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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10053 Maria Laura Di Tommaso
Silvia Mendolia
Dalit Contini
The Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from Italian Data
Gender differences in the STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines are widespread in most OECD countries and mathematics is the only subject where typically girls tend to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 58, 32-42.)
J16, I24, C31
10051 Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta
Giuseppe Lubrano Lavadera
Francesco Pastore
Much Ado About Nothing? The Wage Effect of Holding a Ph.D. Degree But Not a Ph.D. Job Position
This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph.D. holders. We analyze data collected in 2009 by the Italian National Institute of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 243-277)
C26, I23, I26, J13, J24, J28
10050 Martin Biewen
Stefanie Seifert
Potential Parenthood and Career Progression of Men and Women: A Simultaneous Hazards Approach
We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of upward, downward and horizontal job changes with individual fertility. In contrast ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18, 1-22)
J6, J7, M5
10049 Ira N. Gang
Kseniia Gatskova
John Landon-Lane
Myeong-Su Yun
Vulnerability to Poverty: Tajikistan During and After the Global Financial Crisis
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 138 (3), 925 - 951 )
J60, D63, I32
10048 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Subha Mani
Prakarsh Singh
Searching for Religious Discrimination among Anganwadi Workers in India: An Experimental Investigation
This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. ...
(published as 'Searching for religious discrimination among childcare workers' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 362 - 382 )
C9, D3, I1, O1
10047 Getinet Astatike Haile
Intergenerational Mobility in Income and Economic Status in Ethiopia
Using data from two comprehensive national labour force surveys conducted in 2005 and 2013, this paper examines the extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia using monetary and non-monetary ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-economic Status in Ethiopia' in: Journal of International Development, 2018, 30 (8), 1392 - 1413)
J62, D31
10045 Zhao Chen
Tony Fang
Chinese Returnees and High-tech Sector Outward FDI: The Case of Changzhou
The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2016, 15 (3), 195-215)
F21, M16, F23
10044 Yolanda Fatima Rebollo-Sanz
Núria Rodríguez-Planas
When the Going Gets Tough... Financial Incentives, Duration of Unemployment and Job-Match Quality
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the replacement rate (RR) from 60% to 50% after 180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 119-163)
C41, J64
10043 Paul Willman
Alex Bryson
John Forth
UK Trades Unions and the Problems of Collective Action
This paper looks at the financial resources of trades unions in the UK, both updating previous work and attempting to understand the management of first and second order collective action problems. ...
(published as 'UK Unions, Collective Action and the Cost Disease' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (2), 447 - 470)
J51
10042 Alex Bryson
John Forth
What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth ...
(published as 'Management Practices and SME Performance' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 66 (4), 527 - 558)
L25, M12, M50, M53
10041 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
Competitive Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Results
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the ...
(published as: 'Business Strategy, Performance Appraisal and Firm Performance' in: Personnel Review, 2021, 50 (2), 515-534.)
M12, M52
10039 George Wehby
Dhaval M. Dave
Robert Kaestner
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health
The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, ...
(published in. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (2), 411 - 443)
I1, I3, J2, J3
10038 Christian Grund
Maike Rubin
Social Comparisons of Wage Increases and Job Satisfaction
We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49, 1345-1350)
M52, J28, J31
10037 Xi Chen
Tianyu Wang
Susan Busch
Does Money Relieve Depression? Evidence from Social Pension Expansions in China
We estimate the impact of pension enrollment on mental well-being using China's New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS), the largest existing pension program. Since its launch in 2009, more than 400 million ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 220, 411-420.)
H55, I18, I38, J14
10036 David Hummels
Jakob R. Munch
Chong Xiang
No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Effort, Injury, and Illness
Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
I1, F1, J2, F6
10035 Grace Weishi Gu
Samreen Malik
Dario Pozzoli
Vera Rocha
Trade Induced Skill Upgrading: Lessons from the Danish and Portuguese Experiences
We study how the skill distribution for an economy responds to changes in the skill premium induced by trade integration. Using administrative data for Denmark (1993- 2012) and Portugal (1993-2011), ...
(revised version published as 'Trade-induced skill polarization' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 241 - 259)
F16, J24
10032 Kelvin Seah
Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement
Using a dataset which allows students to be linked to their teachers, this paper examines how educators with an immigrant background affect the academic achievements of secondary school students in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51C, 152-169)
I21, J15, J61
10031 Simone Bertoli
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Sekou Keita
The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants
The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (11), 1822-1834)
F22, J31, J38, J61, O15
10030 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Almudena Sevilla
Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States
Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. We exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 158, 63-78.)
I38, J15, K37
10029 Christian Dustmann
Francesco Fasani
Biagio Speciale
Illegal Migration and Consumption Behavior of Immigrant Households
We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (3), 654 - 691)
F22, D12, K42
10028 Xin Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang
Xi Chen
Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2017, 137, 29 - 36 )
Q51, Q53, I31
10027 Tom Chang
Joshua Graff Zivin
Tal Gross
Matthew Neidell
The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 151-172)
J22, J24, Q51, Q53
10026 Raymond Robertson
Drusilla Brown
Rajeev Dehejia
Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia
A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants ...
(published in: Reivew of Development Economics, 2021, 15 (1), 228 - 254)
J8, J5, J3
10022 Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Rocco
Is Childcare Bad for the Mental Health of Grandparents? Evidence from SHARE
We estimate the causal effects of regular and occasional grandchild care on the depression of grandmothers and grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and ...
