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10427 Michael Grimm
Luciane Lenz
Jörg Peters
Maximiliane Sievert
Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 417-454.)
D12, O12, O13, Q28, Q41
10426 Gautam Hazarika
The Plough, Gender Roles, and Corruption
Cross-national empirical studies of corruption commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This finding has been controversial in ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2018, 19 (2), 141 -163 )
J16, D73
10425 Wei Huang
Chuanchuan Zhang
The Power of Social Pensions
This paper examines the impacts of social pension provision among people of different ages. Utilizing the county-by-county rollout of the New Rural Pension Scheme in rural China, we find that, among ...
(published as 'The Power of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 179 - 205)
E21, H55, I38, O22
10424 Zhaopeng (Frank) Qu
Zhong Zhao
Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants during 2002-2007
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 42, 118-144 )
J30, J45, J61
10423 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Hanna Mac Innes
Torun Österberg
Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example
This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each ...
(published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 7:1)
C41, J15, J61
10422 Michael M. H. Tse
Sholeh A. Maani
The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports ...
(published as 'Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration' in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020, 221-246)
J61, J62, J31, J3, J24
10421 Mariacristina Piva
Massimiliano Tani
Marco Vivarelli
Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 1321-1338)
O33
10420 Giovanni Facchini
Yotam Margalit
Hiroyuki Nakata
Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The Impact of Information Campaigns
Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 141, 103959 )
F12, F16, L11
10419 Alexis Grigorieff
Christopher Roth
Diego Ubfal
Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments
We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the ...
(published in: Demography, 2020, 57, 1111-1143)
C9, J15, Z1, Z13
10417 Tommaso Colussi
Ingo E. Isphording
Nico Pestel
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271)
D72, D74, J15
10415 Mike Brewer
Sarah Cattan
Claire Crawford
Birgitta Rabe
Free Childcare and Parents' Labour Supply: Is More Better?
Despite the introduction of childcare subsidies in many countries, the cost of childcare is still thought to hinder parental employment. Many governments are considering increasing the generosity of ...
(published as 'Does more free childcare help parents work more?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 74,102100)
I21, J22
10413 Rania Gihleb
Kevin Lang
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos (eds.), Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job (Research in Labor Economics 48), Emerald Publisheing, 2020, 1 - 26)
J12
10412 Emily McDool
Philip Powell
Jennifer Roberts
Karl Taylor
Social Media Use and Children's Wellbeing
Childhood circumstances and behaviours have been shown to have important persistent effects in later life. One aspect of childhood that has changed dramatically in the past decade, and is causing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1-20)
D60, I31, J13
10411 Milena Nikolova
Sinem H. Ayhan
Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?
This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at the couple level. Using German panel data on married and cohabiting partners for ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 32, 799- 844)
I31, J01, J65
10410 Guido Friebel
Michael Kosfeld
Gerd Thielmann
Trust the Police? Self-Selection of Motivated Agents into the German Police Force
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into this type of public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (4), 59-78)
C9, D64, D73, J45
10408 Sarah Brown
Daniel Gray
Mark N. Harris
Christopher Spencer
Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk
Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background ...
(published as 'Household portfolio allocation, uncertainty, and risk' in: Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, 63, 96 - 117)
C33, C35, D14, G11
10407 Nicolás Salamanca
Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Raymond Montizaan
Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 177, 548-568)
G11, D14, D19
10406 Marco Caliendo
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Helke Seitz
Arne Uhlendorff
Locus of Control and Investment in Training
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57(4), 1311-1349)
J24, C23, D84
10405 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Damian Clarke
The Twin Instrument
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Twin Birth and Maternal Condition' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 853 - 864 / published as 'The Twin Instrument: Fertility and Human Capital Investment' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 3090 - 3139)
J12, J13, C13, D13, I12
10404 Garry F. Barrett
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Labor Supply Elasticities: Overcoming Nonclassical Measurement Error Using More Accurate Hours Data
We measure the impact of measurement error in labor-supply elasticities estimated over recalled usual work hours, as is ubiquitous in the literature. Employing hours of work in diaries collected by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 255 - 265)
J22, C21
10403 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Replication in Labor Economics: Evidence from Data, and What It Suggests
Examining the most heavily-cited publications in labor economics from the early 1990s, I show that few of over 3000 articles citing them directly replicates them. They are replicated more frequently ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 2017, 107 (5), 37–40)
B21, J01, B41
10402 Ian K. McDonough
Daniel L. Millimet
Missing Data, Imputation, and Endogeneity
Basmann (Basmann, R.L., 1957, A generalized classical method of linear estimation of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 25, 77-83; Basmann, R.L., 1959, The computation of generalized ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199 (2), 141-155)
C36, C51, J13
10401 Semih Tumen
Career Choice and the Strength of Weak Ties
This paper argues that the structure (i.e., size and composition) of the informal search network is a crucial determinant of the career decisions of young workers. Building on the search-theoretic ...
(published in: Central Bank Review, 2017, 17(3), 91-97)
J21, J24, J62
10399 Stephan Kampelmann
Benoît Mahy
François Rycx
Guillaume Vermeylen
Who Is Your Perfect Match? Educational Norms, Educational Mismatch and Firm Profitability
We provide first evidence regarding the direct effect of educational norms and educational mismatch on the bottom line of firms across work environments. To do so, we use rich Belgian linked ...
