexist: rent-seeking, occupational immobility, and caste. These facts are puzzling, given theories that predict static, equilibrium social ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 107–140.)
O15, J71, J24, J47
12537 Dean Spears
The Asymmetry of Population Ethics: Experimental Social Choice and Dual-Process Moral Reasoning
Population ethics is widely considered to be exceptionally important and exceptionally difficult. One key source of difficulty is the conflict between certain moral intuitions and analytical results ...
(published in: Economics and Philosophy, 2020, 36 (3), 435-454)
J10, J13, J18, D63
12536 Martin Guzi
Peter Huber
Stepan Mikula
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration. This event involved expulsion of ethnic Germans and almost complete depopulation of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 12536 )
N44, Z10, R23, J15
12535 Stephen L. Cheung
Eliciting Utility Curvature in Time Preference
This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount rates in experimental data. To do so, it introduces a novel design to elicit time ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 493-525)
C91, D01, D90
12534 Matthew J. Lindquist
Yves Zenou
Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons
Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide practical guidance for the design of crime prevention policies. To illustrate ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771)
A14, K42, Z13
12533 Lingučre Mously Mbaye
Massimiliano Tani
Migration, Innovation, and Growth: An African Story?
This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period ...
(published in: M. Konte and L.M.Mbaye (eds.), Migration, Remittances and Sustainable Development in Africa, London, Routledge, 2020, chapter 3, 38-61)
J61, O15, O33
12532 Plamen Nikolov
Alan Adelman
Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100204)
D64, O15, O16, J14, J22, H55, R2
12530 Lídia Farré
Francesc Ortega
Selecting Talent: Gender Differences in Participation and Success in Competitive Selection Processes
We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious graduate fellowship program. All applications are scored remotely by expert reviewers ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1881-1913)
J3, J7
12529 Bernd Fitzenberger
Arnim Seidlitz
The 2011 Break in the Part-Time Indicator and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Germany
German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2020, 54, 1(2020))
J60, J31, C80
12527 Michael White
Alex Bryson
The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely ...
(published in: Labour, 2024, 38 (1), 102-121)
I31, J45, M5
12526 Daniel Goller
Michael Lechner
Andreas Moczall
Joachim Wolff
Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed
Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855)
J68, C21
12524 Plamen Nikolov
Alan Adelman
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Higher life expectancy and rapidly aging populations have led to the introduction of pension programs in developing countries in the last two decades. Using the introduction of a new public policy in ...
(updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).)
J14, H55, H75, J26, J24, D91, O12, N35, O10
12522 Lukas Kiessling
Pia Pinger
Philipp K. Seegers
Jan Bergerhoff
Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 12522 )
D81, D84, I21, I23, J13, J30
12521 Krishna Regmi
Daniel J. Henderson
Labor Demand Shocks at Birth and Cognitive Achievement during Childhood
As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101917)
J20, J21, I20, I30
12519 Paul Dolan
Grace Lordan
Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045)
D31, D63, I1,I14, J60
12518 Oded Stark
Krzysztof Szczygielski
The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions
We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229)
D21, D81, G32
12517 Michael White
Alex Bryson
High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076 )
J45, M5
12516 Shuai Chen
Jan C. van Ours
Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.)
D78, J12, J15, J16, K36
12515 Fabio Berton
Stefano Dughera
Andrea Ricci
Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have ...
(published as 'A simple model of holdup, union voice, and firm investments' in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo and G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace productivity and management practices (Research in Labor Economics, 49), 2021, 67 - 84)
J51, O31, O32
12514 Nusrat Abedin Jimi
Plamen Nikolov
Mohammad Abdul Malek
Subal C. Kumbhakar
The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55)
E22, H81, Q12, D2, O12, O16
12513 Christian Grund
Christine Harbring
Kirsten Thommes
Katja Rebecca Tilkes
Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment
We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare ...
(published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61 )
C9, M5
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