|
No.
|
Author(s)
|
Title
|
JEL Class.
|
|
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
|
|
10844
|
Daniele
Checchi
Silvia
De Poli
Enrico
Rettore
|
Does Random Selection of Commissioners Improve the Quality of Selected Candidates? An Investigation in the Italian Academia
We study a reform occurred in Italy in 2008 in the formation of selection committees for qualifying as university professor. Prior to the reform members of the selection committees were elected by ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (2), 211-247 )
|
M51, I23, D82, J45
|
|
10842
|
Pierre
Cahuc
Stéphane
Carcillo
Andreea
Minea
|
The Difficult School-To-Work Transition of High School Dropouts: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper investigates the effects of the labor market experience of high school dropouts four years after leaving school by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in France. Compared to ...
(pubished in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (1), 159-183)
|
J08, J60
|
|
10839
|
Tomi
Kyyrä
Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
|
Long-Term Effects of Extended Unemployment Benefits for Older Workers
This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until retirement in Finland. We consider a reform that increased the age threshold of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101777)
|
J26, J63, J64, J65
|
|
10838
|
Timothy
J.
Hatton
|
Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe: Preference versus Salience
There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on ...
(published as 'Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 66, 101969)
|
D72, F22, J61
|
|
10837
|
Alexander
Patt
Jens
Ruhose
Simon
Wiederhold
Miguel
Flores
|
International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19(2), 1249-1298)
|
F22, O15, J61, J24
|
|
10834
|
Nina
Boberg-Fazlic
Maryna
Ivets
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
|
Disease and Fertility: Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden
This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101020)
|
I12, J11, J13
|
|
10833
|
Jason
M.
Fletcher
Jessica
Polos
|
Nonmarital and Teen Fertility
This chapter explores trends, causes and consequences of nonmarital and teen fertility in the United States and in selected European countries. First, we describe some key factors, including changes ...
(published in: S. L. Averett, L. M. Argys and S. D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, Oxford University Press, 2017, 195–218 )
|
J12, J13
|
|
10832
|
Gigi
Foster
Leslie
S.
Stratton
|
What Women Want (Their Men to Do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households
The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (3), 23-47.)
|
D13, I31, Z13
|
|
10831
|
Gigi
Foster
Leslie
S.
Stratton
|
Do Significant Labor Market Events Change Who Does the Chores? Paid Work, Housework and Power in Mixed-Gender Australian Households
We examine how men and women in mixed-gender unions change the time they allocate to housework in response to labor market promotions and terminations. Operating much like raises, such events have ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (2), 483-519)
|
D13, J10
|
|
10830
|
Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Melanie
Khamis
Mutlu
Yuksel
|
Women Make Houses, Women Make Homes
This paper examines the persistent effects of historical labor market institutions and policies on women's long-term labor market outcomes. We quantify these enduring effects by exploring ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 145-161)
|
J16, J24, N34
|
|
10829
|
Nicole
M.
Fortin
Brian
Bell
Michael
Johannes
Böhm
|
Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom
This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 107 - 123)
|
J15, J16, J70
|
|
10828
|
Patrick
Gaule
Mario
Piacentini
|
An Advisor Like Me? Advisor Gender and Post-Graduate Careers in Science
We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students and their propensity to stay in academic science. Our analysis is based on an ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2018, 47(4), 805-813)
|
J24, J16, I23, O31
|
|
10827
|
Melvyn
Coles
Marco
Francesconi
|
Equilibrium Search and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women
This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class ...
(revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search with Multiple Attributes and the Impact of Equal Opportunities for Women' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (1), 138-162)
|
C6, J0, J1, N3
|
|
10826
|
Astrid
Kunze
|
The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook on Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, (ed.) Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman, 2018.)
|
J16, J24, J31, J71
|
|
10825
|
Leonie
Gerhards
Michael
Kosfeld
|
I (Don't) Like You! But Who Cares? Gender Differences in Same Sex and Mixed Sex Teams
We study the effect of likability on female and male team behavior in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (627), 716 - 739)
|
C90, J16
|
|
10824
|
Simon
Gächter
Chris
Starmer
Fabio
Tufano
|
Revealing the Economic Consequences of Group Cohesion
We introduce the concept of "group cohesion" to capture the economic consequences of ubiquitous social relationships in group production. We measure group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from ...
(revised version published online as 'Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 06 February 2023 )
|
C92, D03
|
|
10823
|
Jeremy
Clark
David
L.
Dickinson
|
The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Contributions and Punishment: First Evidence
We implement a one-week partial sleep restriction protocol to investigate the effect of sleep deprivation on joint production in a standard voluntary contributions mechanism (VCM) experiment. ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of sleep on public good contributions and punishment: Experimental evidence' in: PLoS ONE, 2020, 15 (10), e0240324)
|
C92, D03, H40, I12, J24
|
|
10821
|
James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
|
Unordered Monotonicity
This paper presents a new monotonicity condition for unordered discrete choice models with multiple treatments. Unlike a less general version of monotonicity in binary and ordered choice models, ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2018, 86 (1), 1 - 35 [revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23497])
|
I21, C93, J15, V16
|
|
10820
|
Laszlo
Goerke
Michael
Neugart
|
Social Comparisons in Oligopsony
A large body of evidence suggests that social comparisons matter for workers' valuation of the wage they receive. The consequences of social comparisons in imperfectly competitive labor markets are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141, 196-209)
|
D62, J22, J42
|
|
10819
|
Francesco
Amodio
Leonardo
Baccini
Michele
Di Maio
|
Security, Trade, and Political Violence
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 1-37)
|
D22, D24, F51, N45, O12
|
|
10817
|
Sarah
J.
