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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11882 Sarah Bana
Kelly Bedard
Maya Rossin-Slater
Jenna Stearns
Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
California's Disability Insurance (DI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs have become important sources of social insurance, with benefit payments now exceeding those of the state's Unemployment ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 633 - 660)
J31, J32, J38
11881 Lucia Mangiavacchi
Luca Piccoli
Chiara Rapallini
Personality Traits and Household Consumption Choices
In this paper, we test whether consumption choices are affected by personality traits and whether this impact is different for singles and individuals living in couples. To fulfill this aim, we test ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 2021, 21 (2), 433-468 )
D12, J16, I31
11880 Alexander Konon
Alexander S. Kritikos
Prediction Based on Entrepreneurship-Prone Personality Profiles: Sometimes Worse Than the Toss of a Coin
The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (1), 1-20)
C15, D81, L26
11879 Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Does Health Insurance Make People Happier? Evidence from Massachusetts' Healthcare Reform
We study the effects of Massachusetts' healthcare reform on individuals' subjective well-being. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we find that the reform significantly ...
(published as 'Health insurance and subjective well-being: Evidence from two healthcare reforms in the United States' in: Health Economics, 2022, 31 (1), 233-249)
I13, I18, I31
11878 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Damian Clarke
The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090-3139)
J12, J13, C13, D13, I12
11876 Lucía Del Carpio
Maria Guadalupe
More Women in Tech? Evidence from a Field Experiment Addressing Social Identity
This paper investigates whether social identity considerations-through beliefs and normsdrive women's occupational choices. We implement two field experiments with potential applicants to a ...
(published in: Management Science, 2024, 68 (5), 3196–3218)
J16, J24, D91
11874 Zahra Siddique
Violence and Female Labor Supply
This paper explores whether fear and safety concerns have an impact on behavior such as female labor supply in a developing country context. The effect of media reported physical and sexual assaults ...
(published as 'Media reported violence and female labor supply' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2022, 70 (4), 1337-1365.)
J16, J22
11873 Marcus Tamm
Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation
This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and ...
(revised version published as 'Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and labor market participation' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 59, 184 - 197)
H31, J13, J22
11872 Warn N. Lekfuangfu
Grace Lordan
Cross Cohort Evidence on Gendered Sorting Patterns in the UK: The Importance of Societal Movements versus Childhood Variables
We consider the extent to which societal shifts have been responsible for an increased tendency for females to sort into traditional male roles over time, versus childhood factors. Drawing on three ...
(published as 'Documenting Occupational Sorting by Gender in the UK across Three Cohorts: Does a Grand Convergence Rely on Societal Movements? in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 65, 2215–2256)
J16, J4
11871 Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Ute Leber
Works Councils, Training and Employee Satisfaction
This paper investigates the role of works councils in job satisfaction. Using the recently developed Linked Personnel Panel, we consider both the direct and indirect impact via further training. ...
(revised version published as 'Works council and training effects on satisfaction' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26(14), 1177-1181)
J24, J28, J53
11870 Massimiliano Bratti
Corinna Ghirelli
Enkelejda Havari
Giulia Santangelo
Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper evaluates the impact of a vocational training programme on the labour market outcomes of unemployed youth in Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period ...
(revised version published as 'Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 677 - 717 )
J01, J08, J18, J24
11868 James J. Heckman
Sidharth Moktan
Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 58 (2), 2020, 419 - 70)
A14, I23, J44, O31
11866 Tymon Sloczynski
A General Weighted Average Representation of the Ordinary and Two-Stage Least Squares Estimands
It is standard practice in applied work to study the effect of a binary variable (“treatment”) on an outcome of interest using linear models with additive effects. In this paper I study the ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 13283)
C21, C24, C26, C31
11865 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation: Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy
We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows mayors in municipalities with a population size lower than 3,000 inhabitants to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 196-211)
C21, D72, H70, J78
11864 German Blanco
Xuan Chen
Carlos A. Flores
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects on Duration Outcomes under Censoring, Selection, and Noncompliance
We consider the problem of assessing the effects of a treatment on duration outcomes using data from a randomized evaluation with noncompliance. For such settings, we derive nonparametric sharp ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (4), 901 - 920)
C21, C24, C41, J64
11862 Arun Advani
Toru Kitagawa
Tymon Sloczynski
Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
Currently there is little practical advice on which treatment effect estimator to use when trying to adjust for observable differences. A recent suggestion is to compare the performance of estimators ...
