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8032 Maria Knoth Humlum
Nina Smith
Long-Term Effects of School Size on Students' Outcomes
We estimate the effect of school size on students' long-term outcomes such as high school completion, being out of the labor market, and earnings at the age of 30. We use rich register data on the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 28-43)
I21, I28, J24
8031 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Libertad González
Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. ...
(published as 'Recessions and Babies' Health' in: Economics & Human Biology, Volume 37, May 2020, 100836.)
E32, I10, J13
8030 Peng Nie
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(20), 2418–2428)
I12, J13, J22
8029 Petri Böckerman
Alex Bryson
Jutta Viinikainen
Christian Hakulinen
Laura Pulkki-Raback
Olli Raitakari
Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine
Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 259-274)
J24, J31, I12
8028 Sandra Nieto
Raul Ramos
Decomposition of Differences in PISA Results in Middle Income Countries
Our objective is to analyse the role of teacher and school quality to explain differences in students' educational outcomes. With this aim, we use PISA microdata for 10 middle income and 2 high ...
(published in: Prospects, 2015, 45(3), 325-343)
J24, I21, I25
8026 R?ta Ubarevi?ien?
Maarten van Ham
Donatas Burneika
Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001-2011
Shrinking populations have been gaining increasing attention, especially in post-socialist East and Central European countries. While most studies focus on the population decline of capital cities ...
(published in: Urban Studies Research, 2106, Article 5395379 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5395379))
J11, J61, P20, R23
8023 Tirthatanmoy Das
Solomon Polachek
Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program
We examine the effect of California Paid Family Leave (CPFL) on young women's (less than 42 years of age) labor force participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2015, 33 (4), 619-635. )
H43, J13, J18, J48
8021 Maria De Paola
Vincenzo Scoppa
Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 217–236)
D03, I21, D91, J01, J24
8020 Silvia Angerer
Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp Lergetporer
Matthias Sutter
Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74)
C91, D03, D63, D64
8019 Peter Fredriksson
Björn Öckert
Hessel Oosterbeek
Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background
Studies on the effect of class size on student achievement typically find that disadvantaged students benefit more from reduced class size than others. To better understand this differential impact, ...
(published as 'Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51(4), 832-868.)
I21, I28, J24, C31
8018 Tuomas Pekkarinen
Gender Differences in Strategic Behaviour under Competitive Pressure: Evidence on Omission Patterns in University Entrance Examinations
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 94-110)
J16, I21, I23
8017 Resul Cesur
Naci Mocan
Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as ...
(published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44)
I2, Z12, D72
8016 Sascha O. Becker
Markus Nagler
Ludger Woessmann
Education Promoted Secularization
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source ...
(published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311)
Z12, N33, I20
8015 Sylke V. Schnepf
Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?
Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a growing distinctive group in future labour markets. University dropout is ...
(revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96)
I21
8014 Francesca Cornaglia
Naomi E. Feldman
Andrew Leigh
Crime and Mental Wellbeing
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (1), 110-140)
I31, R28
8013 Jérôme Adda
Brendon McConnell
Imran Rasul
Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment
We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. Such a policy can: (i) impact the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(5), 1130-1202)
H75, J18, K42
8010 Gordon G. Liu
Ohyun Kwon
Xindong Xue
Belton M. Fleisher
How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a ...
(published as 'How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?-Evidence from China's Academician Election' in: Health Economics, 2017, 26, 292-304.)
I12
8009 Charles Courtemanche
Joshua C. Pinkston
Jay Stewart
Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data
We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not weigh and measure respondents. The standard correction from prior research ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 19, 275–293)
C18, I1
8008 Paula Nagler
Wim Naudé
Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the ...
(published as 'Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence' in: Food Policy, 2017, 67, 175-191)
Q12, O13, O55, M13, J43
8007 Olivier B. Bargain
Delphine Boutin
Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso
This paper explores the effects of remittance receipt on child labour in an African context. We focus on Burkina Faso, a country with a high prevalence of child labour and a high rate of migration. ...
(published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938)
F24, I25, J22
8005 James Albrecht
Aico van Vuuren
Susan Vroman
Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited
Derek Neal (JPE 2004) used the NLSY79 to show that the observed median log wage gap between young white and young black women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 66-71)
J15, J16, J31, J71
8004 Ilhom Abdulloev
Gil S. Epstein
Ira N. Gang
Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation
Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods ...
(published in: Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot & Jessie Bakens (eds) Economics on Cultural Diversity, 2015, Edward Elgar Pub: Cheltenham, UK, 52-77)
J15
8003 Ilham Haouas
Almas Heshmati
Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but ...
(published in: International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2017, 144, 7-23)
C22, E20, L16, L71, O11, O53
8001 Jo Ritzen
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Caroline Wehner
Euroskepticism in the Crisis: More Mood than Economy
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes ...
