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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16047 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
Ömer Özak
(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 243, 111921)
D74, N57, O13, O17, O43, P48, Q15, Q34
16046 Andrea Fazio
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Francesco Scervini
Social Media Charity Campaigns and Pro-social Behaviour. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge
Social media use plays an important role in shaping individuals' social attitudes and economic behaviours. One of the first well-known examples of social media campaigns is the Ice Bucket Challenge ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2023, 96, 102624)
D64, O35
16045 Iga Magda
Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska
Marta Palczyńska
What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework
Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2024, 45, 1–20)
D10, D13, D31, J12, J16, J22
16044 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Torun Österberg
In and Out of Privileged and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Sweden – On the Importance of Country of Birth
Moves into and out of privileged neighborhoods as well as moves into and out of disadvantaged neighborhoods in metropolitan Sweden are studied using register data on all moves by adults that took ...
(published in: Population, Space and Place, 2023, 29 (4) e2657)
J15, J61, R23
16042 Christian Grund
Alexandra Soboll
Monetary Rewards, Hierarchy Level and Working Hours as Drivers of Employees' Self-Evaluations
In this study, we explore the relation between job characteristics and employees' self-evaluations of performance in comparison to their colleagues' performance. Making use of unique individual panel ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2025, 19, 729–756)
J3, M5
16041 Piotr Lewandowski
Katarzyna Lipowska
Mateusz Smoter
Mismatch in Preferences for Working from Home – Evidence from Discrete Choice Experiments with Workers and Employers
We study workers' and employers' preferences for remote work, estimating the willingness to pay for working from home (WFH) using discrete choice experiments with more than 10,000 workers and more ...
(published online in: ILR Review, 03 August 2025)
J21, J31, J81
16040 Sebastian Till Braun
Jan Stuhler
Exposure to War and Its Labor Market Consequences over the Life Cycle
With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic History, 2026)
J24, J26, N34
16039 Hamed Markazi Moghadam
Patrick A. Puhani
Joanna Tyrowicz
Pension Reforms and Couples' Labour Supply Decisions
To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102627)
J22, J26
16036 Panka Bencsik
Lester Lusher
Rebecca L.C. Taylor
Slow Traffic, Fast Food: The Effects of Time Lost on Food Store Choice
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2025, 146, 103737)
I12, I30, J22, R41
16035 Adrian Chadi
Laszlo Goerke
Seeking Shelter in Times of Crisis? Unemployment, Perceived Job Insecurity and Trade Union Membership
Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (359), 1041-1088)
D84, J51, J63
16034 Alexander M. Danzer
Natalia Danzer
Carsten Feuerbaum
Military Spending and Innovation: Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2024, 33 (4), 831–854, )
H56, O31, O14, N43
16031 Paul Redmond
Seamus McGuinness
The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked: Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector
A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies ...
(published in Economica, 2025, 92, (365), 84-106)
E24, J22, J23, J31, J42
16030 Sveva Vitellozzi
Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Thriving in the Rain: Natural Shocks, Time Allocation, and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh
In low- and middle-income countries, differences between men and women in their time use patterns represent a major source of gender inequality. Among other factors, natural shocks can contribute to ...
(published in: World Development, 2024, 181, 106684)
J16, J22, J43
16029 Giam Pietro Cipriani
Tamara Fioroni
Human Capital and Pensions with Endogenous Fertility and Retirement
We study an OLG model with child policies and a PAYG pension with endogenous retirement and fertility. The result of the planned economy is compared to the decentralized competitive equilibrium ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics. 2024, 28 (2), 478-494. )
J13, H2, H8, H55
16028 Thomas Dohmen
Elena Shvartsman
Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision
Working time autonomy is often accompanied by output-based incentives to counterbalance the loss of monitoring that comes with granting autonomy. However, in such settings, overprovision of effort ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 212, 255-1266)
C91, D90, I10, J81
16027 Thomas Dohmen
Tomáš Jagelka
Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits
Measures based on self-assessments, which are increasingly important in empirical economic research, are plagued by measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 23, 399–462)
D90, C81, C83
16026 Felipe Valencia Caicedo
Thomas Dohmen
Andreas Pondorfer
Religion and Cooperation across the Globe
Social science research has stressed the important role of religion in sustaining cooperation among non-kin. We contribute to this literature with a large-scale empirical study documenting the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 215, 479–489. )
D90, P35, Z12
16025 Thomas Dohmen
Ingrid M.T. Rohde
Tom Stolp
Tournament Incentives Affect Perceived Stress and Hormonal Stress Responses
We conduct a laboratory experiment among male participants to investigate whether rewarding schemes that depend on work performance – in particular, tournament incentives – induce more stress than ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2023, 26 (4), 955–985. )
D23, D87, D91, M52
16024 Mark Bils
Marianna Kudlyak
Paulo Lins
The Quality-Adjusted Cyclical Price of Labor
Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 42 (S1), S13–S59)
E24, E32, J30, J41, J63, J64
16023 Stéphane Carcillo
Alexander Hijzen
Stefan Thewissen
The Limitations of Overtime Limits to Reduce Long Working Hours: Evidence from the 2018-2021 Working Time Reform in Korea
This paper provides a first assessment of the causal impact of the 2018-2021 reform in Korea meant to combat its long working-hour culture. The reform consists of lowering the statutory limit on ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (1), 98-126)
J16, J22, K31
16022 Leora Friedberg
Elliott Isaac
Marriage in Old Age: What Can We Learn about Policy Impacts on Same-Sex Couples?
