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10907 Alpaslan Akay
Olivier B. Bargain
Xavier Jara
Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. Interpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific ...
(published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859)
C90, I31, J22
10906 Renate Strobl
Conny Wunsch
Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals ...
(published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in: Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185 - 1214)
D81, C91, O12, D63
10905 Robert Paul Hartley
Carlos Lamarche
Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 135-151)
J22, I38, C21, C33
10903 Admasu Shiferaw
Arjun S. Bedi
Mans Söderbom
Getnet Alemu
Social Insurance Reform and Labor Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 for private sector employees in the formal sector. We use firm-level panel data ...
(published as 'Social insurance reform and workers’ compensation' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102214)
H55, J2, J3
10902 Bhaskar Chakravorty
Arjun S. Bedi
Skills Training and Employment Outcomes in Rural Bihar
In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the country's population of 1.21 billion is below the age of 25 and faces a high ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2019, 62 (2), 173–199)
J60, J68
10901 Albrecht Glitz
Daniel Wissmann
Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 72, 102034)
J110, J210, J220, J310
10900 Arnaud Dupuy
Alfred Galichon
A Note on the Estimation of Job Amenities and Labor Productivity
This note introduces a maximum likelihood estimator of the value of job amenities and labor productivity in a single matching market based on the observation of equilibrium matches and wages. The ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13 (1), 153-177.)
C35, C78, J31
10899 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Workplace Employee Representation and Industrial Relations Performance: New Evidence from the 2013 European Company Survey
Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of ...
(published in: Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2019, 239 (1), 111-154)
J51, J52, J53, J83
10898 Hector Sala
Pedro Trivín
The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution
The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor (?) is usually considered a "deep parameter". This paper shows, in contrast, that ? is affected by both globalization and technology, and that ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (3), 617-647)
E25, F62, E22, O33
10897 Haeyeon Yoon
Almas Heshmati
Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the ...
(published in: Science and Public Policy, 2021, 48 (1), 122 - 131)
F23, K32, L51, Q56
10896 David E. Bloom
Simiao Chen
Michael Kuhn
Mark E. McGovern
Les Oxley
Klaus Prettner
The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100163)
H51, I15, I18, J24, O11
10894 Jordy Meekes
Wolter Hassink
The Role of the Housing Market in Workers' Resilience to Job Displacement after Firm Bankruptcy
We examine the role of the housing market in workers' adjustment to job displacement. Dutch administrative data were used and analysed with a quasi-experimental design involving job displacement. The ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 109, 41-65)
J31, J32, J63, J65, R21, R23
10892 Reinhold Kosfeld
Christian Dreger
Towards an East German Wage Curve: NUTS Boundaries, Labour Market Regions and Unemployment Spillovers
The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 76, 115 - 124)
J30, J60, C33, R15
10890 Andreas Landmann
Helke Seitz
Susan Steiner
Patrilocal Residence and Female Labour Supply
We examine the role of intergenerational co-residence for female labour supply in a patrilocal society. To account for the endogeneity of women's co-residence with parents or in-laws, we exploit a ...
(published as 'Patrilocal Residence and Female Labor Supply: Evidence From Kyrgyzstan' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (6), 2181 - 2203)
J12, J21
10888 Manuel Bagues
Pamela Campa
Can Gender Quotas in Candidate Lists Empower Women? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
We provide a comprehensive analysis of the short- and medium-term effects of gender quotas in candidate lists using evidence from Spain, where quotas were introduced in 2007 in municipalities with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021,194, 104315)
D72, H72, J16
10886 Marie C. Hull
Katherine Duch
One-To-One Technology and Student Outcomes
New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41 (1), 79-97)
I21, J24, O33
10885 Wiljan Van den Berge
Egbert L. W. Jongen
Karen van der Wiel
Using Tax Deductions to Promote Lifelong Learning: Real and Shifting Responses
Policymakers are concerned about potential underinvestment in lifelong learning. In this paper we study to what extent a tax deduction helps to stimulate post-initial training. Specifically, we ...
