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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10218 Paul Anand
Laurence Roope
The Development and Happiness of Very Young Children
The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 47, 825 - 851)
D60, I31, J13
10217 Doris Weichselbaumer
Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that ...
(pubished in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (3), 600-627)
C93, J15, J71
10216 Merle Zwiers
Maarten van Ham
David Manley
Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity
Western cities are increasingly ethnically diverse and in most cities the share of ethnic minorities is growing. Studies analyzing changing ethnic geographies often limit their analysis to changes in ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, 24 (2), e2094)
J15, O18, R23
10214 Barry R. Chiswick
Uzi Rebhun
Nadia Beider
Linguistic and Economic Adjustment among Immigrants in Israel
This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants in Israel. It uses the 2010/11 Immigrant Absorption Survey conducted by the ...
(published as 'Language Acquisition, Employment Status, and the Earnings of Jewish and non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel' in: International Migration, 2020, 58 (2), 205 - 232)
F22, J15, J24, J61
10213 Simone Bertoli
Ilse Ruyssen
Networks and Migrants' Intended Destination
Social networks are known to influence migration decisions, but connections between individuals can hardly be observed. We rely on individual-level surveys conducted by Gallup in 147 countries that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 705–728)
F22
10212 George J. Borjas
Joan Monras
The Labor Market Consequences of Refugee Supply Shocks
The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2017, 32 (91), 361 - 413)
J15, J61, J2
10211 Brian Duncan
Hani Mansour
Bryson Rintala
Weighing the Military Option: The Effects of Wartime Conditions on Investments in Human Capital
Military service is an important vehicle through which young Americans invest in their human capital. Using internal military data, we show that county-level exposure to U.S. combat casualties during ...
(published in Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (1), 264-282)
I20, I22, I26, J22
10208 Samuel R. Bondurant
Jason M. Lindo
Isaac D. Swensen
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime
In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 124 - 133)
I12, K14, K42
10207 Giovanni Russo
Job Design and Skill Developments in the Workplace
We investigate the relationship between job complexity and the skills development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS). The results suggest that ...
(published in: S. W. Polachek, K. Pouliakis, G. Russo, K. Tatsiramos (eds.), Skill Mismatch in Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, 45), Emerald Publishing, 2017, 409 - 445)
J24
10206 Pedro S. Martins
Should the Maximum Duration of Fixed-Term Contracts Increase in Recessions? Evidence from a Law Reform
Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote hirings and employment, particularly in recessions or when permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to let some of ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2021, 68, 106009)
J23, J41, J63
10204 Alexander Hijzen
Pedro S. Martins
No Extension Without Representation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Collective Bargaining
In many countries, notably across Europe, collective bargaining coverage is enhanced by government-issued extensions that widen the reach of collective agreements beyond their signatory parties to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 9(5), 1-31)
J52, J58, J21
10203 Huzeyfe Torun
Semih Tumen
The Empirical Content of Season-of-Birth Effects: An Investigation with Turkish Data
Although the season of birth variable is often used as an instrumental variable to estimate the rate of returns to schooling in the labor economics literature, there is an emerging consensus that the ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 37, 1825-1860)
C26, I26, J13
10202 Dave E. Marcotte
The Returns to Education at Community Colleges: New Evidence from the Education Longitudinal Survey
Community colleges have long been recognized for their potential in providing access to post-secondary education for students of limited means. Indeed, the recent #FreeTuition movement is built on ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2019, 14 (4), 523-547.)
I21, I23, I26
10201 Sabrina Hahm
Jochen Kluve
Effects of the Bologna Reform on Educational Outcomes: Micro Evidence from Germany
The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data ...
(revised version published as 'Better with Bologna? Tertiary education reform and student outcomes' in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (4), 425 - 559)
I21, I28, J24
10200 Nicholas W. Papageorge
Kevin Thom
Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Recent advances have led to the discovery of specific genetic variants that predict educational attainment. We study how these variants, summarized as a genetic score variable, are associated with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association 2020, 18 (3), 1351 - 1399)
I24, J24
10199 Tarun Jain
Pushkar Maitra
Subha Mani
Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India
Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 114, 314-325)
I25, J24, J44
10198 Deepti Goel
Ashwini Deshpande
Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India
Using data from two rounds of the Employment-Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey for 2004-5 and 2009-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste ...
