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11719 Bernt Bratsberg
Øystein Hernaes
Simen Markussen
Oddbjørn Raaum
Knut Røed
Welfare Activation and Youth Crime
We evaluate the impact on youth crime of a welfare reform that tightened activation requirements for social assistance clients. The evaluation strategy exploits administrative individual data in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 561-574)
H55, I29, I38, J18
11718 Osea Giuntella
Has the Growth in 'Fast Casual' Mexican Restaurants Impacted Weight Gain?
The United States is witnessing a boom in fast casual restaurants owing to the recent growth of ethnic restaurants throughout the country. This study examines the effects of proximity to a Mexican ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 31, 115 - 124)
I10, J1, R20
11716 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Atheendar Venkataramani
Selma Walther
Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality that occurred following a major medical innovation in the US. In response to ...
(published as 'Women’s Fertility and Labor Market Responses to a Health Innovation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1595–1646, )
J13, I18
11714 Philipp Doerrenberg
Andreas Peichl
Tax Morale and the Role of Social Norms and Reciprocity: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment
We present the first randomized survey experiment in the context of tax compliance to assess the role of social norms and reciprocity for intrinsic tax morale. We find that participants in a ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv (FA), 2022, 78 (1), 44-86 )
H20, H32, H50, C93
11710 Christopher R. Bollinger
Barry Hirsch
Charles M. Hokayem
James P. Ziliak
Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (5), 2143-2185)
J31, C8, D31
11709 Aline Bütikofer
Kjell G. Salvanes
Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2087–2125)
I14, I18, I24
11708 Yafei Si
Zhongliang Zhou
Min Su
Xiao Wang
Dan Li
Dan Wang
Shuyi He
Zihan Hong
Xi Chen
Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method
In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop ...
(published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, 15 (7), 1466)
I12, I14, J14
11706 Gabriella Conti
Rita Ginja
Renata Narita
The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach
Do households value access to free health insurance when making labor supply decisions? We answer this question using the introduction of universal health insurance in Mexico, the Seguro Popular ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
J64, D10, I13, J46
11705 Randall K. Q. Akee
Liqiu Zhao
Zhong Zhao
Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2019, 53, 87-105)
J41, J64, I31
11703 Laura M. Argys
Susan L. Averett
Muzhe Yang
Light Pollution, Sleep Deprivation, and Infant Health at Birth
This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 87 (3), 849-888)
I10, I12, I18, Q59, R11
11701 Xavier Bartoll
Joan Gil
Raul Ramos
Has the Economic Crisis Worsened the Work-Related Stress and Mental Health of Temporary Workers in Spain?
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic ...
(published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2019, 92 (7), 1047-1059.)
I10, J41, J28
11700 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Commuting Time and Sick-Day Absence of US Workers
This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 2011, 2013, and 2015, we find that a ...
(published in: Empirica, 2022, 49, 691 - 719)
I10, J22, R2, R40
11699 Nick Drydakis
School-Age Bullying, Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction: Experiences of LGB People in Britain
Using a data set that contains information on retrospective school-age bullying, as well as on workplace bullying in the respondents' present job, the outcomes of this study suggest that bullying, ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2019, 87 (4), 455-488)
J16, J28, J70
11698 Tony Fang
Carl Lin
Xueli Tang
How Has the Two-Day Weekend Policy Affected Labour Supply and Household Work in China?
This paper examines the effects of working time reduction policy on labour supply (hours of work and whether an individual takes a second job) and household production, by exploiting the Chinese ...
(published as 'Where did the time go? The effects of China's two-day weekend policy on labor supply, household work, and wage' in: China Economic Review, 2024, 83, 102107. )
J22, J28
11696 Annika Campaner
John S. Heywood
Uwe Jirjahn
Flexible Work Organization and Employer Provided Training: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2022, 75 (1), 3-29)
J24, L00, M53
11694 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia Terskaya
Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the causal effect of gender-identity norms on female teenagers' engagement in risky behaviors relative to boys in the ...
( substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456 )
I10, I12, J15, J16, J22, Z13
11693 Ariel J. Binder
David Lam
Is There a Male Breadwinner Norm? The Hazards of Inferring Preferences from Marriage Market Outcomes
Spousal characteristics such as age, height, and earnings are often used in social science research to infer social preferences. For example, a "male taller" norm has been inferred from the fact that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6), 1885-1914)
D10, J12, J16
11692 Anne Ardila Brenøe
Origins of Gender Norms: Sibling Gender Composition and Women's Choice of Occupation and Partner
I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women's gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using ...
(published as 'Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1859 - 1896)
I2, J1, J3
11690 Apsara Karki Nepal
Martin Halla
Steven Stillman
Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff
We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. ...
(published online in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 18 December 2023)
D74, H56, J13, O10, O12
11689 Isabella Giorgetti
Matteo Picchio
One Billion Euro Program for Early Childcare Services in Italy
In 2007 the Italian central government started a program by transferring funds to regional governments to develop both private and public early childcare services. Exploiting the different timing of ...
(published in: Metroeconomica, 2021, 72 (3), 469-492)
C23, H52, H70, J13, R10
11688 Thomas Cornelissen
Christian Dustmann
Anna Raute
Uta Schönberg
Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance
In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2356–2409)
J13, J15, I28
11687 Malte Sandner
Stephan L. Thomsen
The Effects of Universal Public Childcare Provision on Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse
We investigate the impact of childcare provision on cases of child abuse and neglect in Germany between 2002 and 2014. For identification, we exploit a governmental reform introducing mandatory early ...
(revised version published online as 'Preventing Child Maltreatment: Beneficial Side Effects of Public Childcare' (joint with Libertad Gonzalez) in: Economic Journal, 19 July 2024)
J13, J12, I38
11686 Pinar Mine Gunes
Beyza Ural Marchand
Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey
This paper examines the effects of macroeconomic shocks on child schooling in Turkey using household labor force surveys from 2005-2013. We use variation in local labor demand as an instrumental ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101809.)
J13, J24, O15
11685 Kelvin Seah
Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement
A large body of research has found that, by being better able to serve as cultural translators and role models, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88(1), 245-273)
I21, J15
11684 Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
The Golden Middle Class Neighborhood: Trends in Residential Segregation and Consequences for Offspring Outcomes
Based on Norwegian administrative registers we provide new empirical evidence on the effects of the childhood neighborhood's socioeconomic status on educational and labor market performance. A ...
(revised version published as 'Are Richer Neighborhoods Always Better for the Kids?' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (3), 629–651)
C21, I24, R23, Z13
11683 Annika B. Bergbauer
Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Testing
School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 349-388)
I28, H52, L15, D82, P51
11682 Rocco d'Este
Elias Einiö
Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement: Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City
This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021,83, 102129.)
I20, I29, J15
11680 Francesc Ortega
Amy Hsin
Occupational Barriers and the Labor Market Penalty from Lack of Legal Status
Wage gaps between documented (including natives) and undocumented workers may reflect employer exploitation, endogenous occupational sorting and productivity losses associated with lack of legal ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102181)
J15, J24, J31
11679 Alpaslan Akay
Alexandra Brausmann
Slobodan Djajic
Murat Güray Kirdar
Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103682.)
F22, J61
11675 Anders Frederiksen
Takao Kato
Nina Smith
Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
By combining Danish registry data covering the population of Danish workers with the Danish Labor Force Survey (DLFS) which provides detailed data on working hours, we provide fresh evidence and ...
(revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024)
M5
11674 Daniel Jones
Mirco Tonin
Michael Vlassopoulos
Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507)
C91, M52, J45
11672 Alan B. Krueger
Orley Ashenfelter
Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector
In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S324-S348)
J42, J41, J63
11669 Kalena E. Cortes
Hans Fricke
Susanna Loeb
David S. Song
Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
Text-message based parenting programs have proven successful in improving parental engagement and preschoolers' literacy development. The tested programs have provided a combination of (a) general ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (2), 209-232)
I21, I24, J18
11668 Francesco Amodio
Jieun Choi
Giacomo De Giorgi
Aminur Rahman
Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2022, 50 (2), 435-453)
D22, D40, H26, H71, O12
11667 Philippe Ruh
Stefan Staubli
Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design
Most countries reduce Disability Insurance (DI) benefits for beneficiaries earning above a specified threshold. Such an earnings threshold generates a discontinuous increase in tax liability – a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300)
H53, H55, J14, J21
11666 Jonneke Bolhaar
Nadine Ketel
Bas van der Klaauw
Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 183, 104080)
C93, I38, J64, J08
11663 Anne Nolan
Alan Barrett
The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100201)
D14, H55, J14, J26
11662 J. David Brown
John S. Earle
Mee Jung Kim
Kyung Min Lee
High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth ...
(published as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28 (6), 1637–1672)
D22, J24, L25, L26
11661 Pedro Carneiro
Kai Liu
Kjell G. Salvanes
The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform
We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor in several cities in Norway, resulting from the construction of new colleges in the 1970s. We find ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (1), 48–92)
J23, J24
11660 Soham Sahoo
Stephan Klasen
Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India
This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. ...
(revised version published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (3), 987-1010)
I20, J16, J24
11659 Michela Carlana
Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias
I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134 (3), 1163–1224, )
J16, J24, I24
11658 Elisabeth Artmann
Nadine Ketel
Hessel Oosterbeek
Bas van der Klaauw
Field of Study and Family Outcomes
This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of ...
(published as 'Field of study and partner choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84, 102149 )
I26, J12, J13
11657 Jared Ashworth
Tyler Ransom
Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys
This paper examines trends in the college wage premium (CWP) by birth cohort across the five major household surveys in the United States: the Census/ACS, CPS, NLSY, PSID, and SIPP. We document a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69 (1), 149 -154. )
I26, J30
11654 Niels-Hugo Blunch
My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh
Previous research has examined the incidence and correlates of contraceptive use and of several dimensions of female autonomy but only rarely the intersection of the two: female contraceptive use ...
(published in: Feminist Economicy, 2019, 25 (4), 68-93 )
D13, I12, I21
11653 Olivier B. Bargain
Guy Lacroix
Luca Tiberti
Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing
Recent advances in the collective model literature suggest ways to estimate the complete allocation of resources within households, using assignable goods and assuming adult preference similarity ...
(published as 'Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 865 - 905)
D11, D12, D36, I31, J12
11652 Iga Magda
Aneta Kiełczewska
Nicola Brandt
The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2020, 10-17 )
E24, H53, I38, J13, J21, J22
11651 Øivind Anti Nilsen
Arvid Raknerud
Diana-Cristina Iancu
Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study
We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms' performance. Firms that received support are ...
(published as 'Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis' in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (7), 104067.)
C33, C52, D24, O38
11650 Karsten Kohn
Solvejg A. Wewel
Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze ...
(published in: Creativity and Innovation Management, 2018, 27 (3), 295-318)
L26, M13, J21
11649 Christoph Grimpe
Ulrich Kaiser
Wolfgang Sofka
Innovating for the Better? The Role of Advocacy Group Work Experience for Employee Pay
How valuable is work experience with advocacy groups, e.g. Greenpeace, for new hires of innovative firms? We integrate strategic human capital with stakeholder theory and suggest that this experience ...
(published as 'Signalling valuable human capital: Advocacy group work experience and its effect on employee pay in innovative firms' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40(4), 685-70;)
J24, J6, C21
11647 Isaac Ehrlich
Adam Cook
Yong Yin
What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 233–281)
N3, E24, H42, I2, O1, O57, O4
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