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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
16539 Luna Bellani
Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo
Educate Some to Represent Many? Education and Female Political Representation in Europe
Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of women's education on political representation focusing on several ...
(revised version published as 'Bridging the Gender Gap: Women’s Education and Political Representation' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 104, 102605)
H52, I21, I23, J24, J31
16537 Eliana Carranza
David McKenzie
Job Training and Job Search Assistance Policies in Developing Countries
Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024, 38 (1), 221–244)
J22, J23, J24, J64, M53, O12, O15
16536 Giorgio Brunello
Eiji Yamamura
Desperately Seeking a Japanese Yokozuna
Using data on wrestlers and tournaments since the early 1970s, we study promotion practices in Sumo, a Japanese traditional sport. We show that, especially since 2010, foreign-born wrestlers trying ...
(forthcoming in: Asian Economic Journal)
J40, J71
16532 Climent Quintana-Domeque
Jingya Zeng
COVID-19 and Mental Health: Natural Experiments of the Costs of Lockdowns
The COVID 19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the world, affecting not only physical health and the economy but also mental well being. This chapter provides an investigation of the causal link ...
(revised version published online in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 27 February 2024)
I1, J1
16530 Munseob Lee
Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (665), 3333–3359)
O11, O13, O47
16529 Tristany Armangué-Jubert
Nezih Guner
Alessandro Ruggieri
Labor Market Power and Development
Imperfect competition in labor markets can lead to efficiency losses and lower aggregate output. In this paper, we study whether differences in competitiveness of labor markets can help explain ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2025, 7 (2), 177–195)
J42, L13, O11, E24
16528 Amanda Agan
Andrew Garin
Dmitri Koustas
Alexandre Mas
Crystal S. Yang
Labor Market Impacts of Reducing Felony Convictions
We study the labor market impacts of retroactively reducing felonies to misdemeanors in San Joaquin County, CA, where criminal justice agencies implemented Proposition 47 reductions in a quasi-random ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 6 (3), 341–358)
J0, K0
16527 Peter Dungan
Tony Fang
Morley Gunderson
Steve Murphy
Macroeconomic Impacts of Immigration in the Canadian Atlantic Region: An Empirical Analysis Using the Focus Model
We simulate the impact of an increase in immigration into the Atlantic provinces based on the FOCUS macro-econometric model at the University of Toronto. That national model was adapted to reflect ...
(published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies, 11 June 2024)
J11, J15, J18, J24
16526 José Mesquita
João Pereira dos Santos
José Tavares
European Funds and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper analyses the impact of European Union (EU) funds on the performance of private firms. In particular, we examine a quasi-natural experiment consisting of a redrawing of administrative areas ...
(published online in: Small Business Economics, 02 June 2025)
C21, R10
16525 Hashibul Hassan
Asadul Islam
Abu Siddique
Liang Choon Wang
Telementoring and Homeschooling during School Closures: A Randomized Experiment in Rural Bangladesh
Using a randomized experiment in 200 Bangladeshi villages, we evaluate the impact of an over-the-phone learning support intervention (telementoring) among primary school children and their mothers ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (622), 2418–2438)
C93, I21, I24
16519 Nick Drydakis
Forced Labor and Health-Related Outcomes. The Case of Beggar Children
The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging ...
(published in: Child Abuse and Neglect, 2023, 146,:106490)
J10, J13, J46, J70, I14
16511 Mira Fischer
Elisabeth Grewenig
Philipp Lergetporer
Katharina Werner
Helen Zeidler
The E-Word – On the Public Acceptance of Experiments
Randomized experiments are often viewed as the "gold standard" of scientific evidence, but people's scepticism towards experiments has compromised their viability in the past. We study preferences ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 235, 111558)
I28, H40, C93
16510 Piotr Lewandowski
Karol Madoń
Deborah Winkler
The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality
This paper studies the relationship between global value chain (GVC) participation, worker-level routine task intensity, and wage inequality within countries. Using unique survey data from 38 ...
