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16651 Francesco Fasani
Tommaso Frattini
Maxime Pirot
From Refugees to Citizens: Labor Market Returns to Naturalization
Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical question by exploring survey data from 21 European countries and leveraging variation ...
(this version: June 2024)
J15, J61, F22
16650 Helen Rahlff
Ulf Rinne
Hendrik Sonnabend
COVID-19, School Closures and (Cyber)Bullying in Germany
We analyze the prevalence of bullying in Germany during COVID-19, both as a real-life phenomenon (in-person bullying, or in our context: school bullying) and via social media and electronic ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2025, 33 (6), 852-865)
H75, I12, I21, I28, I31
16646 James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Econometric Causality: The Central Role of Thought Experiments
This paper examines the econometric causal model and the interpretation of empirical evidence based on thought experiments that was developed by Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 243 (1-2), 105719)
C10, C18
16643 Mihails Hazans
Jaan Masso
Per Botolf Maurseth
Human Values and Selection into Supervisory Positions: Evidence from Nine European Countries
Do employees with supervisory responsibilities differ from other workers in terms of human values, especially those potentially affecting the quality and efficiency of supervision? This paper uses ...
(revised version published online in International Journal of Manpower, 9 September 2025)
D91, J24, M51, P52
16642 Shuai Chen
Unemployment, Immigration, and Populism
This paper examines how unemployment and cultural anxiety have triggered different dimensions of the current populism in the United States. Specifically, I exploit the Great Recession (GR) and the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 67 (4), 951 - 986)
A13, D31, J01, J64, P16
16641 Shireen AlAzzawi
Hai-Anh H Dang
Vladimir Hlasny
Kseniya Abanokova
Jere R. Behrman
Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology
Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have mixed results and despite the availability of ...
(published as 'Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Taxonomy' in: Social Indicators Research, 2025, 180 (2), 1067–1202)
I3, J16, N35, O1
16638 Daniel Goller
Christian Gschwendt
Stefan C. Wolter
'This Time It's Different' - Generative Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Choice
In this paper, we show the causal influence of the launch of generative AI in the form of ChatGPT on the search behavior of young people for apprenticeship vacancies. There is a strong and ...
(published online in: Labour Economics, 8 June 2025, 102746)
J24, O33
16636 Martin Neugebauer
Alexander Patzina
Hans Dietrich
Malte Sandner
Two Pandemic Years Greatly Reduced Young People's Life Satisfaction: Evidence from a Comparison with Pre-COVID-19 Panel Data
How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2024, 40 (5), 872 - 886)
I31, I18, J24
16632 Ashley Edwards
Justin Ortagus
Jonathan Smith
Andria Smythe
HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes
Using data from nearly 1.2 million Black SAT takers, we estimate the impacts of initially enrolling in an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) on educational, economic, and financial ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
I2, J1
16629 Joan Costa-Font
Frank A. Cowell
Xuezhu Shi
Health Inequality and Health Insurance Coverage: The United States and China Compared
We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large countries that have expanded their insurance provisions in recent decades, but that ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 52, 101346)
D63, I18, I3
16625 Christopher F. Karpowitz
Stephen D. O'Connell
Jessica Preece
Olga B. Stoddard
Strength in Numbers? Gender Composition, Leadership, and Women's Influence in Teams
Policies that increase women's representation often intend to provide women with influence over processes and decisions of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (9), 3077–3114)
J16
16621 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Minimum Wage Non-compliance: The Role of Co-determination
We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the ...
(substantially revised version published online in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 14 September 2024, )
J30, J53, K31, K42, M54
16620 Ignacio Belloc
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Unexpected Inheritances and Household Labor Supply: Does the Identity of the Recipient Matter?
Traditionally, the data of inheritances in surveys are analysed assuming that they are equally shared within households. However, inheritances are individual assets, regardless of the marital ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71 (1), e12723)
D13, D31, G51, J14, J22
16617 Nicholas Bayly
Robert Breunig
Chris Wokker
Female Board Representation and Corporate Performance: A Review and New Estimates for Australia
Despite a conventional wisdom that female board members positively impact firm performance, a thorough examination of the research to date reveals no consensus that female board members have either a ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2024, 100 (330), 386-417)
J16, N20, G32
16613 Tomasz Zając
Iga Magda
M. Bożykowski
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak
M. Jasiński
Gender Pay Gaps across STEM Fields of Study
Gender pay gaps in earnings are well-documented in the literature. However, new factors contributing to women's lower earnings have emerged and remain under-researched. Educational choices are among ...
(published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2025, 50 (1), 126-139 )
J16, J24, J3, J71
16610 Milena Nikolova
Anthony Lepinteur
Femke Cnossen
Just Another Cog in the Machine? A Worker-Level View of Robotization and Tasks
Using survey data from 20 European countries, we construct novel worker-level indices of routine, abstract, social, and physical tasks, which we combine with industry-level robotization exposure. Our ...
