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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8122 Ritashree Chakrabarti
Junfu Zhang
Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities
It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to ...
(shorter version published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52(6), 1134-1151)
R11, R12, R13
8120 Mthuli Ncube
Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Zorobabel Bicaba
Can Dreams Come True? Eliminating Extreme Poverty in Africa by 2030
With the year 2015 – the MDG finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank ...
(revised version published as 'Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030?' in: Journal of African Development, 2017, 19 (2), 93 - 110)
I32, E21, J11, C63
8118 Orley Ashenfelter
The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor
This paper contains a review of the early history of program evaluation research at the US Department of Labor. Some broad lessons for successful evaluation research are summarized.
(published in: ILR Review, 2014, 63 (3S), 574 - 577)
B4, C21, J8
8116 Miki Kobayashi
Emiko Usui
Breastfeeding Practices and Parental Employment in Japan
Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 579–596)
J13
8115 Jochen Kluve
Sebastian Schmitz
Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after ...
(revised version published as 'Back to Work: parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium-run' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2018, 71 (1), 143 - 173 )
H31, J13, J22
8113 Astrid Kunze
Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of children on male earnings and inequality' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 18, 683 - 710, 2020)
J22, J24, J31, J13, J16
8112 Christian Grund
Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter
Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126)
M52, J31, J33
8111 Andrew Henley
Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the strength of the potential relationship between entrepreneurial activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and ...
(published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617)
L26, M13, O43, Z12
8110 Joop Hartog
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 125-153)
I21, J22, J24, J31
8109 Tim Friehe
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.)
K42, H23, C91
8108 Wendelin Schnedler
Christoph Vanberg
Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115)
D1, M5, D8, D4, C9
8107 Michal Bauer
Nathan Fiala
Ian Levely
Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.)
C93, D03, D74, O12
8106 Teresa Randazzo
Matloob Piracha
Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153)
F24, O12, O15
8105 Michela Ponzo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582)
D89, L83, D81
8104 Gary Charness
Francesco Feri
Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez
Matthias Sutter
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are ...
(slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670)
C71, C91, D03, D85
8102 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a ...
(published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50)
D72, D78, J45
8101 Katja Görlitz
Sylvi Rzepka
Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?
Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (1), 281-296)
J24, R12
8100 Nils Saniter
Thomas Siedler
The Effects of Occupational Knowledge: Job Information Centers, Educational Choices, and Labor Market Outcomes
This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Knowledge and Educational Mobility: Evidence from the Introduction of Job Information Centers' (with D. Schnitzlein) in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69, 108-124)
I2, J24, J31
8098 John W. Budd
Aaron Sojourner
Jaewoo Jung
Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (4), 865 - 893)
J52, M12, M5
8097 Olivier Godart
Holger Görg
Aoife Hanley
Trust-Based Work-Time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data
We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we ...
(published in: Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70(4), 894-918)
M54, M12
8096 Michael Gibbs
Susanne Neckermann
Christoph Siemroth
A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(4), 577-590)
C93, J24, M52, O32
8095 Farzana Afridi
Vegard Iversen
Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh
In spite of widespread acclaims of social audits as low-cost and powerful participatory tools that can bolster awareness and improve public service delivery, a key policy question is what such audits ...
(published in: India Policy Forum, 2013-14, 10, 297-331)
H4, I3
8094 Arusha Cooray
Friedrich Schneider
Does Corruption Promote Emigration? An Empirical Examination
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), 293 - 310)
O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
8093 Junfu Zhang
Liang Zheng
Are Ghettos Good or Bad? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration
It is difficult to determine whether ghettos are good or bad, partly because racial segregation may have some effects that are unobservable. To overcome this challenge, we present a migration choice ...
(revised version published as 'Are People Willing to Pay for Less Segregation? Evidence from U.S. Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 97-112 )
O15, R12, R23
8092 Carmel U. Chiswick
Immigrants and Religion
Religious considerations affect the decision to immigrate as well as the choice of destination country, and religious behaviors change as immigrants adjust to the economic context of their new ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
Z12, J61, J11, J15
8091 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Lídia Farré
Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U: The Spanish Perspective
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
J15, J24, J61, J62
8090 Ingo E. Isphording
Sebastian Otten
Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants
There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.)
F22, J15, J24, J40
8089 Corrado Giulietti
Jackline Wahba
Yves Zenou
Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration
This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111 - 137)
O15, J61
8088 Gregory Verdugo
The Great Compression of the French Wage Structure, 1969-2008
Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was also characterised by a substantial increase in the educational attainment of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 131-144)
J31
8087 Ugo Colombino
Five Crossroads on the Way to Basic Income: An Italian Tour
The current Italian income support policies are defective with respect to both efficiency and equity. A more effective design must face five crucial choices: universal vs. categorical policies; ...
(revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2015, 1 (3), 353-389)
H31, H21, C25
8086 James Lake
Daniel L. Millimet
An Empirical Analysis of Trade-Related Redistribution and the Political Viability of Free Trade
Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2016, 99, 156-178)
F13, H50, J65
8085 Randolph Luca Bruno
Maria Cipollina
FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
This paper combines, explains and summarizes recent findings from the empirical literature focusing on the FDI's effect on firms' performances by collecting all the relevant firm level quantitative ...
(published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377)
C81, F23, O52
8084 Tymon Sloczynski
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
In this paper we study doubly robust estimators of various average treatment effects under unconfoundedness. We unify and extend much of the recent literature by providing a very general ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2018, 34(1), 112–133)
C13, C21, C31, C51
8079 Christian Dreger
Teymur Rahmani
The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This ...
(published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2016, 40 (1), 36 - 49)
F43, O53, Q30, C33
8077 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daiji Kawaguchi
Jungmin Lee
Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Are workers in modern economies working "too hard" – would they be better off if an equilibrium with fewer work hours were achieved? We examine changes in life satisfaction of Japanese and Koreans ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2017, 44, 1-12)
J22, J23, J28
8076 Jean-Olivier Hairault
François Langot
Thepthida Sopraseuth
Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is ...
( published as 'Unemployment fluctuations over the life cycle' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2019, 100 (C), 334-352.)
E32, J11, J23
8075 Robert Scholte
Gerard J. van den Berg
Maarten Lindeboom
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 26 (1), 86 - 103)
I12, C33, J14
8074 Andrew Dillon
Jed Friedman
Pieter Serneels
Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and ...
(published as 'Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 1077 - 1115)
I12, J22, J24, O12
8073 Osea Giuntella
Fabrizio Mazzonna
Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel with detailed local labor market characteristics for ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics ,2015, 43, 140–153)
F22, I10, J15, J61
8070 Laurens Cherchye
Thomas Demuynck
Bram De Rock
Frederic Vermeulen
Household Consumption When the Marriage Is Stable
We develop a novel framework to analyze the structural implications of the marriage market for household consumption patterns. We start by defining a revealed preference characterization of efficient ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (6), 1507 - 1534)
C14, D11, C78
8069 Ahmed Elsayed
Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (1), 58-82)
J24, J31
8066 Anna De Paoli
Mariapia Mendola
International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.)
F22, F1, J61
8064 Christina Gathmann
Nicolas Keller
Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms
Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141-3181)
J24, J31, J61, K37
8063 Cristina Mitaritonna
Gianluca Orefice
Giovanni Peri
Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 96, 62 - 82)
F22, E25, J61
8062 Jean-Louis Pan Ké Shon
Gregory Verdugo
Forty Years of Immigrant Segregation in France, 1968-2007: How Different Is the New Immigration?
Analysing restricted access census data, this paper examines the long-term trends of immigrant segregation in France from 1968 to 2007. Similar to other European countries, France experienced a rise ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2015, 52 (5), 823-840)
J61
8059 Sarojini Hirshleifer
David McKenzie
Rita K. Almeida
Cristobal Ridao-Cano
The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (579), 2115 - 1246 )
I28, J24, J68, O12, C93
8058 Vojtech Bartos
Michal Bauer
Julie Chytilová
Filip Matejka
Attention Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information Acquisition
We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (6), 1437-1475)
C93, D83, J15, J71
8056 Kyung-Gon Lee
Solomon Polachek
Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school ...
(published in: Education Economics 2018, 26(2), 129-144.)
I20, I21, I22
8055 Michael Kosfeld
Susanne Neckermann
Xiaolan Yang
Knowing that You Matter, Matters! The Interplay of Meaning, Monetary Incentives, and Worker Recognition
We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. ...
(published as 'The Effects of Financial and Recognition Incentives across Work contexts: The Rolel of Meaning' in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (1), 237 - 247)
C93, J33, M12, M52
8054 Ulla Lehmijoki
Tapio K. Palokangas
Land Reforms, Status and Population Growth
In this document, we consider the effects of a land reform on economic and demographic growth by a family-optimization model with sharecropping, endogenous fertility and status seeking. We show that ...
(revised version published as 'Landowning, Status and Population Growth' in: E. Moser et al. (eds.), Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2014, 315 - 328; extended and more advanced version published as 'Land Reforms and Population Growth' in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2016, 15, 1-15 (all versions co-authored with Ulla Lehmijoki))
O41, J13, N33
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