Recipiency of tax or transfer benefits in the United States often depends on marital status, creating complicated incentives that reward marriage for some and penalize it for others. Same-sex ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 679-706)
J12, H55, I13, J16
16021 Tito Boeri
Andrea Garnero
Lorenzo Giovanni Luisetto
Non-compete Agreements in a Rigid Labour Market: The Case of Italy
Non-compete clauses (NCCs) limiting the mobility of workers have been found to be rather widespread in the US, a flexible labour market with large turnover rates and a limited coverage of collective ...
(published online in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 24 April 2024)
J31, J41, J42, L40
16019 Inga Laß
Esperanza Vera-Toscano
Mark Wooden
Working from Home, COVID-19 and Job Satisfaction
This paper examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as ...
(published in: IRL Review, 2024. 78 (2), 330-354)
J22, J28
16016 Pedro Luís Silva
Stephen L. DesJardins
Ricardo Biscaia
Carla Sá
Pedro N. Teixeira
Public and Private School Grade Inflations Patterns in Secondary Education
Grade inflation in high schools is potentially problematic for students, education institutions, and society. We examine the extent of potential grading inflation in courses taken during high school ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economics Analysis & Policy, 2025, 25 (2), 305-342)
I21, I23, I24
16015 Mario Bossler
Alexander Moog
Thorsten Schank
Labor Demand Responses to Changing Gas Prices
In course of the current energy crisis, the consequences of increasing gas prices are heavily discussed. To date, however, there is no evidence of the impact of gas prices on the labor market. Using ...
(published in: BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2023, 23 (4), 1073–1080)
J23, Q31
16012 Pablo Agnese
Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio
Luis A. Gil-Alana
Fernando Perez de Gracia
Precious Metal Prices: A Tale of Four U.S. Recessions
This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and ...
(published in: Studies in Economics and Finance, 2024, 41 (5), 1012-1022)
G10, G11, G15, F10
16011 Francesco Amodio
Leonardo Baccini
Giorgio Chiovelli
Michele Di Maio
Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South: Evidence from PTAs
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2024, 39 (118), 275–322)
D22, D24, F51, N45, O12
16007 Simon Commander
Saul Estrin
Thamashi De Silva
Political Connections, Business Groups and Innovation
It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional arrangements very different from the West, notably the central role of business groups ...
(published in: Comperative Economic Studies, 2024, 66, 639–660 )
L22, O30, O53
16005 Petri Böckerman
Mika Kortelainen
Henri Salokangas
Maria Vaalavuo
Family Affair? Long-Term Economic and Mental Effects of Spousal Cancer
Emerging strands of research have examined the family spillover effects of health shocks, usually focusing on labour market outcomes. However, the results have been inconclusive and there is only ...
(published as 'A Family Affair? Long-term Economic and Mental Effects of Spousal Cancer' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, article 19)
I10, J12, J17, J22
16004 Shanquan Chen
Huanyu Zhang
Benjamin R. Underwood
Dan Wang
Xi Chen
Rudolf N. Cardinal
Trends in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Physical Disability and Social Support among U.S. Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Living Alone, 2000–2018
Informal care is a primary source of support for older adults with cognitive impairment but is less available to those who live alone. We leverage the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey 2000-2018 to ...
(published in: Innovation in Aging, 2023, 7 (4), igad028)
I10, J11, J14, J15, J16
16003 Seulgi Lim
Soohyung Lee
Sejong's Effects on People's Health: Consequences of a Long Commute
We examine the health impacts of long commute time by exploiting a large-scale placed-based policy in South Korea. The policy relocated public employers in the capital area to disadvantaged cities. ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2023, 22 (2), 1-27)
I10, J18, H51, R11
16000 Wim Naudé
Artificial Intelligence and the Economics of Decision-Making
Artificial Intelligence (AI) scientists are challenged to create intelligent, autonomous agents that can make rational decisions. In this challenge, they confront two questions: what decision theory ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
D01, C60, C45, O33
15999 Pablo Agnese
Francisco Rios
Spillover Effects of Energy Transition Metals in Chile
This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2024, 134, 107589)
F62, G15, L61
15998 Eve Caroli
Catherine Pollak
Muriel Roger
The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game
Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We ...
