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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9889 Steven W. Hemelt
Rachel B. Rosen
School Entry, Compulsory Schooling, and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Michigan
Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school graduation rate of relatively younger students, but weaken their academic performance ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, 16(4), 1-29)
I20, I21, I28
9888 Charles T. Clotfelter
Steven W. Hemelt
Helen F. Ladd
Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid and later added a suite of non-financial supports. We find little to no evidence ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 56(1), 278-303.)
I21, I23, I24, J08
9887 Yu-Wei Luke Chu
Seth Gershenson
High Times: The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Student Time Use
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws. Previous research shows that these laws increase marijuana use among adults. In this paper, we estimate the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 66, 142-153.)
I18, K32, K42
9886 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Katarina Katz
Torun Österberg
Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure
In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 61 (6), 701 - 720)
D64, I24, R23
9884 Karen Clay
Joshua Lewis
Edson Severnini
Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (3), 698 - 711)
N32, N52, N72, N92, Q40, Q48, Q53, Q56, I15, J24, J30, R11
9883 Anders Frederiksen
Maja Due Kadenic
Mining in Arctic and Non-Arctic Regions: A Socioeconomic Assessment
In this paper, we study how mines change local societies in the Nordic countries with a particular focus on the Arctic region. Our study is based on register data at the municipality level from ...
(published as: 'Mining the North: Local Impacts' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101790)
J2, J15, O12
9882 Andrew E. Clark
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Individual Well-Being and the Allocation of Time Before and After the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombing
There is a small literature on the economic costs of terrorism. We consider the effects of the Boston marathon bombing on Americans' well-being and time allocation. We exploit data from the American ...
(heavily revised version, with Orla Doyle, published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 2065–2104)
I31, J21, J22, F52
9881 Tommy Bengtsson
Anton Nilsson
Smoking Behaviour and Early Retirement Due to Chronic Disability
This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry data from Sweden, we contribute to the literature by accounting for a much broader ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 31 - 41)
I12, J26
9880 Sophie Cetre
Andrew E. Clark
Claudia Senik
Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 445-473)
D1, J13
9879 Melisa Bubonya
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Mark Wooden
Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 150-165)
I12, J22, J24
9876 Michael White
Alex Bryson
Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes
Unions make differences to employee satisfaction that correspond to their effects on individual economic advantage. Panel data reveal how changes in economic circumstance and changes in job ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (4), 360-378)
J28, J51
9875 Ruth Ben-Yashar
Leif Danziger
The Unanimity Rule and Extremely Asymmetric Committees
This paper analyzes how to allocate experts into committees that use the unanimity rule to make decisions. We show that an optimal allocation of experts is extremely asymmetric. To reach the optimal ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics 2016, 64, 107-112)
D71
9874 Matthew Roskruge
Jacques Poot
Laura King
Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. ...
(published in: H Westlund and JP Larsson (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2016)
F22, J15, L26, Z13
9872 Ritwik Banerjee
On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 491-510)
C91, C92, D03
9871 Luis Artavia-Mora
Arjun S. Bedi
Matthias Rieger
Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field
We test whether humans are intuitively inclined to cooperate with or punish strangers using a natural field experiment. We exogenously vary the time available to help a stranger in an everyday ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 133-145)
D03, D63, D64
9870 Pamela Jakiela
Owen Ozier
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (3), 547 - 599)
C91, C93, D01, D74, D81
9868 Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle
Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers
A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096)
J65
9867 Stefan Pichler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (2), 611-659)
I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
9863 Werner Eichhorst
Paul Marx
Caroline Wehner
Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (3), 1-17.)
