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12243 Michael Johannes Böhm
Christian Siegel
Make Yourselves Scarce: The Effect of Demographic Change on the Relative Wages and Employment Rates of Experienced Workers
We argue that rising supply of experience not only reduces experienced workers' relative wages but also their relative labor market participation. From a theoretical model we derive predictions which ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2021, 62 (4), 1537 - 1568)
J11, J21, J31
12242 Frank M. Fossen
Alina Sorgner
New Digital Technologies and Heterogeneous Employment and Wage Dynamics in the United States: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics in the U.S. labor market in the period from 2011-2018. We employ three measures ...
(revised version published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022, 175, 121381)
J22, J23, O33
12241 Emma Gorman
Colm P. Harmon
Silvia Mendolia
Anita Staneva
Ian Walker
The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes
We use rich data on a cohort of English adolescents to analyse the long-term effects of experiencing bullying victimisation in junior high school. The data contain self-reports of five types of ...
(published as 'Adolescent School Bullying Victimization and Later Life Outcomes' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 1048 - 1076)
I21, I24, I26, J24
12240 Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
Livia Menezes
Violence and Human Capital Investments
In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (3), 787 - 823.)
I25, K42, O12
12239 Jeffrey T. Denning
Todd R. Jones
Maxed Out? The Effect of Larger Student Loan Limits on Borrowing and Education Outcomes
Despite large and growing student loan balances, there is relatively little evidence on the effects of access to student loans on borrowing and educational outcomes. We examine the effect of access ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (4), 1113-1140)
I22, D14
12238 Harry Anthony Patrinos
George Psacharopoulos
Aysit Tansel
Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (14), 1638-1658.)
I21, I26, J24
12237 José António Cabral Vieira
Carolina Constância
João Teixeira
Education and Risk Compensation in Wages: A Quantile Regression Approach
This paper examines the effect of wage variation on individual wages. The results reveal that wage variation by educational classifications positively affects wages, while the skewness has a negative ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (3), 194 - 198.)
J31, J33
12236 Martin Biewen
Jakob Schwerter
Does More Math in High School Increase the Share of Female STEM Workers? Evidence from a Curriculum Reform
This paper studies the consequences of a curriculum reform of the last two years of high school in one of the German federal states on the share of male and female students who complete degrees in ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 54 (16), 1889–1911)
I23, J16, J24
12235 Semih Tumen
Refugees and 'Native Flight' from Public to Private Schools
Native children switch from public to private primary schools in response to increased refugee concentration in the Turkish public education system. 10 percentage-point increase in ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 181, 154-159)
I21, I24, H52
12234 Uwe Jirjahn
Cornelia Struewing
Out-Of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This ...
(revised version by Uwe Jirjahn and Cornelia Chadi published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (3), 853-881)
J12, J13, P20
12233 Anuj Gangopadhyaya
Fredric Blavin
Jason Gates
Breno Braga
Credit Where It's Due: Investigating Pathways from EITC Expansion to Maternal Mental Health
While Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions are typically associated with improvements in maternal mental health, little is known about the mechanisms through which the program affects this ...
(published in: Health Economics 29, no. 9, 2020)
H24, I12, I14
12232 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
Tianyi Wang
The Phenomenon of Summer Diarrhea and Its Waning, 1910-1930
During the first two decades of the 20th century, diarrheal deaths among American infants and children surged every summer. Although we still do not know what pathogen (or pathogens) caused this ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 78, 101341.)
I10, I18, N3, Q54
12231 Armando N. Meier
Reto Odermatt
Alois Stutzer
Tobacco Sales Prohibition and Teen Smoking
We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the staggered introduction of sales bans across Switzerland and the European Union from ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 188, 998-1014)
D12, I12, I18, K42
12229 Horst Entorf
Martin Lange
Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany
In this article, we examine anti-foreigner hate crime in the wake of the large influx of asylum seekers to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting the quasi-experimental assignment of asylum seekers ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 101, 103913)
J15, R23, K42
12226 Giorgio Brunello
Elisabetta Lodigiani
Lorenzo Rocco
Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find that an increase of the local supply of low skilled immigrants by one thousand ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, 85, 103582)
J61
12225 Patrick Button
Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives
I estimate the impacts of recently-popular U.S. state film incentives on filming location, film industry employment, wages, and establishments, and spillover impacts on related industries. I compile ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339. )
H25, H71, R38, L82, Z11
12223 Benjamin Davies
David C. Maré
Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment shares, and use this measure to estimate city and activity complexity. Our ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2021, 55 (3), 479-494)
R11, R12
12222 Michal Myck
Mateusz Najsztub
Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development
On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (4), 559–579)
P30, R11, R50
12221 Marek Góra
Edward Palmer
NDC: The Generic Old-Age Pension Scheme
This chapter defines a universal public pension scheme (UPPS) as a government-mandated lifecycle longevity insurance scheme that transfers individual consumption from the working years to the ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann, Edward Palmer, Robert Palacios, and Stefano Sacchi (eds.), Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Pension, Vol. 1, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, Washington DC, 2020, 167 - 188)
D6, D62, D81, E62, G22, G28, H23, H55, J14, J18
12218 Wim Naudé
The Race against the Robots and the Fallacy of the Giant Cheesecake: Immediate and Imagined Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
After a number of AI-winters, AI is back with a boom. There are concerns that it will disrupt society. The immediate concern is whether labor can win a 'race against the robots' and the longer-term ...