Fossett
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
|
Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs
What makes prescription drugs cost so much? The media and Congress say it is corporate greed, while pharmaceutical firms blame federal regulations and an expensive drug development process. This ...
(published in: International Journal o Health Sciences, 2019, 7 (3), 1 - 18)
|
I11, J33, L10
|
|
10816
|
Albrecht
Glitz
Erik
Meyersson
|
Industrial Espionage and Productivity
In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (4), 1055-1103)
|
D24, F52, N34, N44, O30, O47, P26
|
|
10813
|
Christina
Gathmann
Björn
Sass
|
Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children
Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709)
|
J13, J22, J18
|
|
10812
|
Natalia
Danzer
Martin
Halla
Nicole
Schneeweis
Martina
Zweimüller
|
Parental Leave, (In)formal Childcare and Long-term Child Outcomes
We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (6) 1826-1884;)
|
J13, H52, J22, J12, I38
|
|
10811
|
Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
Duncan
Ermini
Leaf
Maria
José
Prados
|
Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program
This paper quantifies the experimentally evaluated life-cycle benefits of a widely implemented early childhood program targeting disadvantaged families. We join experimental data with ...
(revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23479)
|
J13, I28, C93
|
|
10810
|
Rob
Alessie
Viola
Angelini
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Jochen
O.
Mierau
Laura
Viluma
|
Economic Conditions at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood: Evidence from New Cohorts
Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 224, 77-84)
|
I10, I15, J11
|
|
10808
|
Chenggang
Wang
Huixia
Wang
Timothy
J.
Halliday
|
Health and Health Inequality during the Great Recession: Evidence from the PSID
We estimate the impact of the Great Recession of 2007–2009 on health outcomes in the United States. We show that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate resulted in a 7.8–8.8 percent ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 17 - 30)
|
I0, I12, I14
|
|
10807
|
Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
|
War during Childhood: The Long Run Effects of Warfare on Health
This paper estimates the causal long-term consequences of an exposure to war in utero and during childhood on the risk of obesity and the probability of having a chronic health condition in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 53, 117–130.)
|
I10, I12, J13
|
|
10806
|
Michael
A.
Clemens
Jennifer
Hunt
|
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (4), 818-857)
|
J61, O15, R23
|
|
10801
|
Laurent
Davezies
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
|
Regression Discontinuity Design with Continuous Measurement Error in the Running Variable
Since the late 90s, Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs have been widely used to estimate Local Average Treatment Effects (LATE). When the running variable is observed with continuous measurement ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 260 - 281)
|
C21, C14, C51
|
|
10799
|
Tomi
Kyyrä
Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
|
Estimating the Effects of Potential Benefit Duration without Variation in the Maximum Duration of Unemployment Benefits
This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. ...
(published as 'The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101859)
|
J64, J65
|
|
10798
|
Tomi
Kyyrä
Hanna
Onerva
Pesola
Jouko
Kullervo
Verho
|
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion in the Finnish Labor Market
Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job ...
(published as "The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: The Role of Measurement Error in Benefit Eligibility" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 60, 75-83)
|
C41, J64, J65
|
|
10795
|
Nicholas
Biddle
Katja
Fels
Mathias
Sinning
|
Behavioral Insights and Business Taxation: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
This paper presents the findings of two Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that were conducted in collaboration with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The first trial tests the effect of changes ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2018, 18, 30-49)
|
C93, H25, H26
|
|
10794
|
Mitchell
Hoffman
Stephen
V.
Burks
|
Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11(1), 315-348)
|
J24, D03, M53, J41
|
|
10792
|
Antonio
Filippin
Francesca
Gioia
|
Competition and Subsequent Risk-Taking Behaviour: Heterogeneity across Gender and Outcomes
This paper studies if competition affects subsequent risk-taking behaviour by means of a laboratory experiment that manipulates the degree of competitiveness of the environment under equivalent ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 84-94)
|
C81, C91, D81
|
|
10790
|
Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Anne
Brink
Nandrup
Nina
Smith
|
Closing or Reproducing the Gender Gap? Parental Transmission, Social Norms and Education Choice
Over the last decade, the economic literature has increasingly focused on the importance of gender identity and sticky gender norms in an attempt to explain the persistence of the gender gaps. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (2), 455–500)
|
I23, J16, J24
|
|
10788
|
Takao
Kato
Naomi
Kodama
|
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the ...
(published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018)
|
J16, M5, J7, M14
|
|
10787
|
Mahdi
Majbouri
|
Sir! I'd Rather Go to School, Sir!
Military service is a popular method of army recruitment for governments of developing countries that are particularly prone to conflict. This study contributes to the largely under-researched issues ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change)
|
I23, J47, I26, N35
|
|
10786
|
Seamus
McGuinness
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Paul
Redmond
|
How Useful Is the Concept of Skills Mismatch?
The term skill mismatch is very broad and can relate to many forms of labour market friction, including vertical mismatch, skill gaps, skill shortages, field of study (horizontal) mismatch and skill ...
(revised version published as 'Skills mismatch: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Approaches' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32 (4), 985-1085)
|
J24, I20, I28
|
|
10785
|
Xiaodong
Gong
|
The Dynamics of Study-Work Choice and Its Effect on Intended and Actual University Attainment
We study the dynamics of study-work choices of Australian high school students and how these choices affect intended and actual enrolment in universities when they finish their school education. A ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 619 - 639)
|
I21, C33
|
12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
|
|
|