(published as 'The effects of a tax deduction for lifelong learning expenditures' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2022, 30, 729 - 756)
C21, H20, J24
10884 Jorge M. Aguero
Carlos Felipe Balcázar
Stanislao Maldonado
Hugo R. Nopo
The Value of Redistribution: Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital under Weak Institutions
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 148, 102581)
H7, H23, I25, O15, Q32
10882 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Dmitri Koustas
Consumption Inequality and the Frequency of Purchases
We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the U.S. since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 449 - 482)
D31, E21, D63
10881 Indraneel Dasgupta
Ranajoy Guha Neogi
Between-Group Contests over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation
We model a contest between two groups of equal population size over the division of a group-specific public good. Each group is fragmented into sub-groups. Each sub-group allocates effort between ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2018, 174 (3-4), 315-334.)
D72, D74, O10, O20
10880 Almas Heshmati
Nam-Seok Kim
The Relationship between Economic Growth and Democracy: Alternative Representations of Technological Change
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the ...
(published in: M. Tsionas (ed.), Panel Data Economics: Empirical Analysis, 2019, 885 - 929)
D24, O43, O47, P16
10879 Gilles Saint-Paul
Secular Satiation
Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2021, 26 (3), 291-327. )
E13, E14, E21, E22, E23
10877 Stefania Bortolotti
Ivan Soraperra
Matthias Sutter
Claudia Zoller
Too Lucky to Be True: Fairness Views under the Shadow of Cheating
The steady increase in inequality over the past decades has revived a lively debate about what can be considered a fair distribution of income. Public support for the extent of redistribution ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023)
C91, D63, D81, H26
10876 Eva Van Belle
Ralf Caers
Marijke De Couck
Valentina Di Stasio
Stijn Baert
Why Is Unemployment Duration a Sorting Criterion in Hiring?
Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms ...
(revised version published as 'Why Are Employers Put Off by Long Spells of Unemployment?' in: European Sociological Review, 2018, 34 (6), 694 - 710)
J64, J24, J23, C91
10875 Duco de Vos
Evert J. Meijers
Maarten van Ham
Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute
It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2018, 61, 375 - 398)
J32, R11, R41
10874 Mariana Carrera
Heather Royer
Mark Stehr
Justin Syndor
Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members
We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 202 -214)
C93, D3, I12
10873 Stephen B. Billings
Kevin T. Schnepel
The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values
The presence of lead paint significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral development, yet little is known about the value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 69 - 81)
Q51, Q52, Q58, R21, R23, R31, I18
10872 Stephen B. Billings
Kevin T. Schnepel
Life After Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead
Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 315 - 344)
I12, I18, I21, J13, J24, K42, Q53, Q58
10871 Juan Pablo Atal
Hanming Fang
Martin Karlsson
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans
We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (3), 697-727)
G22, I11, I18
10870 Adam Pilny
Ansgar Wübker
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany
To equalize differences in health plan premiums due to differences in risk pools, the German legislature introduced a simple Risk Adjustment Scheme (RAS) based on age, gender and disability status in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 330-351)
D12, H51, I11, I13, I18
10869 Andrea Brandolini
Stephen P. Jenkins
John Micklewright
Tony Atkinson and His Legacy
Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 411 - 444. )
D3, H00, I3
10868 Richard V. Burkhauser
Nicolas Herault
Stephen P. Jenkins
Roger Wilkins
Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality: What Is the Role of the UK's SPI Adjustment?
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2018, 39 (2), 213-240 )
D31, C81
10867 Sara de la Rica
Lucía Gorjón
Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Income Scheme in the Basque Country
In this paper we assess the impact of a Minimum Income Scheme (MIS) which has been operating in the Basque Country, one of Spain's 17 regions, for more than twenty years. In particular, we test ...
(published as 'Assessing the impact of a minimum income scheme: the Basque Country case' in: SERIEs, 2019, 10, 251 - 280)
C14, C21, C52
10866 Marlon R. Tracey
Solomon Polachek
If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment
Data from the first two waves of the Fragile Family and Child Wellbeing study indicate that infants who look like their father at birth are healthier one year later. The reason is such father-child ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 179-190.)