(published as 'Over-, Required and Under-education: Consequences on the Bottom Line of Firms' in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2020, 34 (1), 80-112)
J21, J24
10398 Robert W. Fairlie
Ariel Kalil
The Effects of Computers on Children's Social Development and School Participation: Evidence from a Randomized Control Experiment
Concerns over the perceived negative impacts of computers on social development among children are prevalent but largely uninformed by plausibly causal evidence. We provide the first test of this ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 10 - 19)
I20
10397 John Eric Humphries
Fabian Kosse
On the Interpretation of Non-Cognitive Skills: What Is Being Measured and Why It Matters
Across academic sub-fields such as labor, education, and behavioral economics, the measurement and interpretation of non-cognitive skills varies widely. As a result, it is difficult to compare ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017,136,174 - 185)
J24, I20, D03, D90
10396 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Eilon Solan
Exposing Corruption: Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral ...
(published as 'Electoral Competition, Electoral Uncertainty and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2024, 227, 1056640)
D72, D82, H75, O43, C72
10395 Ellen Garbarino
Robert Slonim
Marie Claire Villeval
Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior: Theory, Estimation and Empirical Evidence
We theoretically show that agents with loss-averse preferences facing a decision to receive a bad financial payoff if they report honestly or to receive a better financial payoff if they report ...
(revised version published as 'Loss Aversion and Lying Behavior' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 158, 379-393)
C91, C81, D03
10394 Ritwik Banerjee
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Marie Claire Villeval
The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action on Competitiveness and Unethical Behavior
We conduct an artefactual field experiment to examine various spillover effects of Affirmative Action policies in the context of castes in India. We test a) if individuals who compete in the presence ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 567-604)
C70, C91, J16, J24, J31, M52
10393 Thomas Gall
Xiaocheng Hu
Michael Vlassopoulos
Dynamic Incentive Effects of Team Formation: Experimental Evidence
Optimal team composition has been the focus of exhaustive analysis, academic and otherwise. Yet, much of this analysis has ignored possible dynamic effects: e.g., anticipating that team formation is ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 28(4), 687-712, 2019.)
C78, C91, M54
10392 Dwayne Benjamin
Loren Brandt
Brian McCaig
Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2017, 15, 25 - 46)
D31, D63, O53
10391 Sarah Kuypers
Ive Marx
Estimation of Joint Income? Wealth Poverty: A Sensitivity Analysis
Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social transfers. However, other financial resources such as savings and assets also ...
(published in Social Indicators Research, 2018, 136, 117 - 137)
I32
10390 Prakarsh Singh
Economics of Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency
The Punjab Insurgency in India (1978-1993) took the lives of over 20,000 people. Yet, there has been little research on the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been ...
(published in: Journal of Punjab Studies, 2015, 22 (2), 231 - 248)
D74
10388 Andrew Seltzer
Jeff Borland
The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on Victorian Labour Markets
This paper examines the effects of the Victorian Factory and Shops Act, the first minimum wage law in Australia. The Act differed from modern minimum wage laws in that it established Special Boards, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 785-821)
J38, N37
10387 Luke Chicoine
Free Primary Education, Schooling, and Fertility: Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper investigates the causal relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (2), 480-498)
O55, J13, I25, I26
10386 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Biology and Gender in the Labor Market
Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering ...
(published in: S. L. Averett, L. M. Argys and S. D. Hoffman (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford, 2018, 513–538 )
J31, A12, Z0
10384 Alison L. Booth
Eiji Yamamura
Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Tournaments: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan
In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (4), 581 - 593)
J16, L83, M5
10383 Chris M. Herbst
The Impact of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems on Families' Child Care Choices and the Supply of Child Care Labor
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 54, 172- 190)
J13, J21, J22, J24, J3
10382 Anthony Lepinteur
Sarah Flèche
Nattavudh Powdthavee
My Baby Takes the Morning Train: Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply Within Households
The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101866)
I31, J12, J22
10381 Martin Kahanec
Mariola Pytlikova
The Economic Impact of East?West Migration on the European Union
This study contributes to the literature on destination-country consequences of international migration with investigations on the effects of immigration from new EU member states and Eastern ...
(published in: Empirica, 2017, 44 (3), 407-434.)
J15, J61, J68
10378 Mercedes Ayuso
Jorge Miguel Bravo
Robert Holzmann
Addressing Longevity Heterogeneity in Pension Scheme Design and Reform
This paper demonstrates that the link between heterogeneity in longevity and lifetime income across countries is mostly high and often increasing; that it translates into an implicit tax/subsidy, ...
(published in: Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 6 (10), 1-21)
D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
10374 Francesc Ortega
Süleyman Taspinar
Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market
Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, 81 - 100)
H56, K42, R33
10373 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Gilles Duranton
Laurent Gobillon
The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (10), 2766–281)
R14, R31, R32
10372 Laura Katherine Gee
The More You Know: Information Effects on Job Application Rates in a Large Field Experiment
This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, ...
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 65 (5), 2077 - 2094)
C93, D01, D83, J21, J22
10371 Holger Görg
Philipp Henze
Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol
Daniel Kopasker
Hassan Molana
Catia Montagna
Fredrik Sjöholm
Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence
This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2017, 71(4), 690-703)
E20, E23, L20
10370 Sandra Broszeit
Ursula Fritsch
Holger Görg
Marie-Christine Laible
Management Practices and Productivity in Germany
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688)
D24, L2, M2
10369 Annette Bergemann
Laura Pohlan
Arne Uhlendorff
Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201)
J64, C41, C33
10367 Julia Bredtmann
Fernanda Martínez Flores
Sebastian Otten
Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (7), 1455-1476.)
F22, F24, O15
10366 Ryan Edwards
Francesc Ortega
The Economic Contribution of Unauthorized Workers: An Industry Analysis
This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 67, 119 - 134)
D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
10365 Ninke Mussche
Vincent Corluy
Ive Marx
The Rise of the Free Movements: How Posting Shapes a Hybrid Single European Labour Market
Intra-EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra-EU labour migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2018, 24 (2), 113–127)
J61
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