(published as 'Mostly Harmless Simulations? Using Monte Carlo Studies for Estimator Selection' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34(6), 893–910)
C15, C21, C25, C52
11861 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
Teamwork, Leadership and Gender
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader. About 430 students from an Italian University took an intermediate exam that was ...
(published as 'Female leadership: effectiveness and perception' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 201, 134-162.)
J16, M12, M54, C93
11860 Michael Barry
Alex Bryson
Rafael Gomez
Bruce E. Kaufman
Guenther Lomas
Adrian Wilkinson
The
Using new, rich data on a representative sample of British workers, we examine the relationship between joint consultation systems at the workplace and employee satisfaction, accounting for possible ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 60-90 )
J53, J58, J83
11858 Britta Gehrke
Wolfgang Lechthaler
Christian Merkl
The German Labor Market during the Great Recession: Shocks and Institutions
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 78, 192-208)
E24, E32, E62, J08, J63
11856 Margarida Madaleno
Max Nathan
Henry Overman
Sevrin Waights
Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development
A growing wave of co-location programmes promises to boost growth for entrepreneurs and young firms. Despite great public and policy interest we have little idea whether such programmes are ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2022, 59 (2) 281-300)
L26, O32, R30, R58
11855 Andrea Geraci
Mattia Nardotto
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Fabio Sabatini
Broadband Internet and Social Capital
We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104578 )
C91, D9, D91, Z1
11854 Jens Ruhose
Stephan L. Thomsen
Insa Weilage
The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training and Social Capital
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 166-186, )
J24, I21, M53
11853 Giuseppe Moscarini
Fabien Postel-Vinay
On the Job Search and Business Cycles
We propose a highly tractable way of analyzing business cycles in an environment with random job search both off- and and on-the-job (OJS). Ex post heterogeneity in productivity across jobs generates ...
(published in: Revue économique, 2024, 75 (1), 73-11)
E24, E32
11852 Andreas Kettemann
Andreas I. Mueller
Josef Zweimüller
Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages: Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data
This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using unusually informative data comprising detailed information on vacancies, the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1807-1841)
E24, J31, J63
11851 Andreas Kuhn
Stefan Staubli
Jean-Philippe Wuellrich
Josef Zweimüller
Fatal Attraction? Extended Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Exits, and Mortality
We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104087)
I10, I12, J14, J26
11850 Lucía Gorjón
Sara de la Rica
Antonio Villar
The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach
This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional ...
(published as 'The Cost of Unemployment from a Social Welfare Approach: The Case of Spain and Its Regions' in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 150, 955–976)
J64, J65, I31
11849 Marco Vivarelli
Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Impact on Employment and Skills
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may ...
(published in: Foster-McGregor, N. - Alcorta, L. - Szirmai, A. - Verspagen, B. (eds.), New Perspectives on Structural Change: Causes and Consequences of Structural Change in the Global Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Chapter 25.)
O14, O33
11847 Damian Clarke
Gustavo Cortés Méndez
Diego Vergara Sepúlveda
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Efficiency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health outcomes at birth. We consider both the equity and efficiency implications of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 883-956)
H23, O15, I14, H43, O38, H51
11844 Le Wen
Sholeh A. Maani
Job Mismatches and Career Mobility
Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education leads to a higher level of occupational advancement and wage growth over time, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2018, 51 (10), 1010–1024)
J24, J31, J60
11843 Maria Laura Di Tommaso
Anna Maccagnan
Silvia Mendolia
The Gender Gap in Attitudes and Test Scores: A New Construct of the Mathematical Capability
In most OECD countries, girls outperform boys in all subjects except mathematics. Usually, only test scores are utilised as a measure of mathematical skills. In this paper, we argue that in order to ...
(published as 'Going Beyond Test Scores: The Gender Gap in Italian Children's Mathematical Capability' in: Feminist Economics, 2021, 27 (3), 161-187)
J16, I24, C31
11842 V. Joseph Hotz
Emily Wiemers
Joshua Rasmussen
Kate Maxwell Koegel
The Role of Parental Wealth and Income in Financing Children's College Attendance and Its Consequences
This paper examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing decisions, graduation, and quality of college attended, and whether parental ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1850-1880)
I2, I22, I243
11841 William E. Even
Austin C. Smith
Greek Life, Academics, and Earnings
Using records from a large public university, we examine the impact of Greek life on academic performance and salaries. To isolate the causal effect of Greek life, we exploit a university policy ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (3), 998-1032;)
I23
11840 Hoang Khieu
Klaus Wälde
Capital Income Risk and the Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution
In this paper, we develop and numerically solve a model of idiosyncratic labour income and idiosyncratic interest rates to predict the evolution of a wealth distribution over time. Stochastic labour ...
