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16332 Chi Shen
Sha Lai
Qiwei Deng
Dan Cao
Dantong Zhao
Yaxin Zhao
Zhongliang Zhou
Wanyue Dong
Xi Chen
Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on ...
(published in: Health & Social Care in the Community, 2023, 6131486 )
I11, I14, I18, R53
16331 Yen-Chien Chen
Elliott Fan
Yu-Hsin Ho
Matthew Yi-Hsiu Lee
Jin-Tan Liu
How Does Gender Quota Shape Gender Attitudes?
Starting in 2002, each electoral district in Taiwan is required to reserve one seat for women out of every four seats at the local councils, creating a 'zigzag' function of female councilors ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103451.)
J16, J13, I23, D10
16330 Brian Callaci
Matthew Gibson
Sergio Pinto
Marshall Steinbaum
Matt Walsh
The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 through early 2020. ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 25 November 2024)
J42, K21, L40, J31
16327 Ignacio Belloc
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Effects of Lottery Wins on Household Labor Supply
This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual ...
(forthcoming in: Manchester School, 2025)
D13, D31, J22
16322 Zhiming Cheng
Liwen Guo
Massimiliano Tani
Sarah Cook
Air Pollution and Education Investment
Our study focuses on exploring the impact of air pollution on household investment in children's education in China. Air pollution poses a significant risk to some cities in northern China. We have ...
(published in: Energy Economics 2024, 132, 107496, )
Q53, I20, D10
16319 Liwen Guo
Zhiming Cheng
Massimiliano Tani
Sarah Cook
Jiaqi Zhao
Xi Chen
Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship
We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2025, 89, 102327)
J24, L26, Q53
16318 Dmitriy Sergeyev
Chen Lian
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
The Economics of Financial Stress
We study the psychological costs of financial constraints and their economic consequences. Using a representative survey of U.S. households, we document the prevalence of financial stress in U.S. ...
(published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 15 November 2024)
E7, G5
16313 Jacob Nielsen Arendt
Christian Dustmann
Hyejin Ku
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-318)
J22, J24, J61
16311 Stijn Baert
Jolien Herregods
Philippe Sterkens
What Does Job Applicants' Body Art Signal to Employers?
In this study, we present a state-of-the-art scenario experiment which, for the first time in the literature, directly measures the stigma surrounding job candidates with tattoos and piercings using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 217, 742 - 755)
C91, J24, J71
16306 David L. Dickinson
Parker Reid
Gambling Habits and Probability Judgements in a Bayesian Task Environment
Little is known about how gamblers estimate probabilities from multiple information sources. This paper reports on a preregistered study that administered an incentivized Bayesian choice task to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Gambling Studies, 2025, 98, 95- 152 )
C91, D91, D83
16304 Veronica Frisancho
Alejandro Herrera
Silvia Prina
Can a Mobile-App-Based Behavioral Intervention Teach Financial Skills to Youth? Experimental Evidence from a Financial Diaries Study
We study the impact of a mobile-app-based behavioral intervention on youth's financial literacy and financial behavior. To maximize the chances to reach out-of-school youth, we provided access to a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 595- 614)
C93, D90, G41, G53, O12, O16
16303 Margherita Comola
Silvia Prina
The Interplay among Savings Accounts and Network-Based Financial Arrangements: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper studies how formal financial access affects network-based financial arrangements. We use a field experiment that granted access to a savings account to a random subset of households in 19 ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (649), 516 - 535)
C93, D14, G21, O16, O17
16302 Catalina Herrera-Almanza
Fernanda Marquez-Padilla
Silvia Prina
C-Sections, Obesity, and Health-Care Specialization: Evidence from Mexico
This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (1), 139 - 160)
I11, I18, J13, D22
16301 Niklas Elert
Magnus Henrekson
The Profit Motive in the Classroom - Friend or Foe?
Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity ...
(published in: Journal of School Choice, 2024, 19 (1), 163–186)
H42, H44, H75, I22, I28, L88, O31
16300 Mette Gørtz
Miriam Gensowski
The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 97, 102911)
I14, I12, I24, I31
16299 Mindy Marks
Silvia Prina
Redina Tahaj
Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Timing of Transfer Payments: Evidence from the SNAP Program
We study the effect of the timing of SNAP payments on weekly labor supply using data from the CPS. We rely on exogenous variation in the fielding of CPS interviews relative to benefit receipt to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646)
J22, I38
16298 Timothy J. Hatton
The Political Economy of Assisted Immigration: Australia 1860-1913
From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a variety of assisted passages. The colonies/states shared a common culture and sought ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 92, 101565)
F22, N37, N47
16296 Tijan L. Bah
Catia Batista
Flore Gubert
David McKenzie
Can Information and Alternatives to Irregular Migration Reduce "Backway" Migration from The Gambia?
Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 165, 103153.)
O15, F22, J61
16293 Margarita Leib
Nils Köbis
Rainer Michael Rilke
Marloes Hagens
Bernd Irlenbusch
Corrupted by Algorithms? How AI-Generated and Human-Written Advice Shape (Dis)Honesty
Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes an indispensable advisor. New ethical concerns arise if AI persuades people to behave dishonestly. In an experiment, we study how AI advice ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (658), 766 - 784)
C91, D90, D91
16291 Stefan Bauernschuster
Matthias Blum
Erik Hornung
Christoph Koenig
The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany
How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893–1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2025, 96, 101648.)
D72, I18, N34, H51
16289 Quinn Keefer
Thomas J. Kniesner
Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL
We make two main contributions to the literature on work-related injury risk and economic outcomes in the context of American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67(2), 107-136)
D81, J31, J81, Z21, Z22, C23
16287 David S. Jacks
Krishna Pendakur
Hitoshi Shigeoka
Anthony Wray
Later-Life Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition
Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 238, 105192)
H73, I18, J18, N32
16283 David B. Huffman
Collin Raymond
Julia Shvets
Persistent Overconfidence and Biased Memory: Evidence from Managers
A long-standing puzzle is how overconfidence can persist in settings characterized by repeated feedback. This paper studies managers who participate repeatedly in a high-powered tournament incentive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2022, 112 (10), 3141–3175)
D82, D83, J33, L25, L81, M52, M54
16281 Timothy J. Hatton
Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913
Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 2025, 78 (2), 452 - 473)
F22, O33, N73
16280 Aline Bütikofer
Rita Ginja
Krzysztof Karbownik
Fanny Landaud
(Breaking) Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health
We estimate health associations across generations and dynasties using information on healthcare visits from administrative data for the entire Norwegian population. A parental mental health ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S108-S151)
I14, I18, J12, J62
16279 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Jorge Velilla
Pro-environment Attitudes and Worker Commuting Behavior
The private vehicle is, for most developed countries, the prevalent commuting mode of workers, and one of the main source of CO2 emissions. The choice of the mode of transport for commuting trips ...
(published in: Economiy Analysis and Policy, 2025, 86, 1967-1986)
A13, Q52, R41
16277 Mark Drozd
Robert A. Moffitt
Xinyu Zhao
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 289–323)
J16, J22, J24, J64
16274 Timothy J. Hatton
Time on the Crossing: Emigrant Voyages across the Atlantic, 1853 to 1913
I provide a new series of the average duration of emigrant voyages from Liverpool to New York from 1853 to 1913. Time on the crossing fell by 80 percent, from about 40 days to just eight, most of ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2024, 28 (1), 120–133 )
F22, O33, N73
16273 Catherine Haeck
Jean-William Laliberté
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility
This paper uses Census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of career choices - occupations and fields of study - to intergenerational income mobility. We document ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (1), 431–458)
J62, J24
16271 Markus Poschke
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Poor countries have low wage employment and high self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics. 2025, 149, 103684)
O11, E24, J64, L26
16268 Antoine Bertheau
Birthe Larsen
Zeyu Zhao
What Makes Hiring Difficult? Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data
We design a survey that asks firms about the obstacles that discourage them from hiring despite having potential needs. Using Danish administrative data and subjective beliefs elicited from our ...
(this version: December 2023)
J23, M12
16267 Uwe Jirjahn
Jens Mohrenweiser
Variable Payment Schemes and Productivity: Do Individual-Based Schemes Really Have a Stronger Influence than Collective Ones?
While studies on individual-based and collective payment schemes are largely unconnected, there appears to be a widely held belief that individual-based schemes have a stronger influence on firm ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78, 1316-1332)
J33, M52, M50
16266 Ines Helm
Nicolas Koch
Alexander Rohlf
The Effects of Cash for Clunkers on Local Air Quality
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2023, 138, 103576)
H20, H23, Q53, Q58
16265 Jonathan Phares
Jason W. Miller
Stephen V. Burks
State-Level Trucking Employment and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S: Understanding Heterogenous Declines and Rebounds
Some of the U.S. states saw sharper declines in truck transportation payrolls at the onset of the COVID-19 shutdown, and others displayed differing trajectories in the rebound of truck transportation ...