(published in: Economica, 2025, 92, 1101-1148)
J01, J30, J32, J81, I30, I31, M50
16607 Daniel Goller
Stefan C. Wolter
Reaching for Gold! The Impact of a Positive Reputation Shock on Career Choice
We analyze the causal influence a positive reputation shock for a particular occupation may have on career choice. The measure of the positive reputation shock is the unpredictable event that a young ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 175, 105017)
I21, J22, J24
16606 Michael Johannes Böhm
Pamela Qendrai
System Relevance and Firm Performance Due to COVID-19
We study the impact of COVID-19 on firm performance. Using financial accounts of a large number of German firms, we document that industry affiliation is an important economic dimension of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2023, 24 (4), 349-410 )
H12, L25
16604 Vinzenz Pyka
Claus Schnabel
Unionization of Retired Workers in Europe
We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2025, 31 (1), 5-29)
J26, J51
16603 L. Rachel Ngai
Kevin D. Sheedy
The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility
The housing market is subject to search frictions in buying and selling houses. This paper documents the role of inflows (new listings) and outflows (sales) in explaining the volatility and ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2024, 65 (3), 1415-1440)
E32, E22, R21, R31
16599 Adam Osman
Jamin D. Speer
Stigma and Take-up of Labor Market Assistance: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Aversion to "stigma" - disutility associated with a program or activity due to beliefs about how it is perceived - may affect labor market choices and utilization of social programs, but empirical ...
(published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (361), 123-141)
J22, C93, I38, Z13
16598 Adam Osman
Jamin D. Speer
Andrew Weaver
Discrimination against Women in Hiring
We study discrimination in hiring and its associated outcomes for the discriminators using a unique survey of Egyptian businesses. Discrimination against women is widespread and overt: about half ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (2), 781-809)
J16, J71, C83, O12
16594 Badi H. Baltagi
Sergi Jimenez-Martin
José M. Labeaga
Majid al Sadoon
Consistent Estimation of Panel Data Sample Selection Models
The properties of classical panel data estimators including fixed effect, first-differences, random effects, and generalized method of moments-instrumental variables estimators in both static as well ...
(published online in: Econometrics and Statistic, 11 November 2023 )
J52, C23, C24
16593 Sugat Chaturvedi
Kanika Mahajan
Zahra Siddique
Using Domain-Specific Word Embeddings to Examine the Demand for Skills
We study the demand for skills by using text analysis methods on job descriptions in a large volume of ads posted on an online Indian job portal. We make use of domain-specific unlabeled data to ...
(published in: B. Elsner and S. W. Polachek (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics Vol. 52B), Emerald, 2024, 171-223 )
J16, J23, J31, J63, J71, L2
16590 Livia Alfonsi
Michal Bauer
Julie Chytilová
Edward Miguel
Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103215)
C93, O12, Z12
16589 Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi
Roberto Nistico
Economic Sanctions and Informal Employment
This paper examines how economic sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 89, 102581)
E26, F16, F51, O17
16588 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Jian Qi Tan
The Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on Long Hours and Work Schedules
Unions play a crucial role in determining wages and employment outcomes. However, union bargaining power may also have important effects on non-pecuniary working conditions. We study the effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (3), 696-713)
J50, I10
16587 Nicolas Herault
Stephen P. Jenkins
Redistribution, Horizontal Inequity, and Reranking: Direct Taxation in the UK, 1977–2020
We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2023, 32 (3-4))
D31, H24, H50, I38
16585 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban Aucejo
Arnaud Maurel
Tyler Ransom
College Attrition and the Dynamics of Information Revelation
We examine how informational frictions impact schooling and work outcomes. To do so, we estimate a dynamic structural model where individuals face uncertainty about their academic ability and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2025, 133 (1), 53-110)
C35, D83, J24
16579 Mattia Filomena
Matteo Picchio
You'll Never Walk Alone: Unemployment, Social Networks and Leisure Activities
We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction measures. Using the LISS panel, a representative longitudinal survey of the Dutch ...
(published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 09 May 2025)
I31, J01, J64
16578 Maria Luz L. Malabayabas
Ashok K. Mishra
Joaquin Mayorga
Spouses' Access to Financial Services: Estimating Technological and Managerial Gaps in Production
The study investigates the effect of the spouse's access to financial services (credit or savings) through membership in a self-help group on adopting technology, technical efficiency, and managerial ...
(published as 'Impact of spouses' access to financial services on technological and managerial gaps in rice production' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (5), 2430 - 2457)
C21, Q12, Q16, Q55, R58
16577 Andrew McGee
Peter McGee
Gender Differences in Reservation Wages in Search Experiments
Women report setting lower reservation wages than men in survey data. We show that women set reservation wages that are 14 to 18 percent lower than men's in laboratory search experiments that control ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102698)
J16, J64, C91
16576 Vera Brenčič
Andrew McGee
Demand for Personality Traits, Tasks, and Sorting
In job ads, employers express demand for personality traits when seeking workers to perform tasks that can be completed with different behaviors (e.g., communication, problem-solving) but not when ...
(published in: Elsner, B. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Big Data Applications in Labor Economics, Part A (Research in Labor Economics, 52A), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2024, 161-211)
D22, J23, J24, J33, M51
16574 Maximilian Koppenberg
Ashok K. Mishra
Stefan Hirsch
Food Aid and Violent Conflict: A Review of Literature
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for ...
