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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
10150 Jane Arnold Lincove
Kalena E. Cortes
Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students
We examine the role of information in the college matching behavior of low- and high-income students, exploiting a state automatic admissions policy that provides some students with perfect a priori ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41(1), 98-123)
I21, I23, J15
10149 Alena Bicakova
Klara Kaliskova
Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a ...
(revised version published as '(Un)intended effects of parental leave policies: Evidence from the Czech Republic' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101747 )
J13, J18, J22
10148 Esra Kose
Elira Kuka
Na'ama Shenhav
Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's ...
(published as 'Women's Suffrage and Children's Education' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (3), 374 - 405)
I21, N32
10147 David N. Figlio
Paola Giuliano
Umut Özek
Paola Sapienza
Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309)
I20, I24, J15, Z1
10146 Kristiina Kamenik
Tiit Tammaru
Maarten van Ham
EthniCity of Leisure: A Domains Approach to Ethnic Integration During Free Time Activities
This paper takes a domains approach to understanding ethnic segregation; ethnic segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the residential neighbourhood, workplaces, leisure, ...
(published in: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2019, 110 (3), 289 - 302)
J15, R23
10145 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Francisca M. Antman
Can Authorization Reduce Poverty among Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program
We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The identification strategy makes use of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147:1-4)
J15, I32
10144 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Francisca M. Antman
Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Temporary Authorization: Evidence from DACA
This paper explores the labor market and schooling effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which provides work authorization to eligible immigrants along with a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1): 339-73)
J15, J61, J2, J3
10142 Eric Fesselmeyer
Haoming Liu
How Do Users Value a Network Expansion? Evidence from the Public Transit System in Singapore
We estimate the network externality of a public transit system by examining the effects of its expansion on the housing market. Our results show that a major expansion of Singapore's Mass Rapid ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 71, 45 - 61)
H4, R21, R42, H23
10138 Seamus McGuinness
Adele Whelan
Adele Bergin
Is There a Role for Higher Education Institutions in Improving the Quality of First Employment?
This paper examines the potential role of higher education institutions in reducing labour market mismatch amongst new graduates. The research suggests that increasing the practical aspects of degree ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16(4), 12-23)
J24, J31
10137 Govert Bijwaard
Mikko Myrskylä
Per Tynelius
Finn Rasmussen
Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach
Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2019, 73, 217-232)
C41, C32, I14, I24
10135 Reilee L. Berger
John V. Winters
Does Private Schooling Increase Adult Earnings? Cohort-Level Evidence for U.S. States
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census ...
(published in: Review of Regional Studies, 2016, 46 (3), 281-294)
I20, J24, R50
10134 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality
This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132)
I10, I12, J15, J16, Z13
10133 Alex Armand
Orazio Attanasio
Pedro Carneiro
Valerie Lechene
The Effect of Gender-Targeted Conditional Cash Transfers on Household Expenditures: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper studies the differential effect of targeting cash transfers to men or women on the structure of household expenditures on non-durables. We study a policy intervention in the Republic of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1875 - 1897)
D12, D13, E21, O12
10132 Seeun Jung
Chung Choe
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis
In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 112-121)
J16, J24, J31, C91, D81
10131 Abdou Musonera
Almas Heshmati
Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Studies on Economic Development and Growth in Selected African Countries, Springer, 2017)
D63, D91, I15, I25, J12
10130 Elizabeth Brainerd
The Lasting Effect of Sex Ratio Imbalance on Marriage and Family: Evidence from World War II in Russia
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 229–242.)
J12, J16, N34, P23
10129 Grace Lordan
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 110 - 130)
J16, J4
10128 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132, 218 - 257)
D72, D70, J16, H50, M50
10127 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Xiuna Yang
Gang Shuge
Dai Jianzhong
Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises
The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41 (3), 456 - 469)
D64, H84, L26
10126 Adrian Adermon
Mikael Lindahl
Daniel Waldenström
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations
This study estimates intergenerational correlations in mid-life wealth across three generations, and a young fourth generation, and examines how much of the parent-child association that can be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F482-F513)
D31, J62
10125 Guillermina Jasso
(In)Equality and (In)Justice
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded as the first line of defense against self-interest and inequality. Absent a ...
(published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217)
C02, C65, D31, D6, I3
10124 Stephen P. Jenkins
Pareto Models, Top Incomes, and Recent Trends in UK Income Inequality
I determine UK income inequality levels and trends by combining inequality estimates from tax return data (for the 'rich') and household survey data (for the 'non-rich'), taking advantage of the ...
(published in: Economica, 2017, 84, 261–289. )
C46, C81, D31
10123 Till Seuring
Pieter Serneels
Marc Suhrcke
The Impact of Diabetes on Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico: A Panel Data and Biomarker Analysis
There is limited evidence on the labor market impact of diabetes, and existing evidence tends to be weakly identified. Making use of Mexican panel data to estimate individual fixed effects models, we ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 233, 252-261)
J22, I15, D83
10122 Gabriella Conti
Rita Ginja
Health Insurance and Child Health: Evidence from Mexico
We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in Mexico. The Seguro Popular (SP) was rolled out in 2002-2010 across ...
(published as 'Who Benefits From Free Health Insurance: Evidence from Mexico' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (1), 146-182)
H10, I12, I13, J13, O18
10121 Matteo Picchio
Jan C. van Ours
Temporary Jobs and the Severity of Workplace Accidents
From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the ...