(published as 'Grandparents in the blues. The effect of childcare on grandparents' depression' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2017,190, 67-74)
J13, I12
10021 Janneke Pieters
Samantha Rawlings
Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 18(1), 207-237)
I12, J13, J69, O15
10020 Aysit Tansel
Deniz Karao?lan
The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence from Turkey
This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Education on Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey: Instrumental Varable Estimates from a Developing Country' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2019, 31 (5),1416-1448. )
I10, I12, I19
10019 Yonas Alem
Hannah Behrendt
Michèle Belot
Aniko Biro
Mind, Behaviour and Health: A Randomised Experiment
Behavioural attitudes towards risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (11), e0258172)
C81, C91, D81, I10, I12
10018 Mehtabul Azam
Does Social Health Insurance Reduce Financial Burden? Panel Data Evidence from India
Indian government launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national health insurance scheme, in 2008 that provides cashless health services to poor households in India. We evaluate the ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 1-17)
I1, I18, I38
10016 Xi Chen
Old-Age Pension and Extended Families: How is Adult Children's Internal Migration Affected?
This paper makes use of the most recent social pension reform in rural China to examine whether receipt of the pension payment equips adult children of pensioners to migrate. Employing a regression ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, 34(4), 646–659)
H55, I38, J14, J22
10015 Michael Jetter
Sabine Laudage
David Stadelmann
The Intimate Link between Income Levels and Life Expectancy: Global Evidence from 213 Years
Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2019, 100 (4), 1387 - 1403)
I15, I31, J11, H51
10014 Umut Oguzoglu
Cain Polidano
Ha Vu
Impacts from Delaying Access to Retirement Benefits on Welfare Receipt and Expenditure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Governments are responding to fiscal pressures associated with aging populations by increasing the eligibility age for publicly-funded retirement benefits. However, recent studies show large ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2020, 96 (312), 65–86)
H53, J26, J01
10013 Kadir Atalay
Garry F. Barrett
Pension Incentives and the Retirement Decisions of Couples
Recent reforms to social security in many countries have sought to delay retirement. Given the family context in which retirement decisions are made, social security reforms have potentially ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 735 - 767)
D91, I38, J26
10012 Lester Lusher
Vasil Yasenov
Gender Performance Gaps: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Gender Differences in Sleep Cycles
Sleep studies suggest that girls go to sleep earlier, are more active in the morning, and cope with sleep deprivation better than boys. We provide the first causal evidence on how gender differences ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry; 2018, 56 (1), 252 - 262)
H52, I20, I21
10009 Angus J. Holford
Youth Employment and Academic Performance: Production Functions and Policy Effects
We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our ...
(published in: Labout Economics, 2020, 63, 101806)
C35, I21, J22, J24
10008 José Alberto Molina
Alberto Alcolea
Alfredo Ferrer
David Iñiguez
Alejandro Rivero
Gonzalo Ruiz
Alfonso Tarancón
Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among ...
(published as 'Network analysis to measure academic performance in Economics' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 995 - 1018)
A11, C45, C63, D85, I23, Y91
10007 Christopher Jepsen
Peter R. Mueser
Kyung-Seong Jeon
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to Proprietary Schooling
This paper provides novel evidence on the labor-market returns to proprietary (also called for-profit) postsecondary school attendance. Specifically, we link administrative records on proprietary ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Resources)
J24, I26
10006 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Elias Dinopoulos
Bulent Unel
Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality
The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We propose a simple model where firms producing varieties face labor-market frictions ...
(revised version published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2018, 100 (4), 345-362)
D43, E24, G21, J31, J64, L11
10005 James J. Heckman
Chase O. Corbin
Capabilities and Skills
This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development ...
(published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2016, 17 (3), 342 - 359)
D63, D04, D31, I31
10004 Huzeyfe Torun
Semih Tumen
The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 16-35)
C21, I21, I26, J21, J31
10003 Kaisa Kotakorpi
Panu Poutvaara
Marko Terviö
Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2017, 33 (3), 413–442)
D72, J45
10002 Pieter Serneels
Kathleen Beegle
Andrew Dillon
Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?
Returns to education remain an important parameter of interest in economic analysis. A large literature estimates returns to education in the labor market, often carefully addressing issues such as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 5-17)
J24, J31, C83
10001 Ludger Woessmann
The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31)
I21, H52, L38, J24, D02
10000 Rasmus Landersø
James J. Heckman
The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (1), 178 - 230)
I32, I28, I24, P51
9999 Corrado Giulietti
Enrico Rettore
Sara Tonini
The Chips Are Down: The Influence of Family on Children's Trust Formation
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 211 - 233)
J62, P16, Z1
9998 Sebastian Fehrler
Wojtek Przepiorka
Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness
People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171)
C92, H41
9997 Michal Bauer
Christopher J. Blattman
Julie Chytilová
Joseph Henrich
Edward Miguel
Tamar Mitts
Can War Foster Cooperation?
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74)
C80, D74, H56, O10, O12, O40
9995 Miriam Bruhn
Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico
The rise in unemployment during an economic crisis poses a significant concern to policy makers. This paper measures the effect of a program in Mexico that granted firms in certain industries wage ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (8), 1558 - 1577)
J23, H32, L60
9992 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ali M. Kutan
Sudipa Majumdar
How Successful Are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2018, 24 (12), 1047 - 1062)
E52, G21, G28, G32, O16
9991 Samuele Poy
Simone Schüller
Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy
This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure ...
(revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861 )
D72, L82, L86
9990 Michal Kolesár
Christoph Rothe
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable
We consider inference in regression discontinuity designs when the running variable only takes a moderate number of distinct values. In particular, we study the common practice of using confidence ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (8), 2277 - 2304)
C13, C14, C21, C25
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