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17726 Rita Ginja
Julie Riise
Barton Willage
Alexander Willén
Does Your Doctor Matter?
We estimate doctor value-added (VA) combining population-wide patient-doctor register data with exogenous variation in the assignment of patients to GPs. We find substantial variation in the quality ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics)
None
17718 David Butler
Robert Butler
Carl Singleton
Objective Calls Under the Spotlight: Referee Consistency and Behaviour on Football's Biggest Stage
We study the objectivity of officiating under extreme pressure by analysing additional time played at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and 2024 UEFA European Championship. Controlling for within-match events, ...
(published online in: Journal of Sports Economics, 27 November 2025)
D01, D91, L83, Z20
17716 Oded Stark
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function
Following Sen's (1973) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income-based stress ("depression" in Sen's terminology) and aggregate income, we transform ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2025, 78 (2), 301-304)
C43, D01, D31, D63, H53, I31, I38, P46
17709 Uwe Jirjahn
Political Spillovers of Worker Representation: With or Without Workplace Democracy?
A series of studies show that unions and works councils have an influence on workers' political activities and attitudes. However, at issue are the transmission channels through which worker ...
(revised version published in: Analyse und Kritik - Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 2025, 47 (1), 5-30)
D70, J51, J53, K31, O35
17692 Guillermo Cruces
Dario Tortarolo
Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare
Design of Partial Population Experiments with an Application to Spillovers in Tax Compliance
This paper develops a framework to analyze partial population experiments, a generalization of the cluster experimental design where clusters are assigned to different treatment intensities. The ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 28 January 2025)
C01, C93, H71 , H26 , H21 , O23
17691 Jörg Ankel-Peters
Abel Brodeur
Anna Dreber Almenberg
Magnus Johannesson
Florian Neubauer
Julian Rose
A Protocol for Structured Robustness Reproductions and Replicability Assessments
Robustness reproductions and replicability discussions are on the rise in response to concerns about a potential credibility crisis in economics. This paper proposes a protocol to structure ...
(published in: Q Open, 2025, 5 (3), qoaf004)
A11, C18
17687 Anna Adamecz
Radina Ilieva
Nikki Shure
Revisiting the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Composite Measures and Heterogeneity by Gender
The Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE) states that people with lower levels of the ability tend to self-assess their ability less accurately than people with relatively higher levels of the ability. Thus, ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2025, 116, 102362)
J16, J24, D90
17672 Francisco Campos
Michael Frese
Leonardo Iacovone
Hillary C. Johnson
David McKenzie
Mona Mensmann
Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success
A randomized experiment in Togo found that personal initiative training for small businesses resulted in large and significant impacts for both men and women after two years. We revisit these ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Insights )
O12, O17, L26, J24, J16, D22
17670 Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Rigid Yet Resilient: Firms' Margins of Adjustment to Demand Shocks in Regulated Labour Markets
We investigate how firms adjust to demand shocks when wages and employment determination are regulated. Using firm-level data for the Italian metal engineering industry from 2009 to 2021, we estimate ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 94, 102706)
J30, J58, C81
17669 Santiago Budría
Eduardo Fermé
Diogo Nuno Freitas
Toward Proactive Policy Design: Identifying 'To-Be' Energy-Poor Households Using Shap for Early Intervention
Identifying at-risk populations is essential for designing effective energy poverty interventions. Using data from the HILDA Survey, a longitudinal dataset representative of the Australian ...
(published in: Energy Strategy Reviews, 2025, 62, 101998)
I32, D12, C53
17656 Beyza Ural Marchand
Employment Adjustments to Increased Imports: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper examines the impact of imports from developed countries on industry-specific employment in India between 1983 and 2010. The identification strategy relies on comparing differential changes ...
(published online in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 15 March 2025)
F16, J21, J23, O33
17642 Tianli Yang
Zhong Zhao
Public Long-Term Care Insurance and Retirement Intentions of Urban Workers: Evidence from China
The Chinese government announced the pilot of public long-term care insurance (LTCI) policy in 2016. While most studies focus on LTCI's effects on labor supply and retirement behavior, its effect on ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34 (9), 1537-1559)
H55, I28, J14, J26
17639 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Dirk Mateer
Does Learning Economics Make You Less Susceptible to the Sunk Cost Fallacy?
