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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
10784 Nicholas Wilson
Todd Pugatch
Nudging Study Habits: A Field Experiment on Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
More than two of every five students who enrolled in college in 2007 failed to graduate by 2013. Peer tutoring services offer one approach toward improving learning outcomes in higher education. We ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 151 - 161)
D83, I23
10783 Erik O. Kimbrough
Andrew McGee
Hitoshi Shigeoka
How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-To-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely depends on classroom composition in terms of peers' ability. Unfortunately, little ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 304-339.)
I24, C91, I28
10782 Philipp Vom Berge
Hanna Frings
High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 701-729.)
J31, J38
10781 Florian Engl
Arno Riedl
Roberto A. Weber
Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021, 13 (4), 261 - 299)
C92, D02, D72, H41
10780 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Nishith Prakash
Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India
In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2017, 185, 171-178)
H41, I15, J16, O12
10779 Mark Borgschulte
Jacob Vogler
Run For Your Life? The Effect of Close Elections on the Life Expectancy of Politicians
We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of election to political office on natural lifespan. In contrast to previous findings of shortened lifespan among US presidents ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 167, 18 - 32)
I10, M12, J14
10778 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Dozie Okoye
Mutlu Yuksel
Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using ...
(revised version published as 'Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany' in Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 184-208 )
D72, D74, O12, P16, N40
10777 Orley Ashenfelter
The Hedonic Approach to Vineyard Site Selection: Adaptation to Climate Change and Grape Growing in Emerging Markets
This paper shows how the hedonic approach to vineyard site selection can be used in the adaptation of vineyard land to climate change, natural disasters or other exogenous events. The basic idea is ...
(published in: Journal of Wine Economics, 2017, 12 (1), 3 - 15)
O21, Q16, Q18
10776 Olena Y. Nizalova
Edward C. Norton
Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors
With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43, 101038)
I12, J21, J65
10775 Shoshana Grossbard
Sankar Mukhopadhyay
Body-Weight and Women's Hours of Work: More Evidence That Marriage Markets Matter
Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple ...
(published as 'Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6(1), 9.)
J22, I12, J12
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