(published in: World Economy, 2024, 47, 4389–4435)
J21, J24, J31, F66
16508 Hao Dong
Daniel L. Millimet
Embrace the Noise: It Is OK to Ignore Measurement Error in a Covariate, Sometimes
In linear regression models, measurement error in a covariate causes Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to be biased and inconsistent. Instrumental Variables (IV) is a common solution. While IV is also ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2025, 188 (2), 608–627)
C13, C26, C52
16504 Carmen Camacho
Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
Transmissible Diseases, Vaccination and Inequality
We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an economy with two groups of workers, who are differently exposed to a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2024, 26 (6), e70002)
C6, I140
16502 Rigissa Megalokonomou
Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
The Effects of Exposure to Refugees on Crime: Evidence from the Greek Islands
Recent political instability in the Middle East has triggered one of the largest influxes of refugees into Europe. The different departure points along the Turkish coast generate exogenous variation ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 160, 104605)
F61, F22, K42, J15
16500 David E. Bloom
Michael Kuhn
Klaus Prettner
Fertility in High-Income Countries: Trends, Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences
High-income countries have generally experienced falling fertility in recent decades. In most of these countries, the total fertility rate is now below the level that implies a stable population in ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2024, 16, 159-184 )
J11, J13, O11
16497 Philippe Bocquier
Narcisse Cha’Ngom
Frédéric Docquier
Joël Machado
The Within-Country Distribution of Brain Drain and Brain Gain Effects: A Case Study on Senegal
Existing empirical literature provides converging evidence that selective emigration enhances human capital accumulation in the world's poorest countries. However, the within-country distribution of ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 384-411)
J24, J61, O15, R23, E24
16494 Sascha O. Becker
Jared Rubin
Ludger Woessmann
Religion and Growth
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62 (3), 1094–1142)
Z12, O40, N30, I25, O15
16491 Sinem H. Ayhan
Hartmut Lehmann
Selin Pelek
Job Creation and Job Destruction in Turkey: 2006 - 2021
This paper examines the dynamics of Turkey's labor market using job flow analysis. We analyze administrative data from 2006 to 2021, encompassing all non-financial firms and their employees ...
(published as 'Job Creation and Job Destruction in Turkey: 2006 - 2021' in: Eurasian Economic Review, 2025, 15, 741 - 773.)
E24, J08, J23, J63, L25, L26
16487 Magnus Henrekson
Mikael Stenkula
Bottom-up Policies Trump Top-down Missions
Mission-oriented innovation policies are becoming increasingly popular among policymakers and scholars. We maintain that these policies are based on an overly mechanistic view of innovation and ...
(published in: Magnus Henrekson, Christian Sandström, and Mikael Stenkula (eds.), Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy, Cham: Springer, 2024, 309–331)
H50, L26, O31, P16
16483 Wim Naudé
Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship
This paper provides a selective overview of destructive digital entrepreneurship. The concept is defined and elaborated in the context of the digital revolution post World War II. It is pointed out ...
(published in: W. Naudé and B. Power (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Elgar, 2024, 292–328 )
L26, L21, L53, O40
16479 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Adults' Subjective Wellbeing
Using four cross-sectional data files for the United States and Europe we show that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) have a significant impact on subjective wellbeing (SWB) in adulthood. Death of ...