The sunk cost fallacy is typically covered in introductory economics courses. It is among the most important biases that influence decision making. Ronayne et al. (2021a,b) find evidence of behavior ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 2025)
A20, A22, I21
17637 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Dirk Mateer
Using Engaging Activities to Enhance Student Mental Wellness in Introductory Economics Classes
Many college students experience symptoms of mental health challenges, with depression and anxiety being among the most common. These problems negatively affect academic performance (Brännlund et al. ...
(forthcoming in: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2025)
A20, A21
17636 Eric Chyn
Brigham R. Frandsen
Emily Leslie
Examiner and Judge Designs in Economics: A Practitioner's Guide
This article provides empirical researchers with an introduction and guide to research designs based on variation in judge and examiner tendencies to administer treatments or other interventions. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2025, 63 (2), 401–439)
C21, C26, C31, K14, C54
17619 Eliav Danziger
Leif Danziger
Demand Uncertainty and the Optimal Number of Export Destinations
We study how demand uncertainty affects risk-neutral firms' number of export destinations when uncertainty is resolved after firms choose their export destinations and output. We show that firms' ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2025, 33 (2), 369-379)
F12, F61
17615 Claus Schnabel
Unions and Employers' Associations in Germany: A Survey of Their Membership, Density and Bargaining Coverage
Trade unions and employers' associations play an important role in Germany not only in wage setting, but also in social policy and labour market regulation. While the majority of companies are ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2025, 59, 7(2025))
J51, J52, J53, J58
17611 Feliciano Chimbutane
Naureen Karachiwalla
Catalina Herrera-Almanza
Jessica Leight
Carlos Lauchande
The Effect of Teacher Training and Community Literacy Programming on Teacher and Student Outcome
Motivated by extremely low levels of basic reading skills in sub-Saharan Africa, we experimentally evaluate two interventions designed to enhance students' early-grade literacy performance in rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2026, 178, 103578)
I25, J24, 012, 015
17610 Bernard M. S. van Praag
J. Peter Hop
William H. Greene
Estimation of Linear Models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach
In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics ...
(published online in: Psychometrika, 10 March 2025)
C13, C15, C24, C25, C26, C33, C34, C35, C361
17607 Konstantinos Pouliakas
Giulia Santangelo
Are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Skills a Reward or a Gamble? Deconstructing the AI Wage Premium in Europe
Understanding the labour market impact of new, autonomous digital technologies, particularly generative or other forms of artificial intelligence (AI), is currently at the top of the research and ...
(published online in: Eurasian Business Review, 11 March 2025)
J24, J31, J71, M52
17605 Johanna Muffert
Regina T. Riphahn
Long-Run Career Outcomes of Multiple Job Holding
Multiple job holding (MJH) is increasingly frequent in industrialized countries. Individuals holding a secondary job add to their experience, skills, and networks. We study the long-run labor market ...
(forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review)
J22, J24, C21, M53
17600 Thomas Le Barbanchon
Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow
This paper tests whether partially unemployed workers value future preserved benefits when they bunch at the kink of the unemployment insurance benefit-withdrawal schedule. I extend the bunching ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics )
J65, H24, H31
17598 Paul Redmond
Seamus McGuinness
Elish Kelly
Labour Market Dynamics of Minimum Wage Workers
Ireland is the only country in Europe with a direct question in its Labour Force Survey to identify minimum wage employees. By combining this with the longitudinal component of the Labour Force ...
(published online in: Applied Economics, 4 March 2025)
J31, J62, J20
17597 Uwe Jirjahn
Unions and Collective Bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Insights from Quantitative Studies
This article reviews quantitative research on unions and collective bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the consequences of unions for wages, inequality, economic performance and ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Industrielle Beziehungen - German Journal of Industrial Relations)
J51, J52, F66, O10, O55
17590 Vytautas Kuokštis
Muhammad Asali
Simonas Algirdas Spurga
Exchange Rates and Economic Growth During the Global Business Cycle: The Role of Labor Market Institutions
The effect of exchange rate regimes on economic performance is one of the key questions in international economics, both academically and policy-wise. Based on the theory of Optimum Currency Areas ...
