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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
15922 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Lyliana Gayoso de Ervin
Juan José Galeano
Juan Pablo Baquero
Understanding the Distributional Impacts of Increases in Fuel Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Paraguay
The recent global increases in fuel prices threaten the gains in poverty reduction that countries like Paraguay have achieved over the past few decades. Therefore, policy makers must understand the ...
(published in: Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Económico, 2023, 21 (39), 77 - 108)
D6, Q4, I3, P36
15921 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Fernando Rios-Avila
Flavia Sacco-Capurro
Recovering Income Distribution in the Presence of Interval-Censored Data
This paper proposes a method to analyze interval-censored data, using multiple imputation based on a heteroskedastic interval regression approach. The proposed model aims to obtain a synthetic data ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1039 - 1060)
C150, C340, J3
15920 Liang Choon Wang
Michael Vlassopoulos
Asadul Islam
Hashibul Hassan
Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
The Covid-19 pandemic caused prolonged school closures worldwide. Children in resource- poor settings were particularly affected given their limited access to remedial distance learning opportunities ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024, 2 (3), 562–601)
C93, I21, I24
15916 Hai-Anh H Dang
Shatakshee Dhongde
Minh N.N. Do
Cuong Viet Nguyen
Obert Pimhidzai
Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2025, 29 (4), 2063-2075)
C15, D31, I31, O10, O57
15913 Bernt Bratsberg
Anna Godøy
Rannveig Kaldager Hart
Oddbjørn Raaum
Bjørn-Atle Reme
Jonathan Wörn
Work Loss and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
We study the impact of work loss on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining data on work loss and health care consultations from comprehensive individual-level register data, we define ...
(published in: BMC Public Health, 2023, 23, 1447)
I12, I14, I18, J65
15911 Cynthia Bansak
Eva Dziadula
Madeline Zavodny
The Value of a Green Card in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Tale of Chain Migration?
This study examines the impact of having a clear path to lawful permanent resident status, or a "green card," and naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102062)
J12, J15, K37
15910 Andrea Bassanini
Cyprien Batut
Eve Caroli
Labor Market Concentration and Wages: Incumbents versus New Hires
We investigate the impact of labor market concentration on average wages and decompose it into its effects on new hires and incumbents, where incumbents are defined as individuals who were already ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81, 102338.)
J31, J42, L41
15908 Oded Stark
Risk-laden Migration as a Response to Relative Deprivation: A Hypothesis
Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen ...
(published as 'An Integrated Theory of Relative Deprivation and Risk-Laden Migration' in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Vol. 2. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2024, 165–175)
D81, D91, F22, J61
15907 Damian Clarke
Daniel Pailañir
Susan Athey
Guido W. Imbens
Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Estimation
In this paper, we describe a computational implementation of the Synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID) estimator of Arkhangelsky et al. (2021) for Stata. Synthetic difference-in-differences can ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2024, 24 (4), 557-598)
C13, C87, C23, C52, C63
15905 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using ...
