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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8975 Roland Benabou
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni
Religion and Innovation
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 346–351)
D83, O31, O35, O43, Z1, Z12
8974 Stephan Meier
Matthew Stephenson
Culture of Trust and Division of Labor
Firms exhibit heterogeneity in size, productivity, and internal structure, and this is true even within the same industry. It has been thought since the time of Adam Smith that a firm's internal ...
(revised version published as 'Culture of Trust and Division of Labor in Non-Hierarchical Teams' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40 (8), 1171-1193 (with Patryk Perkowski))
C90, D20, D03
8973 Michael Kirchler
Jürgen Huber
Matthias Stefan
Matthias Sutter
Market Design and Moral Behavior
In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62, 2615-2625)
C91, C92, D47
8972 Marco Caliendo
Anne C. Gielen
Robert Mahlstedt
Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes
Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of unemployed, there is no evidence so far on how it affects their future re-employment ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 218-221)
J64, J61
8971 Philippe Aghion
Ernst Fehr
Richard Holden
Tom Wilkening
The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation: An Empirical Investigation
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo's subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling in practice, both in a setting with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (1), 232–274)
D23, D71, D86, C92
8970 Sarmistha Pal
Impact of Hospital Delivery on Child Mortality: An Analysis of Adolescent Mothers in Bangladesh
The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 143, 194 - 203)
D13, I12, O15
8969 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Martin Karlsson
Therese Nilsson
Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (1), 1101 - 1157)
I15, I18, H41
8968 Roberto Leombruni
Tiziano Razzolini
Francesco Serti
The Hidden Cost of Labor Market Entry During Recession: Unemployment Rate at Entry and Occupational Injury Risk of Young Workers
A unique dataset from Italy is used to study the effect of unfavorable business cycle conditions at entry on future workplace safety of young workers. We find that higher local unemployment rates at ...
(published as 'Macroeconomic Conditions at Entry and Injury Risk in the Workplace' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (2), 783 - 807)
J24, J28, J31
8967 Davide Dragone
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
This paper develops a conceptual framework that can explain why economic development goes along with increases in body weight and obesity rates. We first introduce the concept of novelty consumption, ...
(published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.)
D11, D12, I12, I15, L66, O10, O33, Q18, R22
8966 John V. Winters
Yu Li
Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties
This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in the U.S. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (8), 1956-1973)
I00, Q00, R00
8965 Benjamin Crost
Claire Duquennois
Joseph Felter
Daniel I. Rees
Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines
Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, 379-395)
H56, O13
8964 Andreas Lichter
Nico Pestel
Eric Sommer
Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer
In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ambient air pollution on individuals' productivity by using panel data on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 54-66)
J24, Q51, Q53
8962 Marc Piopiunik
Jens Ruhose
Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 258-282)
F22, J15, K42, R10
8961 Mette Foged
Giovanni Peri
Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (2), 1-34)
F22, J24, J61
8960 Pedro Carneiro
Oswald Koussihouèdé
Nathalie Lahire
Costas Meghir
Corina Mommaerts
Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to ...
(published as ' School Grants and Education Quality: Experimental Evidence from Senegal' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (345), 28-51)
H52, I20, I22, I25, O15
8959 Joshua Angrist
Erich Battistin
Daniela Vuri
In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in the Mezzogiorno
An instrumental variables (IV) identification strategy that exploits statutory class size caps shows significant achievement gains in smaller classes in Italian primary schools. Gains from small ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 216-249)
C26, C31, I21, I28, J24
8958 Seth Gershenson
Erdal Tekin
The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2018, 13(4), 513-544.)
I12, I21, K42
8957 Bente Jensen
Peter Jensen
Astrid Würtz Rasmussen
Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
From 2011 to 2013 a randomized controlled trial has been run in Danish preschools to obtain evidence on improvements of early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The ...
(published in : Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 26-39.)
I21, J13, J24
8955 Joseph Deutsch
Gil S. Epstein
Alon Nir
Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money
We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model ...
(published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2017, 38 (1), 53 - 75)
H4, H42, H8, D8
8954 Benjamin Beranek
Robin Cubitt
Simon Gächter
Stated and Revealed Inequality Aversion in Three Subject Pools
This paper reports data from three subject pools (n=717 subjects) using techniques based on those of Loewenstein, et al. (1989) and Blanco, et al. (2011) to obtain parameters, respectively, of stated ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1 (1), 43-58)
C90
8953 Tjaša Bjedov
Thierry Madies
Marie Claire Villeval
Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (3), 1519–1540.)
C91, D74, L15, H71
8950 Colin P. Green
Fernando A. Lozano
Rob Simmons
Rank-Order Tournaments, Probability of Winning and Investing in Talent: Evidence from Champions League Qualifying Rules
We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. ...
