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16810 N. Meltem Daysal
William N. Evans
Mikkel Hasse Pedersen
Mircea Trandafir
Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients
We investigate the effects of radiation therapy on the mortality and economic outcomes of breast cancer patients.We implement a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-difference framework exploiting ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
I10, I14, I18, J20
16808 Daniela Del Boca
Chiara D. Pronzato
The Impact of a Multifaceted Program on Fragile Individuals. Evidence from an RCT in Italy
The increase in poverty rates among families and individuals in Italy over the past two decades can be attributed largely to repeated periods of economic crisis. Mounting concern over the problem has ...
(published in: Labour, 2024, 38 (4), 541-557)
J68, J24, I31, C93
16806 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Ronald A. Cueva
María E. Dávalos
Beyond the Usual: Understanding the Multidimensional Nature of Job Quality in Bolivia's Labor Market
Job quality can impact workers' productivity and contribute to societal well-being. To analyze the evolution of job quality in Bolivia, this paper employs Bolivian household survey data spanning 2007 ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2024, 45, 499–548)
J21, J26, J28, J81
16804 Axana Dalle
Elsy Verhofstadt
Stijn Baert
The Subsidy Trap: Explaining the Unsatisfactory Effectiveness of Hiring Subsidies for the Senior Unemployed
To extend the labour market participation of seniors, numerous countries provide subsidies to incentivise their recruitment or employment. Prior research demonstrates that the effectiveness of such ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 227, 106713)
J14, J38, J71
16802 Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
Osnat Israeli
Does a Tragic Event Affect Different Aspects of Attitudes toward Immigration?
Dramatic events can evoke feelings of compassion, fear, or threat, and can affect public opinion regarding controversial issues. Such an event was the drowning of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2025, 13 (1), mnae001)
F22, J15
16801 Rahi Abouk
Prabal K. De
Michael Pesko
Estimating the Effects of Tobacco-21 on Youth Tobacco Use and Sales
We examine the effect of raising the minimum legal sale age of tobacco to 21 (i.e., "T21"). We estimate difference-in-differences models using the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey data and Nielsen ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102860)
I12, I18
16800 Anna Adamecz
Matt Dickson
Nikki Shure
The Labour Market Returns to Graduation: Reconciling Administrative and Survey Data Estimates
This paper contributes to the literature on the earnings returns to university graduation. Recent evidence using administrative earnings data from England suggests a zero return to graduation for men ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 108, 102701)
I23, I26
16798 Simen Markussen
Maria Nareklishvili
Knut Røed
Overeducation and Economic Mobility
We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 103, 102595)
I21, I26, J24, J62
16797 David L. Dickinson
Sean P.A. Drummond
The Impact of Insufficient Sleep on the Serial Reproduction of Information
Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice, and message transmission. Insufficient sleep is known to affect relevant ...
(published in: SLEEP Advances, 2025, 6 (2), zpaf026)
C91, D90, D83
16793 Cara Ebert
Janina Isabel Steinert
Violence against Women and the Substitution of Help Services in Times of Lockdown: Triangulation of Three Data Sources in Germany
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws on three data sources: (1) longitudinal administrative data on the volume of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 232, 106879)
J12, J16, J18, I18
16792 Hai-Anh H Dang
Talip Kilic
Vladimir Hlasny
Kseniya Abanokova
Calogero Carletto
Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation to Fill Poverty Data Gaps at a Low Cost: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment
Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle-income countries. Based on a unique randomized survey experiment implemented in Tanzania, ...
(forthcoming in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025)
C15, I32, O15
16791 Lucas N. Garcez
María Padilla-Romo
Cecilia Peluffo
Mayra Pineda-Torres
Improvements in Schooling Opportunities and Teen Births
We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2025, 236, 107120)
I12, I21, I28, J13, J16
16789 Thierry Mayer
Hillel Rapoport
Camilo Umana-Dajud
Free Trade Agreements and the Movement of Business People
Using provisions to ease the movement of business visitors in trade agreements, we show that removing barriers to the movement of business people promotes trade. We document the increasing complexity ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 93–126)
F13, F22, F23
16788 Andrew Seltzer
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Setting: The Factories and Shops Act of Victoria (Australia), 1896-1913
The Victorian Factories and Shops Act of 1896, the second minimum wage law in the world, empowered administrative agencies ("Special Boards") to set trade-specific minimum rates based on age, sex, ...
(published online in: Economic History Review, 16 October 2024)
N47, N37, J88
16787 João Pereira
Raul Ramos
Pedro S. Martins
Wage Cyclicality and Labour Market Institutions
Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2025, 64, 598–615)
J31, J52
16786 Lachlan Hotchin
Andrew Leigh
Inequality and Market Concentration: New Evidence from Australia
Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well as inefficient? We explore this issue by analyzing the degree of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1216-1225)
D31, L12, L41
16784 Sadegh S. M. Eshaghnia
James J. Heckman
Rasmus Landersø
The Impact of the Level and Timing of Parental Resources on Child Development and Intergenerational Mobility
This study explores relationships between parental resource trajectories and child development, and their implications for intergenerational mobility. By modifying the child skill formation ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (S1), S269–S301)
I24, D31, I30
16779 Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper
Stephan L. Thomsen
Can Voluntary Adult Education Reduce Unemployment? Causal Evidence from East Germany after Reunification
After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market economy. At the time, upskilling through adult education was deemed essential ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 2 (2025) )
I21, J24, N34, P20, P36
16776 Jon Valant
Brigham Walker
Setting Priorities in School Choice Enrollment Systems: Who Benefits from Placement Algorithm Preferences?
Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed schools. This study explores whether the New Orleans placement algorithm favored ...
(published online as 'Setting Priorities in School Choice: How Placement Algorithms Affect Enrollment Patterns by Race and Family Income' in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 October 2025, 0124-13347R2)
I24, C78
16774 Michael French
Gulcin Gumus
Hit-and-Run or Hit-and-Stay? Unintended Effects of a Stricter BAC Limit
Although they comprise a relatively small subset of all traffic deaths, hit-and-run fatalities are both contemptible and preventable. We analyze longitudinal data from 1982-2008 to examine the ...
(revised version published in: Risk Analysis, 2024, 44 (8), 1931 - 1948)
H73, I12, I18
16767 Fabrice Kämpfen
Irene Mosca
Heterogeneous Effects of Blood Pressure Screening
This is the first study that investigates the heterogeneous effects of blood pressure (BP) screening on subsequent changes in BP in a high-income country. We use data from clinical health assessments ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 242, 11845)
C21, I12, I18
16764 Shutong Huo
Derek Feng
Thomas M. Gill
Xi Chen
Childhood Circumstances and Health of American and Chinese Older Adults: A Machine Learning Evaluation of Inequality of Opportunity in Health
Childhood circumstances may impact senior health, prompting this study to introduce novel machine learning methods to assess their individual and collective contributions to health inequality in old ...
(published in: China CDC Weekly, 2024, 6 (11), 213-218)
I14, J13, J14, O57, C53
16763 Yue Sun
Liqiu Zhao
Zhong Zhao
Hukou Status and Children's Education in China
Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou do not have equal rights to access education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73(2), 979-1021)
I24, I28, O15, R28
16760 Christian Bredemeier
Patrick Ndlovu
Suncica Vujic
Roland Winkler
Household Decisions and the Gender Gap in Job Satisfaction
This paper offers a novel theoretical explanation for the gender gap in job satisfaction, where women typically report higher job satisfaction than men. We argue that rational family decisions can ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 72 (1), e12403)
D13, J28, J16
16759 Henning Hermes
Philipp Lergetporer
Fabian Mierisch
Guido Schwerdt
Simon Wiederhold
Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106780, 2024)
I24, J18, J13, D83, C99
16757 Ive Marx
Basic Income Advocates, Sober Up.
Basic income advocates see a universal income grant, no questions asked, as bringing many potential benefits, not in the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is ...
(published in: Sarah Marchal and Ive Marx (eds.), Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All, Oxford University Press, 2024, 207–227 )
D31, H55, I38, C81
16756 Martha J. Bailey
Tanya Byker
Elena Patel
Shanthi Ramnath
The Long-Run Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act On Women's Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and U.S. Tax Data
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (1), 401–431)
J08, J16, J71
16748 Andrea Bassanini
Eve Caroli
Kevin Geay
Antoine Rebérioux
Heavy Is the Crown: CEOs' Social Interactions and Layoff Decisions
We develop a theory of non-monetary costs incurred by CEOs when deciding about layoffs and test its predictions on French data. Our results support the idea that, being embedded in their social ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (5), 1253–1270)
J63, M12, M51, R12
16743 Olivia Healy
Jennifer A. Heissel
Baby Bumps in the Road: The Impact of Parenthood on Job Performance, Human Capital, and Career Advancement
This paper explores whether and why a maternal "child penalty" to earnings would emerge even without changes in employment and hours worked. Using a matched event study design, we trace monthly ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 22 August 2024)
J24, J16, J18, J45
16742 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Anwen Zhang
The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces ...
(published as 'Human beauty illustrates the economic impact of heritable physical traits' in: PNAS, 2025, 122 (6), e24184241)
D64, D31, J71
16738 Hai-Anh H Dang
Dhushyanth Raju
Tomomi Tanaka
Kseniya Abanokova
Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17
Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, ...
(published as 'Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17: An Investigation Using Synthetic Panels' in: Scientific African, 2024, 25, e02282)
C15, D31, I31, O10, O57
16737 Teresa Molina
Yoon Y. Cho
The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs for Mental Health in Pandemic Times
When it comes to mental health, do social protection programs matter more in times of crisis? Using panel data from the Philippines around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study compares ...
(published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 21 February 2025)
I38, I31, H12
16733 Chi Shen
Xi Chen
Early Life Exposure to the Great Chinese Famine (1959–1961) and the Health of Older Adults in China: A Meta-Analysis (2008–2023)
There is mounting evidence indicating that the aging process initiates during early life stages, with in utero the individual's environment playing a significant role. Consequently, it is crucial to ...