(published in: Journal of Safety Research, 2017, 61, 41-51)
C23, J41, J81
10120 Matias Cortes
Andrea Salvatori
Delving into the Demand Side: Changes in Workplace Specialization and Job Polarization
This paper offers the first study of job polarization in Great Britain using workplace level data. We document widespread and increasing occupational specialization within establishments, along with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 164-176)
J21, J23
10119 Delphine Boutin
Migration Experience and Access to a First Job in Uganda
Does experiencing internal migration hasten the access to the labour market? This paper provides an answer by studying the gap in transition length to a first job between young people in Uganda that ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2018, 157, 631 -650)
J15, J61, J64
10118 Jacobus Cilliers
Ibrahim Kasirye
Clare Leaver
Pieter Serneels
Andrew Zeitlin
Pay for Locally Monitored Performance? A Welfare Analysis for Teacher Attendance in Ugandan Primary Schools
Public sector organizations often rely on reports by local monitors that are costly to verify and that serve twin objectives: to incentivize agent performance, and to provide information for planning ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics 2018, 167, 69-90)
D61, H52, I25, I26
10116 Semih Tumen
Informality as a Stepping Stone: A Search-Theoretical Assessment of Informal Sector and Government Policy
This paper develops a model of sequential job search to understand the factors determining the effect of tax and enforcement policies on the size (i.e., employment share) of the informal sector. The ...
(published in: Central Bank Review, 2016, 16(3), 109-117)
E26, J24, J38, J64
10115 Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker
Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 91 - 108)
I10, I15, I18, O10, O13, Q42, Q48, Q53
10114 Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Jan Stuhler
Labor Supply Shocks, Native Wages, and the Adjustment of Local Employment
By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (1), 435–483)
J21, J22, J61, R23
10113 Jan David Bakker
Christopher Parsons
Ferdinand Rauch
Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020, 34 (2), 509 - 532)
R12, R23, N97, O18
10112 Christopher Parsons
Pierre-Louis Vézina
Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment
We provide evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F210 - F234)
F14, F22
10111 Bastien Chabé-Ferret
Joël Machado
Jackline Wahba
Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
This paper studies how return migration intentions affect immigrants' behavior. Using a unique French data set, we analyze the relationship between return plans and several immigrants' behavior in ...
(published as 'Remigration Intentions and Migrants' Behavior' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68, 56-72.)
F22, F24, D14
10110 John Gibson
David McKenzie
Halahingano Rohorua
Steven Stillman
The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments
We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 99-115)
O12, F22, D13, D81, P1
10109 Hillel Rapoport
Migration and Globalization: What's in it for Developing Countries?
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1209-1226)
F21, F22, F63, J61, O11, O15
10108 Jeffrey A. Smith
Arthur Sweetman
Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effects of Policies and Programs
Estimation, inference and interpretation of the causal effects of programs and policies have all advanced dramatically over the past 25 years. We highlight three particularly important intellectual ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2016, 49 (3), 871–905.)
C18, C21, C26, C50, C90
10106 Silvia Avram
Mike Brewer
Andrea Salvatori
Can't Work or Won't Work: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Work Search Requirements for Single Parents
Increasing the labour market participation of single parents, whether to boost incomes or reduce welfare spending, is a major policy objectives in a number of countries. This paper presents causal ...
(published: in Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 63 - 85)
H53, I38, J64
10105 Matthias Sutter
Jürgen Huber
Michael Kirchler
Matthias Stefan
Where to Look for the Morals in Markets?
Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 30-52)
C92, D03, D62
10103 John H. Pencavel
Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours
Observations on munition workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their working hours and days each week, and their working hours and days in adjacent weeks. ...
(published in: Economica, 2016, 83 (322), 545-563)
J24, J22, N34
10102 Getinet Astatike Haile
Workplace Disability: Whose Wellbeing Does It Affect?
The paper examines the link between workplace disability (WD) and job satisfaction (JS) in Britain using linked data from WESR2011. The results obtained indicate workplaces with respondents with ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2022, 43 (3), 1467–148)
J14, J82, J7, I31
10101 Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen
Annie Hogh
Åse Marie Hansen
Long-term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence
Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being exposed to bullying in the workplace increases long-term sickness absence. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 129 - 150)
J15, J24, J81
10098 Karolina Goraus-Tanska
Piotr Lewandowski
Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe
Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2019, 158(2), 297-336)
J08, J31, J38
10094 Julie Christensen
Darius Onul
Prakarsh Singh
Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor
We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2018, 44, 18-29)
J1, F2, O1
10091 Seth Gershenson
Michael S. Hayes
Short-Run Externalities of Civic Unrest: Evidence from Ferguson, Missouri
We document externalities of the civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Difference-in-differences and synthetic control method estimates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (3), 663-685.)
I2, R00
10090 Kirill Borissov
Stefano Bosi
Thai Ha-Huy
Leonor Modesto
Inequality and Growth: The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's ...
(published as 'Heterogeneous human capital, inequality and growth: The role of patience and skills' in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 (4), 399-419)
J24, O15, O40
10089 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality
This paper studies the influence of family, schools and neighborhoods on life-cycle earnings inequality. We develop an earnings dynamics model linking brothers, schoolmates and teenage parish ...
(revised version published as 'Family, Community and Long-Term Socioeconomic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 131 (636), 1515 -1554)
D31, J62
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