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9565 Bram Cadsby
Jim Engle-Warnick
Tony Fang
Fei Song
Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Tournaments are widely used to assign bonuses and determine promotions because of the link between relative performance and rewards. However, performing relatively well (poorly) may also yield ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79)
J30, J24, J33, C93, C91
9564 Mario Lackner
Rudi Stracke
Uwe Sunde
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Are Competitors Forward Looking in Strategic Interactions? Evidence from the Field
This paper investigates empirically whether decision makers are forward looking in dynamic strategic interactions. In particular, we test whether decision makers in multi-stage tournaments take ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, 2020, 179, 544-565)
D84, D90, M51, J33
9562 Hugo Reis
Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan
The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling and mothers' labor market participation decision, in a rural area of Pakistan ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2020, 61 (2), 783-819)
I25, I28
9561 Oana Borcan
Mikael Lindahl
Andreea Mitrut
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?
We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (1), 180-209)
I21, I24, K42
9560 Leanne Giordono
Todd Pugatch
Informal Fee Elimination and Student Performance: Evidence from The Gambia
Informal school fees – for uniforms, books, and other supplies – are substantial in developing countries, often several times formal tuition. We evaluate a scholarship program that alleviated ...
(published as 'Non-tuition Costs, School Access and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2017, 26 (2), 140-168. )
O15, I21, I25
9559 Pau Balart
Matthijs Oosterveen
Dinand Webbink
Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 63, 134-153)
J24
9558 Seth Gershenson
Alison Jacknowitz
Andrew Brannegan
Are Student Absences Worth the Worry in U.S. Primary Schools?
Student absences are a potentially important, yet understudied, input in the educational process. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative survey and rich administrative records from ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2017, 12(2): 137-165.)
I21
9556 Stijn Baert
Bart Cockx
Matteo Picchio
Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School
A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short- (end-of-year evaluation) and long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (3), 403 - 424)
C33, C35, I21
9555 Eric A. Hanushek
Jens Ruhose
Ludger Woessmann
Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (4), 447-486)
I21, J24, O47
9554 Stephen B. Holt
Seth Gershenson
The Impact of Teacher Demographic Representation on Student Attendance and Suspensions
Representative bureaucracy theory is central to public administration scholarship due to the likely relationship between the demographic composition of the public workforce and both the actual and ...
(published in: Policy Studies Journal, 2019, 47(4), 1063-1093.)
I2
9553 Andrew C. Eggers
Ronny Freier
Veronica Grembi
Tommaso Nannicini
Regression Discontinuity Designs Based on Population Thresholds: Pitfalls and Solutions
In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2018, 62 (1), 210-229)
C21, D72
9552 Juan Chaparro
Aaron Sojourner
Same Program, Different Outcomes: Understanding Differential Effects from Access to Free, High-Quality Early Care
The Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) was designed to promote the development of low-birth weight (up to 2,500 grams) and premature (up to 37 weeks gestational age) infants. There is ...
(published as 'Differential effects from access to high-quality early care' in: In A.J. Reynolds, J.A. Temple (eds.): Sustaining Early Childhood Learning Gains, Cambridge, 2019)
J13, J24, O15
9551 Sinem H. Ayhan
Selin Pelek
State Dependence in Welfare Benefits in a Non-Welfare Context
This study contributes to the ongoing debate about welfare dependency centered on the western societies through an empirical analysis, within the context of a developing country. It examines state ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 711-735)
I30, I38, J18, C23
9549 Kathleen Mullen
Stefan Staubli
Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal
A key component for estimating the optimal size and structure of disability insurance (DI) programs is the elasticity of DI claiming with respect to benefit generosity. Yet, in many countries, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 49-63)
H55, J14, J22
9545 Carmen Camacho
Fabio Mariani
Luca Pensieroso
Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy
We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24, 1050-1080)
O17, F22, J61
9544 Silvia Mendolia
Alex Tosh
Oleg Yerokhin
Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data
This paper investigates the relationship between neighbourhood ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity and the formation of an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and ...
(published in Economic Record, 2016, 92 (299): 648-665.)
J15, Z10
9542 Maurice Schiff
Ability Drain
Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of the Fortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain ...
(published as 'Ability drain: size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1337- 1354)
F22, J24, J61, O15
9541 Evans Jadotte
Xavier Ramos
The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti
We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime international remittances recipient country in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region relative to its ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (12), 1810-1825. )
C39, F22, F24, J22
9540 Milena Nikolova
Monica Roman
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries
The fall of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe restored ordinary citizens' rights and freedoms and ended their political and social isolation. While the freedom of movement was quickly embraced, ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (3), 658 - 684 )
I30, I31, F22, P30, Z10
9539 Ken Clark
Stephen Drinkwater
Catherine Robinson
Self?Employment amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata
Self-employment constitutes a vital part of the economy since entrepreneurs can provide not only employment for themselves but also for others. The link between self-employment and immigration is, ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (4), 1047-1069)
J61, F22, J21
9538 Simone Bertoli
Vianney Dequiedt
Yves Zenou
Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 100-109)
F22, K37, J61
9537 Khalid Sekkat
Ariane Szafarz
Ilan Tojerow
Women at the Top in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is ...
(published as 'Female corporate owners and female CEOs' in: Economics Letters, 2023, 232, 111285)
O15, J71, G32, M51, D22
9536 Stijn Baert
Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based ...
(revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2018, 65 (8), 1015 - 1031)
C91, J15, J71
9535 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Julie Moschion
Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement
This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (4), 1093–1134)
J16, I21, I24
9534 Francine D. Blau
Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4)
J13, J16, J22, J24, J61
9533 Karin Hederos Eriksson
Anders Stenberg
Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: Evidence from Sweden
Bertrand et al. (2015) show that among married couples in the US, the distribution of the share of the household income earned by the wife exhibits a sharp drop just to the right of .50. They argue ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (3), 744 - 772)
D10, J12, J16
9532 Wei Huang
Yi Zhou
One-Child Policy, Marriage Distortion, and Welfare Loss
Using plausibly exogenous variations in the ethnicity-specific assigned birth quotas and different fertility penalties across Chinese provinces over time, we provide new evidence for the transferable ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 May 2023)
H20, I31, J12, J13, J18
9531 Anna Kurowska
Michal Myck
Katharina Wrohlich
Making Work Pay: Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children
In-work support through the tax-benefit system has proved to be an effective way of increasing labour supply of lone mothers and first earners in couples in a number of OECD countries. At the same ...
(published in: Contemporary Economics, 2017, 11(2), 161-170)
J22, J13, J18
9530 Ann P. Bartel
Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jenna Stearns
Jane Waldfogel
Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers' leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2018, 37 (1), 10-37)
J2, J13, J18
9529 David Neumark
Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 5, 6 (2016) )
J2, J3, J6
9528 Jan Kabátek
Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands
This paper investigates the effects of the age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. The Dutch minimum wage for workers aged 15-23 is defined as a step-wise increasing ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021,74 (4), 1008 - 1035)
J23, J31, J38, M51
9527 Robert E. Hall
Andreas I. Mueller
Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior
We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (4), 1594-1637)
J31, J32, J64
9526 Abel Brodeur
Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period ...
(published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82)
D72, D74, C13, P16
9525 Carlos Carrillo-Tudela
Michael Graber
Klaus Wälde
Unemployment and Vacancy Dynamics with Imperfect Financial Markets
This paper proposes a simple general equilibrium model with labour market frictions and an imperfect financial market. The aim of the paper is to analyse the transitional dynamics of unemployment and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 50, 128-143)
J63, J64, G10
9522 Sriya Iyer
Anand Shrivastava
Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India
The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour in democratic societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 131, 104-122)
Z12, D72, D74
9519 Xi Chen
Status Concern and Relative Deprivation in China: Measures, Empirical Evidence, and Economic and Policy Implications
Status concern and the feelings of relative deprivation affect individual behavior and well-being. Traditional norms and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more ...
(published in: China: An International Journal, 2016, 14 (1), 151-170.)
I14, I18, I32, B41
9518 Mehtabul Azam
Intergenerational Educational Persistence among Daughters: Evidence from India
We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962-1991. We find that educational persistence, as measured by the regression ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16 (4), 201601146)
J6, I28
9517 Laurent Gobillon
Matthieu Solignac
Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows
We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how this difference evolves over the 1975-1999 period, by using a large ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20(2), 355-396)
J15, R21
9516 Remus Gabriel Anghel
Matloob Piracha
Teresa Randazzo
Migrants' Remittances: Channelling Globalization
In the past twenty years the ever-growing levels of migrants' remittances made state agencies, international organizations, scholars and practitioners to increasingly consider remittances as one of ...
(revised version published in: Leila Simona Talani and Simon McMahon (eds.), Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration, Edward Elgar 2015, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 11, 234-258.)
F22, F24
9515 Barbara Dietz
Kseniia Gatskova
Artjoms Ivlevs
Emigration, Remittances and the Education of Children Staying Behind: Evidence from Tajikistan
We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (3), 96-118)
I26, J61, O15
9514 Mariana Saenz
Joshua J. Lewer
Colombian Emigration by Administrative Regions
This article contributes to immigration literature by applying a Random Utility Maximization model to derive a migration gravity model that explains factors affecting migration outflows per ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Insight, 2017, 43 (2), 17-48.)
F22, C25, H11
9513 Artjoms Ivlevs
Michail Veliziotis
Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50 (1), 175-193)
F22, J15, I31
9512 John V. Winters
Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (3), 629-649)
J24, J61, R23
9511 Xuan Chen
Carlos A. Flores
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) training program for ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099)
J30, C13, C21
9510 David C. Maré
Dean R. Hyslop
Richard Fabling
Firm Productivity Growth and Skill
This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2017, 51 (3), 302-326)
D24, J24
9509 Michael Coelli
Domenico Tabasso
Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?
We investigate the labour market determinants and outcomes of adult participation in formal education (lifelong learning) in Australia, a country with high levels of adult education. Employing ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (1), 205-237)
J24, J28, I23, I28
9508 Peter B. Berg
Mary K. Hamman
Matthew Piszczek
Christopher J. Ruhm
The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany
In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for ...
(published as 'The relationship between employer-provided training and the retention of older workers: Evidence from Germany' in: International Labour Review, 2017, 156 (3-4), 495-523)
J20, J24, J26
9507 Tobias Meyer
Stephan L. Thomsen
Heidrun Schneider
New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions
Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e201-e253. )
I21, J18, C21
9506 Robert Feicht
Veronika Grimm
Holger A. Rau
Gesine Stephan
On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining
We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all treatments a proposer has to divide a pie among herself and two groups of three ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192. )
C92, C72, C78, J31, J52
9505 Semih Tumen
Tugba Zeydanli
Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction
The literature documents that job satisfaction is positively correlated with worker performance and productivity. We examine whether aggregate job satisfaction in a certain labor market environment ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37(3), 426-455)
C31, D62, J28
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