J42, J48, J68
9861 Fabian Kosse
Thomas Deckers
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Armin Falk
The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of prosociality. In a first step, we show that socio-economic status (SES) as well as the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (2), 434 - 467)
D64, C90
9860 Bradley Ruffle
Yossef Tobol
Clever Enough to Tell the Truth
We conduct a field experiment on 427 Israeli soldiers who each rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome. For every point reported, the soldier received an additional half-hour early ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2017, 20, 130-155)
C93, M51
9859 Ritwik Banerjee
Corruption, Norm Violation and Decay in Social Capital
The paper studies the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust), using data from a lab experiment. Subjects play either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 14–27)
C91, C92, D03
9858 Gadi Barlevy
Derek Neal
Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets
In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 187–246)
J44, J22, M51
9857 David Freeman
Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Luigi Mittone
Procedures for Eliciting Time Preferences
We study three procedures to elicit attitudes towards delayed payments: the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure; the second price auction; and the multiple price list. The payment mechanisms associated ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2016, 126 (Part A), 235–242)
C91, D9
9855 Dirk Sliwka
Peter Werner
How Do Agents React to Dynamic Wage Increases? An Experimental Study
We investigate how workers' performance is affected by the timing of wages in a real-effort experiment. In all treatments agents earn the same wage sum but wage increases are distributed differently ...
(revised version published as 'Wage Increases and the Dynamics of Reciprocity' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 299-344)
M12, C91
9854 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
The Adverse Consequences of Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We run a field experiment to investigate whether competing in rank-order tournaments with different prize spreads affects individual performance. Our experiment involved students from an Italian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 1-18)
J33, J31, J24, D81, D82, C93
9853 Ghazala Azmat
Manuel Bagues
Antonio Cabrales
Nagore Iriberri
What You Don't Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education
This paper studies the effect of providing feedback to college students on their position in the grade distribution by using a randomized control experiment. This information was updated every six ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (8), 3714-3736)
J71, J44
9851 Petri Böckerman
Seppo Laaksonen
Jari Vainiomäki
Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?
We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local ...
(published as 'Does ICT Usage Erode Routine Occupations at the Firm Level?' in: Labour, 2019, 33 (1), 26-47)
J23, J24, J31, O33
9850 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Jörg Heining
Patrick Kline
Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory
We review the literature on firm-level drivers of labor market inequality. There is strong evidence from a variety of fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker or total ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (S1), S13-S70)
D22, J31, J42
9849 Pedro S. Martins
Andy Snell
Heiko Stüber
Jonathan P. Thomas
Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution
It is well known that, unless worker-firm match quality is controlled for, returns to firm tenure (RTT) estimated directly via reduced form wage (Mincer) equations will be biased. In this paper we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36(1), 47-74)
J31, J63, C23
9848 Robert W. Fairlie
Javier Miranda
Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee
Job creation is one of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship, but we know relatively little about the hiring patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2017, 26 (1), 3 - 34)
L26
9847 Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne Lalé
Employment Adjustment and Part-time Jobs: The U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2019, 11 (1), 389-435.)
E24, E32, J21
9846 Patricia Cortes
Jessica Pan
When Time Binds: Returns to Working Long Hours and the Gender Wage Gap among the Highly Skilled
This paper explores the relationship between gender differences in hours worked, the returns to working long hours, and the gender pay gap among highly educated workers. Using a cross-section of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (2), 351-398 )
J16, J22
9845 Danny Cohen-Zada
Alex Krumer
Ze'ev Shtudiner
Psychological Momentum and Gender
We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 135, 66-81)
J16, J24, L83
9843 Laurens Cherchye
Bram De Rock
Selma Walther
Frederic Vermeulen
Where Did It Go Wrong? Marriage and Divorce in Malawi
Do individuals divorce for economic reasons? Can we measure the attractiveness of new matches in the marriage market? We answer these questions using a structural model of the household and a rich ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 505 - 545)
D11, D12, D13, J12
9842 José Alberto Molina
Alfredo Ferrer
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Carlos Gracia-Lazaro
Yamir Moreno
Angel Sanchez
The Effect of Kinship on Intergenerational Cooperation: A Lab Experiment with Three Generations
In this paper, we analyze how kinship among family members affects intergenerational cooperation in a public good game. 165 individuals from 55 families, comprising three generations (youths, ...