(published in: China CDC Weekly, 2024, 6(11), 203-207)
I14, J14, J13, I18
16731 Maciej Jakubowski
Tomasz Gajderowicz
Harry Anthony Patrinos
COVID-19, School Closures, and Student Learning Outcomes: New Global Evidence from PISA
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on ...
(published in: Science of Learning, 2025, 10, 5 (2025))
I19, I20
16730 Eline Moens
Dyllis De Pessemier
Stijn Baert
How Do Recruiters Assess Applicants Who Express a Political Engagement?
Although unequal treatment of workers based on political affiliation is prohibited in many countries, it is conspicuously understudied in the discrimination literature. In this study, we set up a ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 86, 102637)
D72, J21, J71, P16, C91
16728 Jonathan Portes
Unintended Consequences? The Changing Composition of Immigration to the UK after Brexit
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent the most important changes to the UK migration system in half a century. Coinciding with the aftereffects ...
(published online in: National Institute Economic Review, 06 January 2025)
F22, J48, J61, J68
16727 Uwe Jirjahn
Corporate Globalization and Worker Representation
This chapter reviews research on the linkages between corporate globalization and worker representation. Studies have identified various transmission channels through which the activities of foreign ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2024)
F23, F66, J51, J52, J53, J83
16725 Torsten Santavirta
Jan Stuhler
Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility
Recent studies use names - first and surnames - to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (663), 2982–3016)
J62
16722 Etienne Lalé
Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata
We extend Nakamura et al. (2019, 2020)'s approach of using the publicly available microdata files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2024, 50 (2), 217-231)
E24, J21, J63
16719 Haiyuan Wan
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Yingfei Wang
Convergence of Inequality Dimensions in China: Income, Consumption, and Wealth from 1988 to 2018
Using household data from 1988 to 2018, we confirm that the increase in income inequality in China has come to a halt in recent years but show that inequality in wealth and consumption continues to ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1089-1115)
D31, I31, P52
16716 Susana Ferreira
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
Amaya Erro-Garcés
Measuring Job Risks When Hedonic Wage Models Do Not Do the Job
Hedonic wage regressions show little evidence that European workers facing larger job risks and other workplace disamenities receive higher wages. On the other hand, workers in more risky or ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025, 130, 103120)
Q51, I12, I18, J17, J31, K32
16715 Susana Ferreira
Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change: Economic Impacts and Adaptation Policies
This article reviews the literature on the economic impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate events to draw lessons on how societies can better manage these risks. While evidence ...
(published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2024, 16, 207-231 )
Q54, Q56, O13, O44, I30
16714 Achim Ahrens
Christian B. Hansen
Mark E Schaffer
Thomas Wiemann
Model Averaging and Double Machine Learning
This paper discusses pairing double/debiased machine learning (DDML) with stacking, a model averaging method for combining multiple candidate learners, to estimate structural parameters. We introduce ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2025, 40 (3), 249-269)
C21, C26, C52, C55, J01, J08
16713 Barbara Biasi
Julien Lafortune
David Schönholzer
What Works and for Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments across the U.S.
This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 18 February 2025)
H41, H75, I22, I24, R30, R53
16712 Kalena E. Cortes
Karen Kortecamp
Susanna Loeb
Carly D. Robinson
A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
This paper presents the results from a randomized controlled trial of Chapter One, an early elementary reading tutoring program that embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts ...
(published as 'A scalable approach to high-impact tutoring for young readers' in: Learning and Instruction, 2025, 95, 102021)
I20, I21, I24, I26
16707 Shanike J. Smart
Solomon Polachek
COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking
We assess whether the COVID-19 vaccine induces COVID-19 risky behavior (e.g., going to bars and restaurants) and thus reduces vaccine efficacy. A key empirical challenge is the endogeneity bias when ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 68, 25–49)
I1, I12, I13, I18
16706 Leila Ben Salem
Ridha Nouira
Christophe Rault
On the Impact of Oil Prices on Sectoral Inflation: Evidence from World's Top Oil Exporters and Importers
This paper investigates the impact of oil price variations on sectoral inflation for a sample of 10 top oil importing and exporting countries. Specifically, we analyze the effects of oil prices on ...
(published in: Journal of Energy and Development, 2023, 49 (1/2), 163-210 )
C5, Q4, Q43
16704 Andrew E. Clark
Rong Zhu
Taking Back Control? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Retirement on Locus of Control
We use nationally representative panel data from Australia to consider the impact of retirement on individual locus of control, a socio-emotional skill that has substantial explanatory power for a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134, 1465–1493)
H55, J24, J26
16703 Fabio Sabatini
The Behavioral, Economic, and Political Impact of the Internet and Social Media: Empirical Challenges and Approaches
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2025, 39 (3), 1000-1036)
D71, D72, D74, D83, L82, L86, L88, L96, L98, Z13
16702 Henk-Wim de Boer
Egbert L. W. Jongen
Patrick Koot
Too Much of a Good Thing? Using Tax Incentives to Stimulate Dual-Earner Couples
Following major tax-benet reforms over the past decades, the Netherlands is the international front-runner in stimulating dual-earner couples via the tax system. In this paper we consider whether or ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, Article 68 (2025))
C63, H21, H31
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