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7307 Ronen Bar-El
Yossef Tobol
Contribution Games and the End-Game Effect: When Things Get Real – An Experimental Analysis
We conduct a contribution game for a real public good and show that when the contributors value the real public good highly, they increase their contributions in each round. Thus, contrary to ...
(published as 'Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2016, 65, 27-37 (with Yuval Arbel))
C72, C92, H41
7306 W. Bentley MacLeod
Daniel Parent
Transactions Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy
In this paper we adapt the model of MacLeod (2007) to provide one way to formally implement some of Williamson's ideas regarding the effect of transactions costs upon employment relationship. We then ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2015, 31 (S1), i40–i76,)
J33
7305 Shelly Lundberg
The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality
I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 421-441 )
I24
7304 Vincenzo Caponi
Miana Plesca
Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on legal and illegal immigrants to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 923-960)
J15, F22
7303 Arnaud Dupuy
The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82 (325), 24-45.)
D3, J21, J23, J31
7302 Luca Colombo
Herbert Dawid
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the formation of start-ups – proxied by the ease of access to financial resources – ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49, 513-531.)
O31, L26
7301 Silvia Mendolia
Ian Walker
The Effect of Non-Cognitive Traits on Health Behaviours in Adolescence
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and health behaviours using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2014, 23 (9), 1146-1158)
I18, I28
7300 Redzo Mujcic
Paul Frijters
Still Not Allowed on the Bus: It Matters If You're Black or White!
We employ a natural field experiment to study the extent and nature of racial discrimination in Queensland, Australia. Mimicking the historical case of Rosa Parks who was denied seating in a bus ...
(published as 'The Colour of a Free Ride' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (634), 970–999)
C93, J15, J71, D03
7299 Mark W. Nichols
Mehmet S. Tosun
The Impact of Legalized Casino Gambling on Crime
We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 66, 1-15.)
H71, L83
7298 Aaron K. Chatterji
Kenneth Y. Chay
Robert W. Fairlie
The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 507-561 )
J15, L26
7296 Heather Antecol
Ozkan Eren
Serkan Ozbeklik
The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 113-125)
C21, I21, I28, J24
7294 Mirco Tonin
Michael Vlassopoulos
Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 66, 112-118)
D64, J39
7293 Yoram Weiss
Junjian Yi
Junsen Zhang
Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior
We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in ...
(revised version published as 'Cross-border marriage costs and marriage behavior: Theory and Evidence' in: International Economic Review, 2018. 59 (2), 757 -784)
F22, J11, J12
7291 Alexander Hijzen
Sébastien Martin
The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis
There has been a strong interest in short-time work (STW) schemes during the global financial crisis. Using data for 23 OECD countries for the period 2004 Q1 to 2010 Q4, this paper analyses the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:5)
J23, J65, J68
7290 David C. Ribar
Is Leaving Home a Hardship?
Nest-leaving – the transition of young adults from their parents' homes to other living arrangements – is a major life-course milestone. Although the causes of nest-leaving have been extensively ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal 2015, 81(3), 598-618)
J12, J13
7289 Alicia Adsera
Ana Ferrer
The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada
In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions at the time of arrival may be crucial in determining immigrants' economic ...
(revised version published as 'The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada' in: International Migration Review, 2016, 50 (2), 475 - 505)
J11, J13, J15
7288 Donal O'Neill
Olive Sweetman
Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error
Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using ...
(published as 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' in; Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, 857-871 )
C13, C26, I14
7286 Matteo Cervellati
Uwe Sunde
Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2013, 81 (5), 2055–2086)
E20, J22, J24, J26, O11
7285 Martin Kahanec
Brian Fabo
Migration Strategies of the Crisis-Stricken Youth in an Enlarged European Union
This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged European Union at the onset of the Great Recession. We use the Eurobarometer ...
(published in: Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 2013, 19 (3), 365-380)
F22, J61
7284 Ulrich Kaiser
Bettina Müller
Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time
We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 45 (4), 787-804 )
C10, L26, M13
7283 Nicholas-James Clavet
Jean-Yves Duclos
Guy Lacroix
Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (4), 491-516)
C25, D31, D63, H31, I30, J22
7282 Cristina Cattaneo
Carlo V. Fiorio
Giovanni Peri
What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants "Take Their Jobs"?
