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8679 Michael Malcolm
George S Naufal
Are Pornography and Marriage Substitutes for Young Men?
Substitutes for marital sexual gratification may impact the decision to marry. Proliferation of the Internet has made pornography an increasingly low-cost substitute. We investigate the effect of ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2016, 42 (3), 317-334)
J12, O33
8678 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Locus of Control and the Labor Market
This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:3,)
J01, J08
8677 Martin Salm
Ben Vollaard
Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk
We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with ...
(revised version published as 'The dynamics of crime risk perceptions' in: American Law and Economics Review, 2021, 23 (2), 520 - 561)
D81, K42, K14
8676 Yuri Andrienko
Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117/118, 141-155)
H24, H31, J13, J16, J22, D13
8675 Karin Halldén
Anders Stenberg
The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform
In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike most previous studies, population register data enable us to directly link a proxy ...
(published as 'The relationship between hours of outsourced domestic services and female earnings: Evidence from a Swedish tax reform'in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2018, 55, 120 - 133)
H2, J13, J22
8674 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Yu Zhu
Intergenerational Mobility of Housework Time in the United Kingdom
This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (4), 911-937)
J16, J22
8673 Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
Erdal Tekin
Jane Greve
Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 21, 196–209)
I1, I12, J1, J13, J22, J24, J3
8672 Timothy J. Halliday
Bhashkar Mazumder
An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models
We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that allow us to estimate the covariance structure of a system of latent variable ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e108-e12)
I0, I12, J0, D3, J62
8671 Climent Quintana-Domeque
Pedro Ródenas-Serrano
Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain
We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the ...
(revised version published as 'The Hidden Costs of Terrorism: The Effects on Health at Birth' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 47-60.)
I12, J13
8670 Badi H. Baltagi
Yin-Fang Yen
Welfare Reform and Children's Health
This study investigates the effect of the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program on children's health outcomes using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) over the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 26 (3), 277 - 291)
I1, I3
8669 Aysit Tansel
Basak Dalgic
Aytekin Güven
Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey
This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.)
D31, D63, J31, J60
8668 Anders Stenberg
Olle Westerlund
The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:22.)
I21, J62, J68
8666 Winfried Koeniger
Julien Prat
Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution
We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can improve the trade-off between equality and incentives by changing the amount of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 1-26.)
E24, H21, I22, J24
8665 Bruce Headey
Ruud Muffels
Two-way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research: Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation
Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2016, 129, 937 - 960)
J01, I12, I31
8662 Max Nathan
Anna Rosso
Francois Bouet
Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44 (9), 1714 - 1733)
C55, C81, L63, L86, O38
8661 Badi H. Baltagi
Georges Bresson
Anoop Chaturvedi
Guy Lacroix
Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination
The paper develops a general Bayesian framework for robust linear static panel data models using ?-contamination. A two-step approach is employed to derive the conditional type-II maximum likelihood ...
(Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 202(1), 108-123)
C11, C23, C26
8659 Dayanand Manoli
Kathleen Mullen
Mathis Wagner
Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement
This paper exploits a combination of policy variation from multiple pension reforms in Austria and administrative data from the Austrian Social Security Database. Using the policy changes for ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (4), 1702-1717)
J26, H55
8658 Luc Bissonnette
Michael D. Hurd
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks
In this paper, we compare individual survival curves constructed from objective (actual mortality) and elicited subjective information (probability of survival to a given target age). We develop a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e285-e303)
C81, D84, I10
8656 Andrew E. Clark
Conchita D'Ambrosio
Simone Ghislandi
Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 591–600)
I31, D60
8654 Nauro F. Campos
Menelaos G. Karanasos
Bin Tan
From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223)
C14, O40, E23, D72
8653 Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort ...
(published in: in Mak Arvin (ed.): Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, 2015, 488 - 502)
O10, O19, F35
8651 Alina Sorgner
Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272)
L26, D22
8649 Antonio Cabrales
Juan J. Dolado
Ricardo Mora
Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries
Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and ...
(published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.)
C14, C52, D24, J24
8648 Werner Eichhorst
Michael Jan Kendzia
Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time
Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has continually experienced a dual labor market. One segment contains the primary segment ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 297–315)
N34, J42
8647 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman
The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372)
D22, J16, J70, M50
8645 Alex Bryson
Rafael Gomez
Tingting Zhang
All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have ...
(published in: Frick, B. (ed.) Breaking the Ice: The Economics of Hockey, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2017)
J1, J24, J31
8644 János Köllő
Bence Czafit
Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers ...
(published as 'Employment and wages before and after incarceration - evidence from Hungary' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies. 2015, 4:21)
K42, J64, J39
8643 Grégory Jolivet
Hélčne Turon
Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (3), 1258-1300.)