(published in: Economie et Statistique/Economics and Statistics, 2023, 538, 49-67)
I10, J14, J18, J26
15997 Daron Acemoglu
Hans R.A. Koster
Ceren Ozgen
Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands
We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics)
D63, E22, E23, E24, J24, O33
15995 Marco Guerzoni
Luigi Riso
Marco Vivarelli
Was Robert Gibrat Right? A Test Based on the Graphical Model Methodology
Using both regression analysis and an unsupervised graphical model approach (never applied before to this issue), we confirm the rejection of the Gibrat's law when our firm-level data are considered ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 475–488)
L11
15991 Noam Angrist
Kevin Winseck
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Joshua Graff Zivin
Human Capital and Climate Change
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, March 2024)
D72, H41, I20, I28, P16, Q01, Q5
15989 Tito Boeri
Matteo Gamalerio
Massimo Morelli
Margherita Negri
Pay-As-They-Get-In: Attitudes Towards Migrants and Pension Systems
We study whether a better knowledge of the functioning of pay-as-you-go pension systems and recent demographic trends in the hosting country affects natives' attitudes towards immigration. In two ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, 24 (1), 63–78)
C90, D83, H55, J15, F22
15988 Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen
Amanda Gaulke
Niels Skipper
Jannet Svensson
Peter Rřnř Thingholm
Educational Consequences of a Sibling's Disability: Evidence from Type 1 Diabetes
While there is a growing literature on family health spillovers, questions remain about how sibling disability status impacts educational outcomes. As disability is not randomly assigned this is an ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102407)
I1, I2, J1
15987 Stefanie Fischer
Heather Royer
Corey White
Health Care Centralization: The Health Impacts of Obstetric Unit Closures in the US
Over the last few decades, health care services in the United States have become more geographically centralized. We study how the loss of hospital-based obstetric units in over 400 counties affect ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 113–141)
J13, I18, J08, J18, I38
15986 Steffen Künn
Juan Palacios
Health Implications of Building Retrofits: Evidence from a Population-Wide Weatherization Program
What is the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health? Although economists and policymakers are certain about the health implications of housing upgrades, empirical evidence is largely missing or ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 98, 102936)
H54, I18, R21, R23, R38
15984 Brad J. Hershbein
Bryan Andrew Stuart
The Evolution of Local Labor Markets after Recessions
This paper studies how U.S. local labor markets respond to employment losses that occur during recessions. Following recessions from 1973 through 2009, we find that areas that lose more jobs during ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 399–435)
J21, J61, R23
15983 Thushyanthan Baskaran
Zohal Hessami
Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 24 July 2023)
D72, D78, H70, J13, J16
15982 Agustín Indaco
Francesc Ortega
Adapting to Climate Risk? Local Population Dynamics in the United States
Using a new composite climate-risk index, we show that population in high-risk counties has grown disproportionately over the last few decades, even relative to the corresponding commuting zone. We ...
(published in: Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2024, 8, 61–106 )
J3, J7
15981 Ziheng Liu
Xi Chen
Qinan Lu
Blowin' in the Wind of an Invisible Killer: Long-Term Exposure to Ozone and Respiratory Mortality in the United States
In light of the low public awareness of ozone pollution and the potential health threats posed by long-term ozone exposure, this study estimates the causal effect of long-term ozone exposure on ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 53 (2025))
I15, J14, Q51, Q53
15979 Cavit Baran
Eric Chyn
Bryan Andrew Stuart
The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 354–e98)
N32, J15, J24, H75
15976 Timo Verlaat
Federico Todeschini
Xavier Ramos
The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support
While unconditional cash transfers have been studied extensively in developing countries, little is known about their effects in a wealthier context. Through a randomized controlled trial, we study ...
(published as 'The employment effects of a means-tested guaranteed income policy' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 248, 105420)
C93, H53, I38, J64
15975 Natalia Danzer
Sebastian Garcia-Torres
Max F. Steinhardt
Luca Stella
Women in Political Power and School Closure during COVID Times
This study explores the relationship between women's representation in political power and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a cross-country dataset in Europe, we document a ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2024, 39 (120), 765–810)
H52, I18, I20, J13, J16
15973 Francesca Foliano
Alex Bryson
Heather Joshi
Bożena Wielgoszewska
David Wilkinson
Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults: A Comparison across British Cohorts
We study the evolution of the gender wage gap among young adults in Britain between 1972 and 2015 using data from four British cohorts born in 1946, 1958, 1970 and 1989/90 on early life factors, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102614)
J16, J2, J3
15972 Xin Zhang
Xi Chen
Xiaobo Zhang
Temperature and Low-Stakes Cognitive Performance
This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, 11 (1), 75–96)
I24, Q54, Q51, D91, J14, J16
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