(published as 'Artificial intelligence: neither Utopian nor apocalyptic impacts soon' in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2021, 30 (1), 1-23.)
O47, O33, J24, E21, E25
12217 Elisabeth Grewenig
Katharina Werner
Ludger Woessmann
Philipp Lergetporer
Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs: Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments
A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 304-326)
D83, C83, C90
12216 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Trust and Workplace Performance
This study explores the relationship between trust and establishment performance. The outcome indicators are management's assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.)
J50
12214 Iga Magda
Jan Gromadzki
Simone Moriconi
Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 499 - 552 )
D22, J31, J40
12213 Max Nathan
Anna Rosso
Innovative Events
We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative activity. We combine UK administrative microdata, media and website content to ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (1), 104373)
C55, L86, O81
12212 Quentin Lippmann
Alexandre Georgieff
Claudia Senik
Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (629), 1445 - 1470)
D13, I31, J16, P51, Z1
12211 Danula K. Gamage
Almudena Sevilla
Gender Equality and Positive Action: Evidence from UK Universities
This paper examines the impact of the Athena Scientific Women's Academic Network (SWAN) Charter on the wages and employment trajectories of female faculty. The Athena SWAN Charter is a gender ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 105–109)
I23, J16, J31, J44
12209 Michele Di Maio
Roberto Nistico
The Effect of Parental Job Loss on Child School Dropout: Evidence from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
We study the effect of parental job loss on child school dropout in developing countries. We focus on Palestinian households living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and having the household ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102375)
H56, I20, J63
12205 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua Angrist
Yusuke Narita
Parag A. Pathak
Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design
Centralized school assignment algorithms must distinguish between applicants with the same preferences and priorities. This is done with randomly assigned lottery numbers, nonlottery tie-breakers ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2022, 90 (1), 117–151)
I21, C78, C13, C18, C21, C26
12204 Paul N. Thompson
Effects of Four-Day School Weeks on Student Achievement: Evidence from Oregon
Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these ...
(published as 'Is four less than five? Effects of four-day school weeks on student achievement in Oregon' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104308)
I21
12203 Adam M. Lavecchia
Philip Oreopoulos
Robert S. Brown
Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support: Evidence from Pathways to Education
We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2020, 2 (2), 209–224)
I2, I26, I28, J18
12202 Arnaud Chevalier
Ingo E. Isphording
Elena Lisauskaite
Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices
We study the effect of ethno-linguistic classroom composition in college on educational performance, educational choices and post-graduation migration in a setting of quasi-random assignment to ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101833)
I21, I24, J15
12201 Alberto Jacinto
Seth Gershenson
The Intergenerational Transmission of Teaching
Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic ...
(published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2021, 58 (3), 635-672. )
I20, J62, J45
12200 Michela Braga
Daniele Checchi
Christelle Garrouste
Francesco Scervini
Selecting or Rewarding Teachers? International Evidence from Primary Schools
Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 76, 101986)
H52, I21, I28, J44
12199 Beyza Ural Marchand
Inequality and Trade Policy: Pro-Poor Bias of Contemporary Trade Restrictions
This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65, 123-152.​​​​ )
D31, F14, I30, O12
12198 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry Kangoye
Networks, Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurial Performance in Africa: Evidence from Eswatini
This paper analyzes the role of networks in access of women entrepreneurs to start-up capital and firm performance in Eswatini, a country with one of the highest female unemployment rates in Africa. ...