(forthcoming in: Oxford Handbook of Income Distribution and Economic Growth)
J60, J64, J68
15904 Richard A. Easterlin
Kelsey J. O'Connor
Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs— increasing happiness going with ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (37), e2210639119. )
I31, I38, D60, O10, Q53, Z13
15902 Maria Esther Oswald-Egg
Michael Siegenthaler
Train Drain? Access to Foreign Workers and Firms' Provision of Training
Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102436)
J24, J63, M53
15899 Asadul Islam
Gita Kusnadi
Jahen Rezki
Armand Sim
Giovanni van Empel
Michael Vlassopoulos
Yves Zenou
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy Using Local Ambassadors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Indonesia
In settings where resistance and rampant misinformation against vaccines exist, the prospect of containing infectious diseases remains a challenge. Can delivery of information regarding the benefits ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104683)
I1, I12, I18, I20, I3
15898 Gabriele Cardullo
Maurizio Conti
Andrea Ricci
Sergio Scicchitano
Giovanni Sulis
On the Emergence of Cooperative Industrial and Labor Relations
We explore the long run determinants of current differences in the degree of cooperative labor relations at local level. We do this by estimating the causal effect of the medieval communes - that ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (3), 568 - 590)
J50, J53, J59, N00
15897 Mark A. Andor
Thomas K. Bauer
Jana Eßer
Christoph M. Schmidt
Lukas Tomberg
Who Gets Vaccinated? Cognitive and Non-cognitive Predictors of Individual Behavior in Pandemics
This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 87 (3), 562-585)
D91, H0, I12, I18
15895 Shintaro Yamaguchi
Hirotake Ito
Makiko Nakamuro
Month-of-Birth Effects on Skills and Skill Formation
We estimate month-of-birth effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as factors relevant to skill formation. Our estimates indicate that younger students in a given grade cohort have ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102392)
I20, I24, J24
15893 Nils Braakmann
Boris Hirsch
Unions as Insurance: Employer–Worker Risk Sharing and Workers' Outcomes during COVID-19
We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (2), 152-171)
J51, I18, I19, J63
15891 Mareen Bastiaans
Robert Dur
Anne C. Gielen
Activating the Long-Term Inactive: Labor Market and Mental Health Effects
In many Western countries, a sizeable group of people live on welfare benefits for a long time. Many of them suffer from mental health issues. This paper studies the labor market and mental health ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102593)
H53, I19, I38, J68
15889 Mahesh Karra
Joshua Wilde
Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2024, 50 (S2), 539-569 )
J13, J16, J11, J18, I12, I15
15888 Massimiliano Tani
Zhiming Cheng
Benno Torgler
Is There Hope after Despair? An Analysis of Trust among China's Cultural Revolution Survivors
We study the long-term effects of the Cultural Revolution, characterised by widespread violence, summary executions and chaos, on a set of trust outcomes among people surveyed by the China Survey in ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2023, 121, 106218)
D3
15886 Jacqueline Strenio
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Integrating Gender into a Labor Economics Class
This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is both beneficial and straightforward. An undergraduate course in labor economics ...
(published in: Advances in Economics Education, 2023, 2 (1), 26 - 44)
A2, J1, O1
15884 Catia Nicodemo
Cristina E. Orso
Cristina Tealdi
Overseas GPs and Prescription Behaviour in England
The UK imports many doctors from abroad, where medical training and experience might be different. This study attempts to understand how drug prescription behaviour differs in English GP practices ...
(published as 'Overseas general practitioners (GPs) and prescription behaviour in England' in: Health Policy, 2024, 140, 104967)
I1, C01, C55, C8
15883 Jonathan Portes
John Springford
The Impact of the Post-Brexit Migration System on the UK Labour Market
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represents a major structural change to the UK labour market. We provide a descriptive assessment of the impact on a ...
(published in: Contemporary Social Science, 2023, 18:2, 132-149 )
F22, J48, J61, J68
15882 Stefania Basiglio
Daniela Del Boca
Chiara D. Pronzato
The Impact of the
This paper evaluates the impact of "Coding Girls", an educational enrichment program designed to address the underrepresentation of women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2024, 70 (3), 271 - 283)
J16, I23
15881 W. Bentley MacLeod
James Malcomson
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On
"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economicsi (JITE), 2023, 179 (3), 470 - 499)
D21, D23, D82, D86, L14, L22, L23, L24
15880 Gabriel Burdin
Jose Garcia-Louzao
Employee-Owned Firms and the Careers of Young Workers
Using detailed administrative data from Spain, we investigate the impact of having an initial work experience in an employee-owned firm (EOF) versus a conventional business on subsequent earnings. We ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 93, 102686)
J31, J50, J62
15879 Uwe Jirjahn
Thi Xuan Thu Le
Works Councils and Workers' Party Preferences in Germany
Research on the consequences of works councils has been dominated by economic aspects. Our study provides evidence that works councils have nonfinancial consequences for civic society that go beyond ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (4), 849 - 877)
D72, J51, J52, J58
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