(published as 'Food aid and violent conflict: A review and Empiricist’s companion' in: Food Policy, 2023, 121, 102542)
F35, Q18, D74
16573 Oded Stark
Can Altruism Lead to a Willingness to Take Risks?
I study attitudes towards risk taking in cases where a person relates to others positively, namely altruistically. This study is needed because it is unclear how altruism influences the inclination ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2024, 48 (2), 272-278)
D01, D64, D81, G41
16571 Jan Feld
Corinna Lines
Libby Ross
Writing Matters
For papers to have scientific impact, they need to impress our peers in their role as referees, journal editors, and members of conference committees. Does better writing help our papers make it past ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 217, 378-397)
A10
16570 Hai-Anh H Dang
Stephane Hallegatte
Trong-Anh Trinh
Does Global Warming Worsen Poverty and Inequality? An Updated Review
We offer an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (5), 1873-1905)
Q54, I32, O1
16569 Vincenzo Bove
Jessica Di Salvatore
Leandro Elia
Roberto Nistico
Mothers at Peace: International Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Fertility
A considerable body of empirical evidence indicates that conflict affects reproductive behaviour, often resulting in an increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 167, 103226)
J16, J24, D74, F50
16564 Derek Wu
Jonathan Zhang
Sliding into Safety Net Participation: A Unified Analysis across Multiple Programs
Recipients of government transfers are economically disadvantaged, yet little is known about how their circumstances evolve leading up to program receipt. Using twenty-five years of survey data as ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2005, 78 (1), 45–86)
H53, I38, I18
16563 Sara Amoroso
Benedikt Herrmann
Alexander S. Kritikos
The Role of Regulation and Regional Government Quality for High Growth Firms: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
High growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and considered to be precursors of economic growth. We investigate how product- and labor-market regulations, as well as the quality of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2024, 58 (9), 1710–1727)
H11, L25, L50, R11, R50
16558 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Peng Zhang
Hanrui Jia
How and Why the Gender Pension Gap in Urban China Decreased between 1988 and 2018
In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are important because pension rights and amounts are based on labor force ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (2), 651–678)
H55, J14, J26, P36
16557 Mette Gørtz
Sarah Sander
Almudena Sevilla
Does the Child Penalty Strike Twice, and If So Why?
This paper compares the labor market impact of grandparents before and after the arrival of the first grandchild. We show that grandmothers' labor market outcomes decline more steeply than ...
(published as 'Does the Child Penalty Strike Twice?' in: European Economic Review, 2025, 172, 104942)
J13, J14, J16, J22
16555 Cecilia Machado
Valdemar Neto
Christiane Szerman
Firm and Worker Responses to Extensions in Paid Maternity Leave
This paper investigates how firms and workers respond to a voluntary government-funded program increasing the duration of paid maternity leave from four to six months in Brazil. We show that larger, ...
(published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 May 2024)
J13, J22, J32
16553 Munseob Lee
Yongseok Shin
The Plant-Level View of Korea's Growth Miracle and Slowdown
We analyze the evolution of the plant size distribution, static allocative efficiency, and business dynamism of the Korean manufacturing sector during its growth miracle (1967–2000) and the ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2024, 57 (3), 704–725)
O14, O47, O53
16548 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Chunbei Wang
Intermarriage amid Immigration Status Uncertainty: Evidence from DACA
In 2012, the Obama Administration issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order. Since then, more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived as children ...
(published online in: International Journal of Policy Analysis and Mangement, 04 September 2024 )
J12, J15, J18
16545 Tianyu Wang
Ruochen Sun
Jody L. Sindelar
Xi Chen
Occupational Differences in the Effects of Retirement on Hospitalizations for Mental Illness among Female Workers: Evidence from Administrative Data in China
Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024 , 53, 101367)
I11, J26, J14, I18, H55
16543 Harrison Chang
Timothy J. Halliday
Ming-Jen Lin
Bhashkar Mazumder
Estimating Intergenerational Health Transmission in Taiwan with Administrative Health Records
We use population-wide administrative health records from Taiwan to estimate intergenerational persistence in health, providing the first estimates for a middle income country. We measure latent ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105194)
I1, J1
16542 Alicia Sasser Modestino
Mary A. Burke
Shahriar Sadighi
Rachel Sederberg
Tomere Stern
Bledi Taska
No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially ...
(This version: February 2025.)
D22, E24, J23, J24, J63
16541 Olga Popova
Sarah Grace See
Milena Nikolova
Vladimir Otrachshenko
The Societal Costs of Inflation and Unemployment
What are the broad societal implications of inflation and unemployment? Analyzing a dataset of over 1.9 million individuals from 156 countries via the Gallup World Poll spanning 2005 to 2021, ...
(revised version published under the title "Inflation, unemployment, and institutional trust: The global evidence" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025)
D12, D83, E31, E58
16540 Moritz Odersky
Max Löffler
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany
We analyze the exposure of different income groups to the 2021 floods in Germany, which serve as an exemplary case of natural disasters intensified by anthropogenic climate change. To this end, we ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22 (3), 551–576)
Q52, Q54, D30
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