I12, J12, J13
10864 Julia Bredtmann
Christina Vonnahme
Less Alimony after Divorce: Spouses' Behavioral Response to the 2008 Alimony Reform in Germany
The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 17 (4), 1191-1223)
J12, J13, J22
10863 Wang-Sheng Lee
Terra McKinnish
The Marital Satisfaction of Differently-Aged Couples
We investigate how the marital age gap affects the evolution of marital satisfaction over the duration of marriage using household panel data from Australia. We find that men tend to be more ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 337-362.)
D1, J12
10862 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Caregivers in the Family: Daughters, Sons and Social Norms
Daughters are the principal caregivers of their dependent parents. In this paper, we study long-term care (LTC) choices by bargaining families with mixed- or same-gender siblings. LTC care can be ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 130, 2020, 103589.)
D13, H23, H31, I19
10861 Julia Rohrer
Martin Bruemmer
Jürgen Schupp
Gert G. Wagner
Worries across Time and Age in Germany: Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions
We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text ...
(published as 'Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 181, 323-343)
C81, C83, I31, Z13
10860 Xi Chen
Does Daughter Deficit Promote Parental Substance Use? Longitudinal Evidence on Smoking from Rural China
China and some other Asian countries have experienced skewed sex ratios, triggering intense competition and pressure in the marriage market. Meanwhile, China has more smokers than any other country, ...
(paper 1 (results on smoking) published as 'Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? Longitudinal evidence from rural China' in: Journal of Substance Abuse, 2018, 23 (4), 366-370; paper 2 (results on alcohol abuse) published as 'Does daughter deficit promote paternal substance use? Evidence from China' in: Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2018, 2:47)
J13, D12, I19
10858 Francesco Drago
Roberto Galbiati
Francesco Sobbrio
The Political Cost of Being Soft on Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the Italian 2006 collective pardon releasing about one third of the prison ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3305 - 3336)
D72, K42
10856 Farzana Afridi
Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes ...
(also available as: International Growth Centre Synthesis Paper S-35407 - INC-1, 2017)
H11, H41, H53, O43
10854 Esther Hauk
Mónica Oviedo
Xavier Ramos
Perception of Corruption and Public Support for Redistribution in Latin America
This paper studies the relationship between people's beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured by corruption perceptions, and preferences for redistribution in Latin America. Our ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 74, 102174)
D31, D63, H1, H2, P16
10853 Joyce J Chen
Katrina Kosec
Valerie Mueller
Moving to Despair? Migration and Well-Being in Pakistan
Internal migration has the potential to substantially increase income, especially for the poor in developing countries, and yet migration rates remain low. We explore the role of psychic costs by ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 113, 186 - 203)
J61, O15, I31
10852 Durba Chakrabarty
Michael J. Osei
John V. Winters
Danyang Zhao
Are Immigrant and Minority Homeownership Rates Gaining Ground in the US?
This paper investigates post-2000 trends in homeownership rates in the US by immigrant status, race, and ethnicity. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the ...
(published as 'Which immigrant and minority homeownership rates are gaining ground in the US?' in: Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019, 43 (2), 273-297)
R21, J15
10851 Agnieszka Postepska
Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous ...
(published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 606-611)
J15, J62, D1, Z1
10850 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for approximately 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, ...
(published as 'Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 368-372)
J13, J15, K37
10848 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
English Proficiency and Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US
Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children. This paper explores how much of such differences in achievement can be accounted ...
(published as 'English Proficiency and Mathematics Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 102-113)
J13, J15, I20
10847 John Jerrim
Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo
Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez
Nikki Shure
What Happens When Econometrics and Psychometrics Collide? An Example Using the PISA Data
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 51-58)
I20, C18, C10, C55
10846 Herbert Dawid
Gabriele Pellegrino
Marco Vivarelli
The Role of Demand in Fostering Product vs Process Innovation: A Model and an Empirical Test
While the extant innovation literature has provided extensive evidence of the so-called "demand-pull" effect, the possible diverse impact of demand evolution on product vs process innovation ...
(published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2021, 31, 1553-1572)
O31
10845 Angus J. Holford
Access to and Returns from Unpaid Graduate Internships
We use the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Survey (DLHE) to estimate the socio-economic gradient in access to unpaid internships among English and Welsh graduates six months after ...
(published in: Labour, 2021, 35 (3), 348 - 377)
J24, J28, J31
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