(published in: Economic Modelling , 2023, 122, 106243)
C02, D31, E21
11839 Hector Sala
A Fresh Look at Fiscal Redistribution and Inequality in the US across Electoral Cycles
The evolution of the ratio of direct taxation (characterized by progressive rates) over indirect and payroll taxation (characterized by flat rates) is examined together with its distributional ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 195 - 206)
H20, H31, E25
11838 Charlotte Bartels
Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2019, 79 (3), 669-707)
D31, D63, J31, N30
11837 David J. Bjerk
Eric Helland
What Can DNA Exonerations Tell Us about Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates?
We examine the extent to which DNA exonerations can reveal whether wrongful conviction rates differ across races. We show that under a wide-range of assumptions regarding possible explicit or ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2020, 63 (2), 341 - 366)
K4
11836 Adriana Hernández Catañeda
Todd A. Sorensen
Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S.
Marriage patterns of immigrants are an important indicator of the degree of immigrant integration into their host countries. Literature on the economics of the household has focused on the role of ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2019, 2 (1-2), 20 - 42)
F22, J11, J12
11831 Han Ye
The Effect of Pension Subsidies on Retirement Timing of Older Women: Evidence from a Regression Kink Design
This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I ...
(published as 'The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1048 -1094 )
H55, J18, J21, J26
11829 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach
This paper focuses on identifying determinants of 'automatability risk', namely the propensity of EU employees being in jobs with high risk of substitutability by machines, robots or other ...
(published as 'Risks posed by automation to the European Labour Market ' in: Hogarth, T. (ed) Economy, employment and skills: European, regional and global perspectives in an age of uncertainty, Rome, 2018, 45 - 74)
J01, J21, J24
11828 Denis Fougère
Erwan Gautier
Sébastien Roux
Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France
This paper examines empirically the dynamics of wage floors defined in industry-level wage agreements in France. It also investigates how industry-level wage floor adjustment interacts with changes ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 72-97)
J31, J51, E24
11826 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne Lalé
The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 67, 101940)
E24, E32, J21
11825 Benjamin Artz
Amanda H. Goodall
Andrew J. Oswald
How Common Are Bad Bosses?
Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2020, 59 (1), 3-39)
J28, I31, M54
11823 Karina Doorley
Arnaud Dupuy
Simon Weber
The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models
This note investigates the extent to which structural estimates of marital surplus are informative about subjective well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2019, 176, 51-54)
C78, D1
11822 Ana Rute Cardoso
Louis-Philippe Morin
Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation
We investigate the potential channels that drive female labor force participation to rise in response to unbalanced sex ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One ...
(published online as 'War-driven permanent emigration, sex ratios, and female labor force participation' in: Journal of Human Resources, October 2023)
J21, J23, N34, J22
11820 Hani Mansour
Daniel I. Rees
Bryson Rintala
Nathan Wozny
The Effects of Professor Gender on the Post-Graduation Outcomes of Female Students
Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than 70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2022, 75 (3), 693 - 715 )
I20, J16, J24
11819 Muhammad Faress Bhuiyan
Artjoms Ivlevs
Micro-Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2019, 34 (4), 625-645)
I31, J16, L26
11817 Till Seuring
Pieter Serneels
Marc Suhrcke
Max Bachmann
Diabetes, Employment and Behavioural Risk Factors in China: Marginal Structural Models versus Fixed Effects Models
A diabetes diagnosis can motivate its recipients to reduce their health risks by changing lifestyles but can adversely affect their economic activity. We investigate the effect of a diabetes ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 29, 100925)
D83, E24, F61, I12, I14, J24
11815 Adrian Bruhin
Ernst Fehr
Daniel Schunk
The Many Faces of Human Sociality: Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (4), 1025–1069)
C49, C91, D03
11814 Michèle Belot
Philipp Kircher
Paul Muller
How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search: A Field Experiment
We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2022, 14 (4), 1–67)
J31, J63, J64, C93
11813 Stephen V. Burks
Kristen Monaco
Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken? An Empirical Analysis Using Nationally Representative Data
The US trucking industry trade press often portrays the US labor market for truck drivers as not working, citing persistent driver shortages and high levels of firm-level turnover, and predicting ...
(shorter version published as 'Is the U.S. Labor Market for Truck Drivers Broken?' in: Monthly Labor Review, Bureau of Labor Statistics, March, 2019)
J62, J49, R49, J24
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