(published as 'Social identity and perceived income adequacy' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 339-361)
J15, O15, P16
10196 Artjoms Ivlevs
Remittances and Informal Work
This paper studies the effects of remittances on informal employment in the migrants' countries of origin, looking both at the remittance-receiving and non-migrant households. Using data from the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1172-1190)
F24, J46, J61, R23, O17
10195 Louise Voldby Beuchert
Maria Knoth Humlum
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Nina Smith
The Short-Term Effects of School Consolidation on Student Achievement: Evidence of Disruption?
We exploit variation stemming from school consolidations in Denmark from 2010- 2011 to analyze the impact on student achievement as measured by test scores. For each student we observe enrollment and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 65, 31-47.)
I21, J24
10194 Robert G. Valletta
Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage ...
(published in: C. R. Hulten and V. A. Ramey (eds.), Education, Skills, and Technical Change, Oxford University Press, 2018)
J31, J24, I23
10193 Michael R. Ransom
Aaron Phipps
The Changing Occupational Distribution by College Major
In this paper we examine the occupational distribution of individuals who hold bachelor degrees in particular fields in the United States using data from the various waves of the National Survey of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 129-171)
I23, J24
10192 Massimo Anelli
The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (6), 2824 - 2868)
I21, I22, I23, I28, J24, J31
10189 Vittorio Pelligra
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Daniel John Zizzo
Responding to (Un)Reasonable Requests
We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary systematically the experimental norm of what is expected from trustees to return to ...
(revised version published as 'Responding to (un)reasonable requests by an authority' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 287-311)
C91, D01, D03, D63
10188 Johannes Abeler
Daniele Nosenzo
Collin Raymond
Preferences for Truth-Telling
Private information is at the heart of many economic activities. For decades, economists have assumed that individuals are willing to misreport private information if this maximizes their material ...
(published in: Econometrics, 2019, 87 (4), 1115–1153)
D03, D82, H26, I13, J31
10187 Julio Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Efficiency-Morality Trade-Offs in Repugnant Transactions: A Choice Experiment
Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and ...
(revised version published as 'Paying for Kidneys? A Randomized Survey and Choice Experiment' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (8), 2855 - 2888)
C91, D01, D63, D64, I11
10186 Eleonora Patacchini
Tiziano Arduini
Residential Choices of Young Americans
Using detailed data on a cohort of young Americans who were in their late twenties and early thirties in 2008, we investigate the importance of forces different from economic incentives in ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 34, 69 - 81 )
A14, C21, D85, R21, Z13
10185 Susan L. Averett
Julie K. Smith
Yang Wang
The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (16), 1127 - 1130)
I10, I18, J15, J16
10183 Benjamin Artz
Amanda H. Goodall
Andrew J. Oswald
Do Women Ask?
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (4), 611 - 636)
J31, J71
10182 Matthew D. Webb
Casey Warman
Arthur Sweetman
Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment
Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18-24. Using a ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 415–430.)
J23, J65, J68
10181 François Maniquet
Dirk Neumann
Well-Being, Poverty and Labor Income Taxation: Theory and Application to Europe and the U.S.
In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microecoomics, 2021, 13 (2), 276 - 310)
D63, H21, I32
10180 Mette Foged
Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials
A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 87-100 )
F22, D19, J16, J61
10179 Alexander Bick
Bettina Brüggemann
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
Hours Worked in Europe and the US: New Data, New Answers
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economic, 2019, 121 (4), 1381 - 1516)
E24, J21, J22
10178 Aysit Tansel
Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir
Emre Aksoy
Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis, Added and Discouraged Workers in Canada' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (7), 929-936. )
E24, J64, J21
10177 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Arne Uhlendorff
Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193)
J64, C41, C33
10176 Niaz Asadullah
Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2017, 41(2): 515-544.)