(published as 'Intergenerational cooperation within the household: a Public Good game with three generations' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 17, 535 - 552)
D03, D64, D70
9841 Stefano Gagliarducci
Marco Manacorda
Politics in the Family: Nepotism and the Hiring Decisions of Italian Firms
In this paper we investigate the effect of family connections to politicians on individuals' labor market outcomes. We combine data for Italy over almost three decades from longitudinal social ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (2), 67 - 95)
D72, D73, H72, J24, J30, M51
9839 Mikael Elinder
Oscar Erixson
Daniel Waldenström
Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers
We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce relative wealth ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 17 - 30)
H24, D63, E21
9838 Sander Gerritsen
Dinand Webbink
Bas ter Weel
Sorting around the Discontinuity Threshold: The Case of a Neighbourhood Investment Programme
This paper investigates the empirical validity of the setup of a large-scale government neighbourhood investment programme in the Netherlands. Selection of neighbourhoods into the programme was ...
(published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (1), 101-128)
C90, D70, R58
9837 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Katarina Katz
Torun Österberg
Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden
In this paper, we investigate to what degree young adults live in neighbourhoods that are similar, in terms of relative average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use ...
(published in Population, Space and Place, 2017, 23 (4), e2028)
J15, J62, R23
9835 Irene Mosca
Robert E. Wright
Use It or Lose It: Irish Evidence
A small but growing body of research suggests that retirement and cognitive decline are related. In fact, some have argued that retirement causes cognitive decline. The aim of this paper is to add to ...
(published as 'Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1317- 1341)
J14, J26
9834 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Gianluca Mazzarella
Does Postponing Minimum Retirement Age Improve Healthy Behaviours Before Retirement? Evidence from Middle-Aged Italian Workers
By increasing the residual working horizon of employed individuals, pension reforms that raise minimum retirement age are likely to affect the returns to investments in health-promoting behaviours ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 58, 215 - 227)
H55, I12, J26
9833 Zemzem Shigute
Anagaw Derseh Mebratie
Robert Sparrow
Zelalem Yilma
Getnet Alemu
Arjun S. Bedi
Uptake of Health Insurance and the Productive Safety Net Program in Rural Ethiopia
Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In 2005, to deal with the consequences of ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 176, 133-141)
J65, J48, I13
9831 Joseph J. Sabia
Thanh Tam Nguyen
The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Labor Market Outcomes
A number of recent studies have found that medical marijuana laws (MMLs) are associated with increased marijuana use among adults, in part due to spillover effects into the recreational market. This ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 361–396)
J31, J38, I18
9830 D. Mark Anderson
Joseph J. Sabia
Child Access Prevention Laws, Youth Gun Carrying, and School Shootings
Despite intense public interest in keeping guns out of schools, next to nothing is known about the effects of gun control policies on youth gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 61 (3), 489-524)
K4, I2, H7
9829 Kurt Wang
Joseph J. Sabia
Resul Cesur
Sleepwalking through School: New Evidence on Sleep and Academic Performance
Policymakers advocating for later school starting times argue that increased sleep duration may generate important schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2017, 35 (2), 331 - 344)
I12
9828 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke
Joel Mokyr
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (1), 1-70)
E02, J24, N10, N30, O33, O43
9827 Robert A. Hart
Mirko Moro
J. Elizabeth Roberts
Who Gained from the Introduction of Free Universal Secondary Education in England and Wales?
This paper investigates the introduction of free universal secondary education in England and Wales in 1944. It focuses on its effects in relation to a prime long-term goal of pre-war Boards of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 707-733)
I21, I24, I28
9826 Nick Drydakis
The Effect of University Attended on Graduates' Labour Market Prospects: A Field Study of Great Britain
Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 192 - 208)
I23, I26
9825 Simen Markussen
Knut Røed
The Market for Paid Sick Leave
In many countries, general practitioners (GPs) are assigned the task of controlling the validity of their own patients' insurance claims. At the same time, they operate in a market where patients are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 244-261)
H55, I11, I18
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