((this project received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania, agreement No S-MIP-22-20))
G01, G18, J08, O24, P17
17587 Anna Herget
Regina T. Riphahn
Phasing Out Payroll Tax Subsidies
Many countries subsidize low-income employments or small jobs. These subsidies and their phasing out can generate labor market frictions and distort incentives. The German Minijob program subsidizes ...
(published online in: International Tax and Public Finance, 12 February 2025)
J21, J38, H24
17584 Karan Singhal
Eva Sierminska
Inequality in the Economics Profession
This chapter presents evidence of the challenges faced by women and underrepresented minorities in Economics. It, first, examines the demographics of the economics profession, highlighting ...
(forthcoming in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, Cham.)
A11, A20, J15, J16
17582 Grakolet Gourene
Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Jiří Balcar
Lenka Johnson Filipova
How Credit Constrained Are Family-Owned SMEs in Arab Countries?
Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Review, 2025, 65, 101249)
D22, G21, G32
17571 Jinia Mukerjee
Roy Thurik
Ingrid Verheul
Temporal Focus and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Solo Self-Employed Workers
The temporal dimensions of managerial behavior and their impact on organizational outcomes have garnered increasing attention in the literature. Given the significant role of managers' time ...
(published in: International Review of Entrepreneurship, 2025, 23 (1), 59 - 88)
D22, L26
17560 Gabrielle Pepin
Yulya Truskinovsky
Not Just for Kids: Child and Dependent Care Credit Benefits for Adult Care
As the U.S. population ages, family caregivers face substantial out-of-pocket costs and financial risks while providing the majority of long-term care. The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a ...
(forthcoming in: National Tax Journal)
H24, J14
17556 Indraneel Dasgupta
Dhritiman Gupta
On the Relative Sequencing of Internal and External Rent-Seeking Contests
We consider rent-seeking contests between and within two equal-sized groups. Each group adopts one of three sequences: first internal then external contest, first external then internal contest, and ...
(forthcoming in: Public Choice, 2026)
D70, D72, D74
17553 Cevat Giray Aksoy
Barry Eichengreen
Anastasia Litina
Cem Özgüzel
Chan Yu
Corruption Exposure, Political Trust, and Immigrants
Scholars and politicians have expressed concern that immigrants from countries with low levels of political trust transfer those attitudes to their destination countries. Using large-scale survey ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103440)
Z1, D73
17548 Mathieu Le Moal
Roy Thurik
Olivier Torrčs
Guillaume Soenen
Small Business Owners and Daily Recovery Experiences: The Link with Well-Being and Burnout
We analyse the links between daily recovery experiences after work (detachment, relaxation, mastery and control) and mental health (well-being and burnout) based on four surveys of French small ...
(forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, 2026)
I12, I31, L26
17544 Piotr Lewandowski
Wojciech Szymczak
Automation, Trade Unions and Atypical Employment
We study the effect of the adoption of automation technologies – industrial robots, and software and databases – on the incidence of atypical employment in 13 EU countries between 2006 and 2018. We ...
(published online in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 08 December 2025)
J23, J51, O33
17538 Gabrielle Pepin
What Is the Value of the Child and Dependent Care Credit?
The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC) subsidizes child care costs for working families. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 increased the CDCC's generosity ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2025, 115, 120-125)
H24, J13
17525 Andrew Leigh
Stephen Robson
The Rise of Social Media and the Fall in Mental Wellbeing among Young Australians
Using multiple sources, we document a substantial worsening in the mental wellbeing of Australians aged 15-24, as measured by surveys, self-harm hospitalisations and suicide deaths. The shift began ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2025, 58 (1), 33-38)
D91, I12, L82
17521 Solomon Polachek
Kenneth Romano
Ozlem Tonguc
Homo-Silicus: Not (Yet) a Good Imitator of Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus
Do large language models (LLMs)—such as ChatGPT 3.5, ChatGPT 4.0, and Google's Gemini 1.0 Pro—simulate human behavior in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game with varying stake sizes? This ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of the Economic Science Association)
D01, C72, C90
17516 Nick Drydakis
Small Enterprises' Digital Competencies and Financial Performance
In the contemporary business landscape, digital competencies have become a crucial factor for small enterprises to remain competitive and thrive. The present study examines how a business ...