In this paper we use a dataset that follows a representative sample of native Europeans, resident of 11 countries, over the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2013, 2:17)
J61, O15
7279 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Gert G. Wagner
Top?Down vs. Bottom?Up: The Long?Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and ...
(published as 'Inevitable? Doping Attitudes among Berliners in 2011: The Role of Socialist State Socialisation and Athlete Experience' in: European Journal of Public Health, 2016, 26 (3), 520-522 )
I18, K40, L83, N34, Z13
7277 Almas Heshmati
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Kai Sun
Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.)
C14, C23, C51, D24, L25, L94
7276 Sónia Torres
Pedro Portugal
John T. Addison
Paulo Guimaraes
The Sources of Wage Variation: A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model
This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese wage earners over a little ...
(revised version published as 'The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: A Three-Way High Dimensional Fixed-Effects Regression Model" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 47-60.)
J2, J41
7275 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Mintewab Bezabih
The Transformation of Hunger Revisited
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late 19th century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan's estimates are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75(2), 512 - 552)
I15, I32, N33
7274 Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Matias Vaira-Lucero
Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95, S107-S126.)
F22, J01, J61, Z13
7273 Michael A. Kuhn
Peter J. Kuhn
Marie Claire Villeval
The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us ...
(Revised version published as "Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?" in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 72-89, 2017.)
C91, D90
7272 Ignacio González
Hector Sala
Investment Crowding-Out and Labor Market Effects of Financialization in the U.S.
This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 589-613)
D2, E22, E24, G2
7270 Corrado Giulietti
Jackline Wahba
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 37, 65-92)
J23, J61, O15
7269 Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Raymond Montizaan
How Sensitive Are Individual Retirement Expectations to Raising the Retirement Age?
This paper investigates the causal effects of the announcement of an increase in the statutory pension age on employee retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161, 225–251)
J14, J26
7268 Abel Brodeur
Mathias Lé
Marc Sangnier
Yanos Zylberberg
Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32)
A11, B41, C13, C44
7266 Bart Cockx
Corinna Ghirelli
Bruno Van der Linden
Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI ...
(revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95 )
D60, D90, J64, J65, J68
7265 Johannes Binswanger
Martin Salm
Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding
We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities ...
(revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85 )
D03, D81, D84, G11
7263 William H. Rogers
Anne E. Winkler
The Relationship between the Housing & Labor Market Crises and Doubling-Up: An MSA-Level Analysis, 2005-2010
It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. ...
(Published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2013)
R23, J12
7262 Stijn Baert
Bart Cockx
Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294)
C35, J15, J70
7261 Casey Boyd-Swan
Chris M. Herbst
John Ifcher
Homa Zarghamee
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness
This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, 18-38)
I1, J00
7260 Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?
Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 702-729 )
J68, J21, P52, O57
7259 Christine Binzel
Jean-Paul Carvalho
Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580)
D10, D63, I24, J24, J62, O10, Z12, Z13
7257 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Lene Kromann
An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes
Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second-generation immigrants have the same job-offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes ...
(published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16)
J15, J61, J71
7256 Abel Brodeur
Sarah Flèche
Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and ...
(published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238)
C25, D00, J31
7254 Evelyn L. Lehrer
Yu Chen
The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of ...
(published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.)
J22, J24, Z12, Z13
7253 Sabien Dobbelaere
Kozo Kiyota
Jacques Mairesse
Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322)
C23, D21, J50, L13
7252 Nicole Bosch
Bas ter Weel
Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (2), 199-218)
J24, J60
7251 Hong Liu
Qi Sun
Zhong Zhao
Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 84–102)
I1, G22
7250 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Martin Karlsson
The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
This article evaluates an expansion of employer-mandated sick leave from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference-in-difference (DID), matching ...
(short version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29(2), 208-230)
H51, I18, J22, J32
7248 Ulrich Kaiser
Susan J. Méndez
Thomas Rønde
Hannes Ullrich
Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 174-187)
I18, C23
7246 Gianna Claudia Giannelli
Lucia Mangiavacchi
Luca Piccoli
Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013)
D1, I1, J13, J22
7245 Orley Ashenfelter
David E. Bloom
Gordon B. Dahl
Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play
Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2013, 10 (3), 399-423)
J52, K0
7244 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 275-303.)
D33, E25
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