(revised version published as 'Shedding light on truck driver supply and demand: Heterogeneous state-level recovery of trucking employment following the COVID-19 employment shock' in: Transportation Journal, 2025, 65 (1), e12038)
J21, L92, R41
16264 Oded Stark
Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment
Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and COVID-19 cases and deaths," concludes that "a goal of government should be to ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237)
D01, D63, D91, I10, I14, I31, Z18
16262 Anna Bottasso
Massimiliano Bratti
Gabriele Cardullo
Maurizio Conti
Giovanni Sulis
Labor Market Regulation and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand
We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced ...
(revised version published as 'Labor Market Regulations and Firm Adjustments in Skill Demand' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, 105292)
J42, J63, J65, M53
16261 Luisa Wieser
Martin Abraham
Claus Schnabel
Cornelia Niessen
Mauren Wolff
When Are Employers Interested in Electronic Performance Monitoring? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment
This paper examines what affects supervisors' considerations about (not) using monitoring technologies to keep track of their subordinates and their work performance. Following a cost-benefit ...
(slightly revised version published as 'Employers’ Muted Interest in Electronic Performance Monitoring (EPM)' in: S. Pfeiffer et al. (eds.), Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelten, SpringerNature. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2024, 181-202)
M50, D22, J01
16260 Annette Alstadsæter
Bernt Bratsberg
Simen Markussen
Oddbjørn Raaum
Knut Røed
Social Gradients in Employment during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent recovery, and after the dust had settled. While we identify large and socially ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025, 63 (2), 440–514)
E24, J2, J4, J6, J11
16259 Zhong Zhao
Liang Zheng
The Births of New Private-Owned Enterprises in an Environment of State-Owned Enterprises
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply ...
(published as 'The effect of the spatial distribution of state-owned enterprises on the location of private-owned enterprise births' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 64 (1), 136-175.)
L26, L60, L80, R10, R12
16256 Erik Hernaes
Simen Markussen
John Piggott
Knut Røed
The Impact of Pension Reform on Employment, Retirement and Disability Insurance Claims
We evaluate a comprehensive reform of Norwegian early retirement institutions in 2011 through the lens of a parsimonious random utility choice model. The reform radically changed work incentives ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 76)
H55, J22
16255 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018
Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 80, 102012)
I32, P36, R23
16252 Gautam Anand
Aishwarya Atluri
Lee Crawfurd
Todd Pugatch
Ketki Sheth
Improving School Management in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Improving school quality in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is a global priority. One way to improve quality may be to improve the management skills of school leaders. In this systematic ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 97, 102464)
I21, I25, I28
16251 Martina Celidoni
Joan Costa-Font
Luca Salmasi
Mobility Restrictions and Alcohol Use during Lockdown: 'A Still and Dry Pandemic for the Many'?
Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 50,101268)
I13, I18
16248 Nathan Kettlewell
Yuting Zhang
Financial Incentives and Private Health Insurance Demand on the Extensive and Intensive Margins
In countries with dual public and private healthcare systems, individuals are often incentivised to purchase private health insurance through subsidies and penalty. We use administrative data from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 94, 102863)
I13, I18, I12
16247 Jonathan Colmer
Jennifer Doleac
Access to Guns in the Heat of the Moment: More Restrictive Gun Laws Mitigate the Effect of Temperature on Violence
Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures increase violent behavior. In this paper, we consider whether restricting the ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023)
K42, Q51, I18
16245 Francesco Campo
Sara Giunti
Mariapia Mendola
Giulia Tura
Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers
The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe fueled anti-immigration sentiment in receiving areas, with potential unintended consequences for refugee integration. We investigate the heterogeneity of political ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics)
J15, H53, I38
16244 Hélène Périvier
Gregory Verdugo
Where Are the Fathers? The Effects of Earmarking Parental Leave on Fathers in France
Does providing nontransferable months of parental leave earmarked to fathers, as mandated by the European Union to its member countries since 2019, increase their participation? To answer that ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2024, 77 (1), 88-118)
J16, D13, J18
16242 Santiago Budría
Alejandro Betancourt-Odio
Eszter Wirth
Does Internal Locus of Control Get You Out of Homelessness?
This paper examines the role of internal locus of control in shaping transitions into homelessness. The data is taken from a longitudinal Australian dataset drawn from a sample of vulnerable ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2023, 230, 111249)
D31, I32, C23
16239 Rodrigo Oliveira
Alei Santos
Edson Severnini
Bridging the Gap: Mismatch Effects and Catch-up Dynamics in a Brazilian College Affirmative Action
Affirmative action in higher education can lead to mismatch, where students admitted through preferential treatment struggle academically due to inadequate preparation before college. Although some ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 98, 102501)
I23, I24, I28, J15
16238 Elizabeth Brainerd
Olga Malkova
Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth: Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics
Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36 (4), 2309-2345)
J12, J16, J18, P2, P3
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