(published in: A. Bullough, D. Hechavarria, C. Brush and L. Edelman (eds.), Programs, Policies, & Practices: Fostering High-Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019)
L53, O12
12193 Marco Bertoni
Luca Corazzini
Silvana Robone
Promoting Breast Cancer Screening Take-Ups with Zero Cost: Evidence from an Experiment on Formatting Invitation Letters in Italy
We ran a randomized field experiment to ascertain whether a costless manipulation of the informational content (restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 372-409.)
C93, H51, I11, I18
12192 Neil Davies
Matt Dickson
George Davey Smith
Frank Windmeijer
Gerard J. van den Berg
The Causal Effects of Education on Adult Health, Mortality and Income: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and the Raising of the School Leaving Age
We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2023, 52 (6), 1878–1886,)
H52, I12, I21, I28
12191 Ulrich Kaiser
Johan Moritz Kuhn
Who Founds? An Analysis of University and Corporate Startup Entrepreneurs Based on Danish Register Data
We compare individuals presently employed either at an university or at a firm from a R&D intensive sector and analyze which of their personal-specific and employer-specific characteristics determine ...
(published as 'Spin doctors vs the spawn of capitalism: Who founds university and corporate startups?' in: Research Policy, 2021, 50 (10), 104347 (with Alex Coad))
L26, I23, O31, O32
12190 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Mee Jung Kim
Kyung Min Lee
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms ...
(published in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 149-172. )
F22, J15, J60, J61, L26, O15, O30, O31, O32
12186 Resul Cesur
Pinar Mine Gunes
Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker
Socialized Healthcare and Women's Fertility Decisions
This paper examines the effect of a nationwide healthcare reform implemented in Turkey on women's fertility decisions. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), introduced in 2005, provided a wide-range of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (3), 1028-1055; )
I13, J13
12185 Ingvild Almås
Andreas Kotsadam
Espen R. Moen
Knut Røed
The Economics of Hypergamy
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important consequences for individuals, families, and society. Hypergamy occurs when a husband’s earning capacity systematically exceeds ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 260-281)
J12, D10, J22
12184 Rudolf Kerschbamer
Daniel Neururer
Matthias Sutter
Credence Goods Markets and the Informational Value of New Media: A Natural Field Experiment
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is ...
(extended version published as 'Credence goods markets, online information and repair prices: A natural field experiment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104891 )
C93, D82
12183 Stijn Baert
Brecht Neyt
Thomas Siedler
Ilse Tobback
Dieter Verhaest
Student Internships and Employment Opportunities after Graduation: A Field Experiment
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 83, 102141)
C93, I21, J23, J24
12182 Alison L. Booth
Jungmin Lee
Girls' and Boys' Performance in Competitions: What We Can Learn from a Korean Quiz Show
We compare the performance of high-ability adolescent girls and boys who participated in a a long-running Korean television quiz show. We find there is a gender gap in performance – in favour of boys ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 187, 431-447. )
J16, I21, D9, L83, M5
12181 René Böheim
Thomas Leoni
Absenteeism on Bridging Days
We estimate sickness absences on Mondays and Fridays which fall between a weekend and public holidays, so called "bridging days". Many public holidays change their day of the week over the years. We ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1667–1671)
J22
12178 Karen Clay
Margarita Portnykh
Edson Severnini
The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and Its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States
Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 33, 181-192)
N52, Q53, Q56, R11, I15, I18, I25, I28
12177 Karen Clay
Joshua Lewis
Edson Severnini
What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities
Disparities in cross-city pandemic severity during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic remain poorly understood. This paper uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 36, 42-50)
N32, N52, N72, Q40, Q53, O13
12176 Judith M. Delaney
Paul J. Devereux
It's Not Just for Boys! Understanding Gender Differences in STEM
While education levels of women have increased dramatically relative to men, women are still greatly underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) college programmes. ...
(published as 'Understanding Gender Differences in STEM: Evidence from College Applications' in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 219-238)
J16, I2
12175 Philipp Lergetporer
Ludger Woessmann
The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition
Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey ...
(now IZA Discussion Papers 14386 and 14991)
I22, H52, D72, D83
12174 Kareem Haggag
Richard Patterson
Nolan G. Pope
Aaron Feudo
Attribution Bias in Major Decisions: Evidence from the United States Military Academy
Using administrative data, we study the role of attribution bias in a high-stakes, consequential decision: the choice of a college major. Specifically, we examine the influence of fatigue experienced ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104445)
D91, I23, J24
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