(published as 'The adult consequences on wellbeing of abuse and neglect in childhood ' in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2024, 14 (3), 3513, 1-28)
I31, I10, J12
16475 Pedro S. Martins
António Melo
Making Their Own Weather? Estimating Employer Labour-Market Power and Its Wage Effects
The subdued wage growth observed in many countries has spurred interest in monopsony views of regional labour markets. This study measures the extent and robustness of employer power and its wage ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 139, 103614)
J42, J31, J63
16469 Anthony Edo
Cem Özgüzel
The Impact of Immigration on the Employment Dynamics of European Regions
This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross-country framework. By exploiting the richness of the European Labour Force Surveys and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102433)
F22, J21, J61
16467 Bastian Schulz
Labor Market Dynamics with Sorting
I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor market sorting, and aggregate shocks. In response to a positive productivity ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2024, 158, 104776)
E24, E32, J63, J64
16466 Luca Maria Pesando
Elisabetta De Cao
Giulia La Mattina
Alberto Ciancio
Educational Assortative Mating and Harsh Parenting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2024, 351, 116954)
I21, J12, J13, O12, O15, O57
16463 Amanda Guimbeau
Xinde James Ji
Zi Long
Nidhiya Menon
Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation
We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024,125, 102954)
Q54, Q15, Q56, I15, O13, J13
16460 Sam Desiere
Christian Walter
The Shift Premium: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment
Shift work is a widespread but understudied phenomenon. This paper examines one specific aspect of shift work: the shift premium. To this end, we included a discrete choice experiment in an online ...
(forthcoming in: British Journal of Industrial Relations)
C91, J31, J48
16458 Eric A. Hanushek
Lavinia Kinne
Pietro Sancassani
Ludger Woessmann
Can Patience Account For Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, ...
(published online as 'Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests' in: Economic Journal, 2025)
I21, Z10
16457 Gary Charness
Yves Le Bihan
Marie Claire Villeval
Mindfulness Training, Cognitive Performance and Stress Reduction
Improving cognitive function and reducing stress may yield important benefits to individuals' health and to society. We conduct an experiment involving a three-month within-firm training program ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 217, 207-226. )
C91, I12
16455 Hamzeh Arabzadeh
Almut Balleer
Britta Gehrke
Ahmet Ali Taskin
Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Financial Constraints in Firms
This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104678)
J31, J38, J63, J64
16453 Stanislav Avdeev
Nadine Ketel
Hessel Oosterbeek
Bas van der Klaauw
Spillovers in Fields of Study: Siblings, Cousins, and Neighbors
We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105193.)
I23, I24, J10
16451 Alfredo Burlando
Michael A. Kuhn
Silvia Prina
Too Fast, Too Furious? Digital Credit Delivery Speed and Repayment Rates
Digital loans are a source of fast, short-term credit for millions of people. While digital credit broadens market access and reduces frictions, default rates are high. We study the role of the speed ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 174, 103427)
D14, D18, G51, O16
16443 Marco Caliendo
Daniel Rodriguez
Divergent Thinking and Post-Launch Entrepreneurial Outcomes: Non-Linearities and the Moderating Role of Experience
Divergent thinking is the ability to produce numerous and diverse responses to questions or tasks, and it is used as a predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1523-1553)
L25, L26, M13, M51
16439 Paul Berbée
Jan Stuhler
The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence over 50 Years
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2025, 50 (122), 481 - 549)
J11, J61, J68
16438 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Parag Mahajan
Bernhard Schmidpeter
Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance
How do migrant workers impact firm performance? We exploit an unexpected change in firms’ likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the U.S. H-2B visa program to address this question. Using ...
(this version: July 2024)
J23, F22, J61
16437 Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Teen Social Interactions and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Adolescence is an important developmental period when teens begin spending less time with their parents and more time with friends and others outside their households as they transition into ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2025, 23, 357–404)
J13, J22
16436 José María Barrero
Nicholas Bloom
Steven J. Davis
The Evolution of Work from Home
Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20-64 years old, as of mid 2023, according to the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. That's about four ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (4), 23 - 50)
D13, D23, E24, J22, J31, M54, R3
16431 Matteo Picchio
Jan C. van Ours
The Impact of High Temperatures on Performance in Work-Related Activities
High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental health or physical health is worse when it is too warm. Workers may experience ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102509)
J24, J81, Q51, Q54
16428 Jonas Jessen
Sophia Schmitz
Felix Weinhardt
Immigration, Female Labour Supply and Local Cultural Norms
We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunication. These migrants ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 1146–1172)
J16, J21, D1
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