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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
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
15970 Vincenzo Bove
Jessica Di Salvatore
Roberto Nistico
Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighbourhood
We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2024, 66 (4), 671 - 697)
F13, F14, F51, F52, K42
15968 Judite Goncalves
Roxanne Merenda
Joăo Pereira dos Santos
Not So Sweet: Impacts of a Soda Tax on Producers
Portugal introduced a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax in 2017. This study uses unique administrative accounting data for all SSB producers/importers in Portugal, and an event study design with ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2024, 31, 1388–1412 )
H25, H51, I18
15967 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Long COVID in the United States
Although yet to be clearly identified as a clinical condition, there is immense concern at the health and wellbeing consequences of long COVID. Using data collected from nearly half a million ...
(published in: Plos One, 2023, 18 (11), e0292672 )
I1, I31
15966 Nicolas Büttner
Michael Grimm
Isabel Günther
Kenneth Harttgen
Stephan Klasen
The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Structural Change
Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic ...
(published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (5), 1585–1611.)
D13, J11, J13, J22, O12
15963 Achim Ahrens
Christian B. Hansen
Mark E Schaffer
Thomas Wiemann
ddml: Double/Debiased Machine Learning in Stata
We introduce the package ddml for Double/Debiased Machine Learning (DDML) in Stata. Estimators of causal parameters for five different econometric models are supported, allowing for flexible ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (1), 3-45. )
C14, C21, C87
15962 Sabien Dobbelaere
Catherine Fuss
Mark Vancauteren
Does Offshoring Shape Labor Market Imperfections? A Comparative Analysis of Belgian and Dutch Firms
We study the relationship between offshoring and the prevalence and intensity of labor market imperfections at the firm level in Belgium and the Netherlands. Wage-markup pricing stemming from ...
(substantially revised version forthcoming as 'Offshoring and labor market power: Comparing Belgian and Dutch firms' in: Industrial Relations)
F14, F16, J42, J50
15961 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Health System Trust and Compliance with COVID-19 Restrictions
We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with ...
(published ' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101235)
I13, Z1
15960 Giuseppe Attanasi
Claire Rimbaud
Marie Claire Villeval
Guilt Aversion in (New) Games: Does Partners' Payoff Vulnerability Matter?
We investigate whether a player's guilt aversion is modulated by the co-players' vulnerability. To this goal, we introduce new variations of a three-player Trust game in which we manipulate payoff ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 690-717 )
C72, C91, D91
15958 Fabienne Helfer
Volker Grossmann
Aderonke Osikominu
How Does Immigration Affect Housing Costs in Switzerland?
This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland, exploiting regional variation at the level of 106 local labour markets ("Mobilité ...
(published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statisticsm 2023, 159, 5)
F22, O18, R31
15957 Damiano Pregaldini
Uschi Backes-Gellner
How Middle-Skilled Workers Adjust to Immigration: The Role of Occupational Skill Specificity
Our study explores the effects of immigration on the employment of native middle-skilled workers, focusing on how this effect varies with the specificity of their occupational skill bundles. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45 (8), 1607–16254)
J15, J24, J62
15956 Christian Grund
Dirk Sliwka
Krystina Titz
Works Councils as Gatekeepers: Codetermination, Monitoring Practices, and Job Satisfaction
This paper analyzes the role of works councils as gatekeepers safeguarding employee's interests in the adoption of monitoring practices. We first introduce a formal model predicting that (i) the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102563)
M5, J83, J28
15953 Artjoms Ivlevs
Ian Smith
Do International Tourist Arrivals Change Residents' Attitudes Towards Immigration? A Longitudinal Study of 28 European Countries
Can international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data ...
(published in: Tourism Economics, 2024, 30 (1), 104-131)
J61, L83
15952 Elise Aerts
Ive Marx
Gerlinde Verbist
Not That Basic: How Level, Design and Context Matter for the Redistributive Outcomes of Universal Basic Income
Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many other benefits, including greatly reduced administrative complexity and cost. ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2025, 54 (2), 351-373)
D31, H55, I38, C81
15951 Brigham Walker
Janna Wisniewski
Sarah Tinkler
Miron Stano
Rajiv Sharma
Foreign Physicians: Discriminatory Patient Preferences and Doctor Availability
Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 228, 106813)
I11, C93, J7
15948 Farzana Afridi
Abhishek Arora
Diva Dhar
Kanika Mahajan
Women's Work, Social Norms and the Marriage Market
While it is well-acknowledged that the gendered division of labor within marriage adversely affects women's allocation of time to market work, there is less evidence on how extant social norms can ...
(forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025)
J12, J16, J24
15947 Sandro Provenzano
Sefi Roth
Lutz Sager
Air Pollution and Respiratory Infectious Diseases
Recent research suggests that short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with an elevated prevalence of respiratory infectious disease. We examine the relationship between the air quality ...
(published in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024, 87, 1127–1139 )
I18, Q51, Q53
15946 Wim Naudé
Ernesto Amorós
Tilman Brück
State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence
This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the existing literature, we formulate two hypotheses: (1) state-based conflict has a ...