C13, D12, D81, D83, L13
8642 Xi Chen
Gift-giving and Network Structure in Rural China: Utilizing Long-term Spontaneous Gift Records
The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This ...
(PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (8): e102104)
C8, D1, R2, Z1
8640 Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Gerhard Riener
The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions
Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (2), e0124732.)
C90, J70, Z10
8639 Lorenz Götte
Annette Cerulli-Harms
Charles Sprenger
Randomizing Endowments: An Experimental Study of Rational Expectations and Reference-Dependent Preferences
An important advance in the study of reference-dependent preferences is the discipline provided by coherent accounts of reference point formation. K?szegi and Rabin (2006) provide such discipline by ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019, 11 (1), 185–207))
D81, D84, D12, D03
8638 Jeroen van de Ven
Marie Claire Villeval
Dishonesty under Scrutiny
We investigate how different forms of scrutiny affect dishonesty, using Gneezy's (2005) deception game. We add a third player whose interests are aligned with those of the sender. We find that lying ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2015, 1, 86-99)
C91, D83
8637 Wang-Sheng Lee
Is the BMI a Relic of the Past?
The most widely used measure of adiposity is to express weight adjusted for height using the body mass index (BMI). However, its limitations such as its inability to distinguish muscle weight from ...
(revised version published as 'Body Fatness Charts Based on BMI and Waist Circumference" in: Obesity, 2016, 24 (1), 245–249)
I10
8636 Lorenzo Cappellari
Anna De Paoli
Gilberto Turati
Do Market Incentives in the Hospital Industry Affect Subjective Health Perceptions? Evidence from the Italian PPS-DRG Reform
We exploit time variation across Italian Regions in the implementation of a prospective pay systems (PPS) for hospitals based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) to assess their impact on ...
(revised version published as 'Do market incentives for hospitals affect health and service utilization? Evidence from prospective pya system-diagnosis-related groups tariffs in Italian regions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A, 2016, 179 (4), 885-905 )
I11, I18
8635 Dimitris Christelis
Dimitris Georgarakos
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study, we study the causal effect of increased health insurance coverage through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 102246.)
D14, I13, G11
8634 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Health Status and the Allocation of Time: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2015, 46 (2), 188-203)
D13, J16, J22
8633 Nezih Guner
Yuliya Kulikova
Joan Llull
Does Marriage Make You Healthier?
We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 162-190)
I10, I12, J10
8632 Luca Nunziata
Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data
We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (3), 697-736)
J15, J61, K42, F22, R23, O15
8631 Johannes Koettl
Olga Kupets
Anna Olefir
Indhira Santos
In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:21)
J61, J68, P25
8630 John T. Giles
Ren Mu
Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 100 (2), 521-544)
O12, O15, J61, Q15, R23
8629 Gregory Verdugo
Public Housing Magnets: Public Housing Supply and Immigrants' Location Choices
This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (1), 237-265)
J15, R50
8627 Govert Bijwaard
Jackline Wahba
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094)
F22, J61, C41
8626 Delia Furtado
Tao Song
Trends in the Returns to Social Assimilation: Earnings Premiums among U.S. Immigrants that Marry Natives
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005-2010 American ...
(published in: The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015, 662 (1), 207-222)
J12, J24, J31, J61
8625 Gil S. Epstein
Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Recently, Constant, Gataullina, and Zimmermann (2009) established a new method to measure ethnic identity which they called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, ...
(published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9 )
F22, J15, Z10
8624 Alisher Aldashev
Alexander M. Danzer
Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction
This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (12), 2308-2326)
J24, I21, P23, O15
8623 Stephan L. Thomsen
Friederike von Haaren
Did Tuition Fees in Germany Constrain Students' Budgets? New Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal or European Labor Studies, 2016, 5:6)
I22, I28, H75
8622 Mehtabul Azam
Geeta G. Kingdon
Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Using administrative data from linked private schools from one of districts in India that matches 8,319 pupils to their subject specific teachers at the senior secondary level, we estimate the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 74–83)
I21, O15
8621 Todd Pugatch
Elizabeth Schroeder
Teacher Pay and Student Performance: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity ...
(published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018, 10(2): 249-276.)
I25, I28, J38, J45, O12, O15
8620 Nicholas Bloom
Renata Lemos
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen
Does Management Matter in Schools?
We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 647-674)
L2, M2, I2
8618 Audrey Light
Andrew McGee
Does Employer Learning Vary by Schooling Attainment? The Answer Depends on How Career Start Dates Are Defined
We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and, in turn, measures cumulative work experience. Arcidiacono, Bayer, and Hizmo ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 57-66)
I21, J24, J31
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