(published in: NIESR Review: Special Issue of Sports Economics , 2015, 232 (1), R30 - R40)
M5
8949 Klara Kaliskova
Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU
This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 58, 749 -775)
C25, H24, H31, J22
8948 Christian Bredemeier
Falko Juessen
Roland Winkler
Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 158, 73-76)
E24, E32, J10, J21
8947 Katja Görlitz
Marcus Tamm
Parenthood and Risk Preferences
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women ...
(extended version published as 'Parenthood, risk attitudes and risky behavior' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 79, 102189)
D1, D81, J13, J16
8946 Noritaka Kudoh
Hiroaki Miyamoto
Masaru Sasaki
Employment and Hours over the Business Cycle in a Model with Search Frictions
This paper studies a labor market search-matching model with multi-worker firms to investigate how firms utilize the extensive and intensive margins over the business cycle. The earnings function ...
(publication in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019. 31, 436-461)
E32, J20, J64
8945 Sonia A. Agudelo
Hector Sala
Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24 (1), 99-134)
J30, F16, J31
8943 John T. Addison
Pedro Portugal
Hugo Vilares
Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession
This paper provides the first definitive estimates of union density in Portugal, 2010-2012, using a unique dataset. The determinants of union density at firm level are first modeled. Next, we draw ...
(revised version published as 'Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(3), 551-576.)
J31, J52, J53
8942 Pablo Agnese
Jana Hromcová
Bubble Economics and Structural Change: The Cases of Spain and France Compared
This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2018, 21 (1), 59 - 79)
J64, O57
8941 Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
Ngo Van Long
Markus Poschke
Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Recent work has documented declines in the labor income share in the United States and beyond. This paper documents that these trends differ between manufacturing and services in the U.S. and in a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 87, 206-231)
O40, O41, O30
8940 Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
Ngo Van Long
Markus Poschke
Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of ...
(published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (3), 1229-1266)
O40, O41, O30
8939 Oliver Falck
Constantin Mang
Ludger Woessmann
Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (1), 1-38)
I21, I28
8938 Georg Graetz
Guy Michaels
Robots at Work
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (5), 753–768.)
E23, J23, O30
8937 Sinem H. Ayhan
Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis
This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It ...
(revised version published as 'Married women's added worker effect during the 2008 economic crisis - The case of Turkey' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 767 - 790 )
C26, D10, J16, J22
8935 Joseph J. Sabia
Mark Wooden
Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia
Using newly collected data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this study presents new estimates of the earnings effects of sexual orientation in Australia and ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (4), 903-931.)
J31, J71
8934 Michael Jetter
Jay K. Walker
Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 119, 96-108)
J24, L83, D84
8933 Juan Carlos Campaña
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use ...
(published as 'Gender norms and the gendered distribution of total work in Latin American households' in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (1), 35-62)
D13, J22, J13, J16
8932 Tiit Tammaru
Magnus Strömgren
Maarten van Ham
Alexander M. Danzer
Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants
Contemporary cities are becoming more and more diverse in population as a result of immigration. Research also shows that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, ...
(published as 'Relations between residential and workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrant men and women' in: Cities, 2016, 59, 131-138)
J15, J61, R23
8931 Chunbing Xing
Jianwei Xu
Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China
This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:8)
J3, E2
8930 John T. Giles
Albert Park
Meiyan Wang
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 68(1), 131-164 )
I20, J24, J30, O15, O53
8929 Paola Andrea Barrientos Quiroga
Niels-Hugo Blunch
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up ...
(published in: Indian Economic Journal, 2018, 66 (1-2), 1-24)
O12, O47, O53
8927 Lucia Ferrone
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have ...
(published as 'Internal migration, children’s schooling and gender gaps in education' in. Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (16), 1807-1829 )
I25, J13, J61, O15
8926 Niels-Hugo Blunch
Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi
The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia
Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2015, 3(3), 417-437)
J24, J31, O15
8924 Joan Monras
Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? I address this question using the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis, an exogenous push factor that raised Mexican migration to the US. In the short ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 3017–3089)
F22, J20, J30
8923 Pierre-Philippe Combes
Sylvie Démurger
Shi Li
Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 152-167)
O18, J61, R23, J31, O53
8922 Oliver Falck
Alfred Lameli
Jens Ruhose
Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (2), 411-438)
D51, J61, R23
8921 Francesco Pastore
The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:11 )
E12, E62, H52, J13, J24
8920 Thomas Beissinger
Nathalie Chusseau
Joël Hellier
Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
A usual interpretation of the high performance of the German economy since 2005 is that the Hartz labour market reforms have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 314-333)
H55, J31, J65
8919 Claus Schnabel
United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180)
J01, J20, J30, J50, P27
8917 Jean-Yves Duclos
Mathieu Pellerin
The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent National Household Survey over the last three decades. We find that the ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2016, 42 (3), 250-273)
J11, J31
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