(completely revised version published as 'Euroskepticism, Income Inequality and Financial Expectations' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 16 (2), 539-576)
D31, J31, O43, O52, P48, Z18
8000 James J. Heckman
Stefano Mosso
The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life ...
(published in: Annual Reviews of Economics, 2014, 6(1), 689-733)
J13, I20, I24, I28
7999 Gerard J. van den Berg
Pia Pinger
A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 103-120)
I12, J11
7998 Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 141-161)
D13, D61, D64
7997 Sonia Oreffice
Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples
This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2014, 35(2), 162-184)
D1, J15, J22
7996 Susan L. Averett
Yang Wang
Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence by Men Using a Natural Experiment
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is widespread among women, with substantial and long-lasting negative consequences. Researchers have documented a strong positive correlation between alcohol abuse and ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 82 (3), 697 - 724)
I12, I18, J12
7995 Victor Naroditskiy
Sebastian Stein
Mirco Tonin
Long Tran-Thanh
Michael Vlassopoulos
Nicholas R. Jennings
Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to ...
(published in: Proceedings of the Second AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014, 171-183)
C93, D64, L31, M31
7992 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?
A number of states have adopted laws that require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify program to check workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the ...
(published as 'The Impact of E-Verify Mandates on Labor Market Outcomes' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81, 947-959)
J15, J31, J61
7991 Markus Poschke
The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018, 10 (3), 1-41)
E24, J24, L11, L26, O30
7990 Yu Aoki
Donating Time to Charity: Not Working for Nothing
This paper explores the causal effect of volunteer work providing daily assistance to the elderly on elderly mortality. To identify the causal effect, I exploit the earthquake that occurred in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (1), 97 - 117)
I10, J14
7989 Shahrouz Abolhosseini
Almas Heshmati
Jörn Altmann
The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships ...
(published as 'Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, pp. 119-146)
D62, H23, N50, O13, O14
7986 Tim A. Bruckner
Gerard J. van den Berg
Kirk R. Smith
Ralph A. Catalano
Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002
For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 119 2014, 191–197)
I12, Q54
7985 Timothy J. Hatton
The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe
Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper ...
(published in: P. Bevelander and B. Petersson (eds.), Crisis and Migration: Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics, and policies of migration, Nordic Academic Press 2014, Lund, Sweden, Chapter 2, 25-47)
F22, F52, J15
7984 Catia Batista
Janis Umblijs
Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.)
D81, F22, F24, J01, J08, J15, J61
7983 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan Pozo
When Do Remittances Facilitate Asset Accumulation? The Importance of Remittance Income Uncertainty
A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, ...
(published as 'Remittance income uncertainty and asset accumulation' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:3)
F22, J20
7982 Alicia Adsera
Ana Ferrer
Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It discusses some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
J11, J12, J13, J15
7981 Margherita Comola
Mariapia Mendola
The Formation of Migrant Networks
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117(2), 592-618)
J15, D85, C45
7980 Toman Omar Mahmoud
Hillel Rapoport
Andreas Steinmayr
Christoph Trebesch
The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69)
F22, D72, O1
7979 Paul Marx
Gijs Schumacher
The Effect of Economic Change and Elite Framing on Economic Preferences: A Survey Experiment
An unresolved question in political science is how economic downturns affect citizens' economic left-right preferences. Existing observational studies fail to isolate the effect of economic ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2016, 26 (1), 20-31.)
D72, Z18
7978 Jürgen Huber
Michael Kirchler
Daniel Kleinlercher
Matthias Sutter
Market vs. Residence Principle: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of a Financial Transaction Tax
While politically attractive in order to generate tax revenues, the effects of a financial transaction tax (FTT) are scientifically disputed, not the least because seemingly small details of its ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, F610-631)
C91, G10, E62
7977 Sebastian Königs
The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'
In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 39, 107-150)
I38, J60, J64, C23
7976 Luca Nunziata
Lorenzo Rocco
A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data
Does Protestantism favour the market economy more than Catholicism does? We provide a novel quasi-experimental way to answer this question by comparing Protestant and Catholic minorities using Swiss ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 189-224)
Z12, J24, J21, Z13
7974 Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Brian Stacy
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation
We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015, 8 (1), 35-59.)
C01, I20, J45, J01
7973 Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Brian Stacy
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance
School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision ...
(published in: Statistics and Public Policy, 2015, 2(1), e1034820)
I20, J08, J24, J45
7972 Markus Frölich
Martin Huber
Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition
This paper develops a nonparametric methodology for treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under treatment endogeneity and missing outcomes. We use instrumental variables, pre-treatment ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711)
C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
7971 Patrick Arni
Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (6), 1-20 )
C81, H43, J68
7970 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of ...
(published in: China Quarterly, 2014, 220 (220), 968-987)
D31, J15, R23
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