(published in: W. Naudé and B. Power, Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar, 2024, 106–140 )
L26, M13, J23, N40, O11, O17
15945 Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
Anders Stenberg
Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors
This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors is determined based on GPA. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (3), 133–173)
I21, J24
15943 Le Wen
Sholeh A. Maani
Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch: A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education
In this paper we systematically evaluate the impact of using the alternative methods conventionally used in the international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (2), 169–194.)
J24, J31
15941 Piet Daas
Wolter Hassink
Bart Klijs
On the Validity of Using Webpage Texts to Identify the Target Population of a Survey: An Application to Detect Online Platforms
A statistical classification model was developed to identify online platform organizations based on the texts on their website. The model was subsequently used to identify all (potential) platform ...
(published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2024, 40 (1), 190-211)
C81, C83, D20, D83, L20
15940 Nicolas Pazos
Marta Favara
Alan Sanchez
Douglas Scott
Jere R. Behrman
Long-Term Effects of Rainfall Shocks on Foundational Cognitive Skills: Evidence from Peru
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, harming communities strongly tied to agricultural production, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2024, 54, 101407)
J24, Q54, I24, I14
15939 Matthias Rodemeier
Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation: Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets
What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of environmental protection? I study this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery ...
(This version: March 2024.)
D61, D82, H21, Q51, Q58
15938 Santosh Kumar Gautam
Bernard Nahlen
Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India
Using nationally representative data, we estimate intergenerational persistence in health in India. Results from the instrumental variable method show that children of anemic mothers are more likely ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2023, 224, ^p111023)
I10, I14, O15
15936 Giorgio Brunello
Désirée Rückert
Christoph T. Weiss
Patricia Wruuck
Advanced Digital Technologies and Investment in Employee Training: Complements or Substitutes?
Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, we show that employers tend to reduce investment in training per employee after adopting advanced digital technologies (ADT). We ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital, 2025)
D24, J24
15935 Lisa Bellmann
Lutz Bellmann
Olaf Hübler
Labour Mobility in German Establishments during the COVID-19 Crisis: Panel Data Analyses with Special Reference to Short-Time Work and Working from Home
Using 21 waves of German high-frequency establishment panel data collected during the COVID-19 crisis, we investigate the effects of short-time work (STW) and working from home (WFH) on hiring, ...
(revised version published as 'Labour mobility, short-time work and working from home: establishments' behaviour during the COVID-19 crisis' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45(6), 1262-1278)
C23, J21, J23, J58, J63
15934 Zhuoer Lin
Mingqi Fu
Xi Chen
Cognitive Misperception and Chronic Disease Awareness: Evidence from Blood Biomarker Data
Cognitive misperception contributed to poor decision-making; yet their impact on health-related decisions is less known. We examined how self-perceived memory was associated with chronic disease ...
(published as 'Self-perceived memory is negatively associated with chronic disease awareness: Evidence from blood biomarker data' in: SSM - Population Health, 2023, 22, 101361)
I12, J14, D91, I18
15933 Ali Fakih
Malak El Baba
The Decision to Emigrate in Six MENA Countries: The Role of Post-Revolutionary Stress
This paper studies the determinants of emigration from six Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in light of the Arab Spring of 2011. The aim is to determine if the economically depressing ...
(published in: International Migration, 2023, 61 (4), 201-220)
C25, J60, O15
15932 Maciej Albinowski
Iga Magda
Agata Rozszczypała
The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe
We investigate the role of education in creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities across the European Union. We use the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions ...
(published online in: Education Economics, 29 September 2023)
I26, I14, C21
15930 Hannah Illing
Crossing Borders: Labor Market Effects of European Integration
This paper investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access to the German labor market. Exploiting the fact that the reform specifically impacted the Czech and German border ...
(This is an updated version of IZA DP 15930, first published in February 2023. The new version includes an update of the matching algorithm and additional robustness checks.)
J61, J15, R23
15929 Fortuna Casoria
Fabio Galeotti
Marie Claire Villeval
Trust and Social Preferences in Times of Acute Health Crisis
We combined a natural experiment (the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020) with the tools of laboratory experiments to study whether and how an unprecedented shock on social interactions (the ...
(revised version published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 154, 5-50 )
C92, K1, I18
15928 Pilar Garcia-Gomez
Pierre Koning
Owen O'Donnell
Carlos Riumallo Herl
Selective Exercise of Discretion in Disability Insurance Awards
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2025, 44 (3), 816-835)
D73, H42, H55
15927 Nick Drydakis
Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Academic Performance
During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (7), 1362-1381.)
E24, J6, I24, J13
15925 Dilek Sevim
Victoria Baranov
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Joanna Maselko
Pietro Biroli
Socioemotional Skills in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Maternal Psychosocial Intervention
We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (S), S365-S401)
D1, I1, J1, O2
15924 Wim Naudé
Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence: The Final Existential Risk?
The possibility that artificial extraterrestrial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity is neglected. It is also the case in economics, where both AI existential risks and the potential ...
(published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)
O40, O33, D01, D64
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