(published in: V. Aranitou, A. Angelakis, and M. Manioudis (eds), The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Analytical Approaches to Growth and Innovation Challenges Amid Crises in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2025, 55–68)
D25, O14, M53
17509 Alicia De Quinto
Libertad González
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Family-Friendly Policies on Mothers' Employment
Countries often encourage part-time work among new parents as part of their family policies, aiming to foster mothers' labor market attachment. However, this approach may unintentionally impede ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102672)
J08, J13, J16, J18
17506 Oded Stark
Lukasz Balbus
Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs
The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As explained in the body of the paper, we diverge from a result reported in Stark ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, 64, 373–392)
D01, D64, D81, G41
17499 Désirée I. Christofzik
Angela Fuest
Robin Jessen
Macroeconomic Effects of the Anticipation and Implementation of Tax Changes in Germany: Evidence from a Narrative Account
This paper quantifies the dynamic macroeconomic effects of tax changes in Germany, allowing for anticipation effects of preannounced tax reforms. Identification is achieved using a narrative ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (353), 62-81.)
H20, H30, E32, E62
17498 Robin Jessen
Johannes König
Hours Risk and Wage Risk: Repercussions over the Life-Cycle
We decompose earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125( 4), 956–996.)
D31, J22, J31
17492 Xueying Liu
Zhong Zhao
Does Social Pension Insurance Increase the Efficiency of Household Financial Portfolios?
This study investigates the impact of social pension insurance on the efficiency of household financial portfolios, utilizing data from the 2019 wave of the China Household Finance Survey. Our ...
(published in: Finance Research Letters, 2025, 81, 107323)
G59, J24, I28
17490 Joan Costa-Font
Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
The Hidden Value of Adult Informal Care in Europe
The hidden value of adult informal care (IC) refers to the unaccounted value of informal care in overall costs of long-term care (LTC) estimates. This paper estimates the net value of adult IC in ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34 (4), 791-812)
I18, J17, J18
17483 Stephen Machin
Matteo Sandi
Crime and Education
Research studying connections between crime and education is a prominent aspect of the big increase of publication and research interest in the economics of crime field. This work demonstrates a ...
(published online in: Annual Review of Economics, 4 April 2025)
K42
17482 Arnaud Natal
Christophe Jalil Nordman
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
The relationship between personal debt and cognition has received limited attention, especially, in developing countries. This study focuses on India and examines the relationship between Big Five ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2025, 61 (7), 1042 - 1057)
D14, D91, G51, O1
17479 Agata Galkiewicz
Jan Marcus
Thomas Siedler
E-Learning at Universities: Does Starting with Difficult Questions Affect Student Performance?
To reduce cheating in written tests and exams, assessors often randomly vary the order of questions across students. However, little is known about the potential unintended side effects of question ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Human Capital)
A22, I23
17478 Xinyu Li
Wendelin Schnedler
Sharing the Fame but Taking the Blame: When Declaring a Single Person Responsible Solves a Free Rider Problem
Teams are formed because input from different people is needed. Providing incentives to team members, however, can be diffcult. According to received wisdom, declaring all members responsible fails ...
(published online in: Management Science, 24 January 2025)
M54, D23, D86, L23, K12, K13
17475 Vladimir Otrachshenko
Olga Popova
Environment vs. Economic Growth: Do Environmental Preferences Translate Into Support for Green Parties?
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the drivers of electoral support for Green parties and the environmental actions they promote, which is key to ensuring the long-term feasibility ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2026, 239, 108779)
D72, H11, Q56, Q58
17473 Matthias Collischon
Kamila Cygan-Rehm
Regina T. Riphahn
Subsidized Small Jobs and Maternal Labor Market Outcomes in the Long Run
This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, ...
(published online in: Socio-Economic Review, 28 February 2025)
J22, J13, J18
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