O12, Z1
10174 Jakub Cerveny
Jan C. van Ours
Martin A. van Tuijl
Effects of a Red Card on Goal-Scoring in World Cup Football Matches
We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 55 (2), 883-903.)
Z29
10173 Clara Welteke
Katharina Wrohlich
Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions
This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 146-163.)
C31, J22, D04
10171 John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
The Rapid Evolution of Homo Economicus: Brief Exposure to Neoclassical Assumptions Increases Self-Interested Behavior
Economics students have been shown to exhibit more selfishness than other students. Because the literature identifies the impact of long-term exposure to economics instruction (e.g., taking a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75 ,55 - 65)
A2, D6, C9, C7, A1
10169 Nekeisha Spencer
Solomon Polachek
Eric Strobl
How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective
This study examines whether hurricanes have any impact on performance in standardized examinations. The analysis uses a panel of thirteen Caribbean countries and over 800 schools for the period 1993 ...
(published in: Natural Hazards, 2016, 84(2), 1437-1462.)
I2, Q54
10167 Ernest Boffy-Ramirez
The Heterogeneous Impacts of Business Cycles on Educational Attainment
In this study I examine the impact of fluctuations in the unemployment rate before high school graduation on educational attainment measured 30 years later. I find evidence that educational ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (6), 554-561)
I2, I22, J1, J18, J24
10165 Nicholas W. Papageorge
Seth Gershenson
Kyungmin Kang
Teacher Expectations Matter
We develop and estimate a joint model of the education and teacher-expectation production functions that identifies both the distribution of biases in teacher expectations and the impact of those ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(2): 234-251.)
I2, D84, J15
10164 David E. Bloom
Elizabeth Mitgang
Benjamin Osher
Demography of Global Aging
Individuals aged 65 years and older currently make up a larger share of the population than ever before, and this group is predicted to continue growing both in absolute terms and relative to the ...
(published in: Jean-Pierre Michel (ed.), Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2017, 3 - 10)
J10, J11, J14
10163 David E. Bloom
Dara Lee Luca
The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, Explanations, Future
Population ageing is the 21st century's dominant demographic phenomenon. Declining fertility, increasing longevity, and the progression of large-sized cohorts to the older ages are causing elder ...
(published in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020 )
J11, J14, N30
10160 R?ta Ubarevi?ien?
Maarten van Ham
Population Decline in Lithuania: Who Lives in Declining Regions and Who Leaves?
Since the 1990s, Lithuania lost almost a quarter of its population, and some regions within the country lost more than 50% of their residents. Such a sharp population decline poses major challenges ...
(published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2017, 4 (1), 57 - 79)
R23, O15, J11, P20
10159 Stephan Kampelmann
François Rycx
Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (15), 1-24)
J15, J16, J24, J31, J7
10158 Bernard Fortin
Safa Ragued
Does Temporary Interruption in Postsecondary Education Induce a Wage Penalty? Evidence from Canada
Data from the Youth in Transition Survey reveal that almost 40% of Canadian youth who left post-secondary education in 1999 had returned two years later. This paper investigates the extent to which ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 108 - 122)
C21, C26, C31, I21, I23, I26
10156 Timothy J. Halliday
Daniel Lederman
Raymond Robertson
Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models: Evidence from Mexico
Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2018, 154 (1), 47 - 73)
F66, J31
10153 Katharina Dyballa
Kornelius Kraft
How Do Labor Representatives Affect Incentive Orientation of Executive Compensation?
Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that labor's interest may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2020, 66 (1), 60 - 90)
J52, L20, G32, M12, C33
10152 Pieter A. Gautier
Bo Hu
Makoto Watanabe
Marketmaking Middlemen
This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2023, 54 (1), 83 - 103)
D4, G2, L1, L8, R1
10151 Michael Jetter
Jay K. Walker
Anchoring in Financial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field
This paper analyzes 12,596 wagering decisions of 6,064 contestants in the US game show Jeopardy!, focusing on the anchoring phenomenon in financial decision-making. We find that contestants anchor ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 141: 164-176)
D03, D81, D83, G11
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