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6960 Christiana E. Hilmer
Michael J. Hilmer
Michael R. Ransom
Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists: How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, ...
(revised version published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 82(2), 430–452)
J31, J44
6959 María Laura Alzúa
Guillermo Cruces
Laura Ripani
Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America
This study looks at the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the adult labor supply in developing countries. The analysis builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1255-1284)
J08, J22, I38
6958 Nicole Schneeweis
Vegard Skirbekk
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using ...
(published as 'Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?' in: Demography, 2014, 51 (2), 619-643)
I21, J14
6957 Santiago Budría
Pablo Swedberg
The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables ...
(published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2015, 23 (67), 63-91)
F22, J24, J61
6956 Anita Ratcliffe
Karl Taylor
Who Cares about Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (3), 826-845)
J26, D12
6955 Raymond Montizaan
Frank Cörvers
Andries de Grip
Thomas Dohmen
Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights
We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in ...
(published as 'The Impact of Negatively Reciprocal Inclinations on Worker Behavior: Evidence from a Retrenchment of Pension Rights' in: Management Science, 2016, 62(3), 668-681)
D63, J2
6953 Claire L. Adida
David D. Laitin
Marie-Anne Valfort
Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium
We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086)
C90, D03, J15, J71, Z12
6952 Veronica Grembi
Tommaso Nannicini
Ugo Troiano
Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing ...
(published as 'Do Fiscal Rules Matter?' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (3), 1-30)
C21, C23, H62, H72, H77
6951 Andriana Bellou
Rachana Bhatt
Reducing Underage Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Evidence from the Introduction of Vertical Identification Cards
From 1994-2009, forty-three states changed the design of their driver's license/state identification cards in an effort to reduce underage access to and consumption of alcohol and tobacco. In these ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (2), 353-366)
I1, J1
6950 Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Jan C. van Ours
Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014, 28 (2), 284 - 311)
J64, J65, J68
6948 Christian Belzil
Michael L. Bognanno
François Poinas
Promotion Determinants in Corporate Hierarchies: An Examination of Fast Tracks and Functional Area
This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, 48), 2018)
C33, M5, M51
6947 Christopher Dawson
Andrew Henley
Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53(2), 501-515)
D84, J13, M13
6946 Jacob S. Hacker
Gregory Alain Huber
Austin Nichols
Philipp Rehm
Mark Schlesinger
Robert G. Valletta
Stuart Craig
The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (S1), S5-S32)
I14, D31, J11
6944 Bruce Headey
Ruud Muffels
Gert G. Wagner
Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(3), 909–933)
D60, I31, J13, J22, C33
6943 Arnaud Dupuy
Alfred Galichon
Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1271-1319.)
D3, J21, J23, J31
6942 Arnaud Dupuy
Alfred Galichon
Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383)
C78, D61, C13
6941 Mariya Aleksynska
Giovanni Peri
Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional ...
(published in: World Economy, 2014, 37 (3), 434 - 455)
F14, F16, F22
6940 Amelie F. Constant
Olga Nottmeyer
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Economics of Circular Migration
Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor flows. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of circular ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 3, 55-74)
J61, F22, F24
6939 Alexander M. Danzer
Firat Yaman
Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 311–325)
J15, R23, J61
6938 Giorgio Brunello
Monica Langella
Bridge Jobs in Europe
We study the transitions from career to bridge jobs and to permanent retirement by European males aged 55 to 70 at the time of the interview in the late 2000s. We find that only 10.54 percent of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:11)
J26
6937 Massimiliano Tani
Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy ...
(published in: Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2012, 38(2), 111-141)
C34, J24, J61
6936 Laurent Gobillon
Carine Milcent
Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance
Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (6), 1013-1040)
I11, C41
6935 Olivier Charlot
Franck Malherbet
Mustafa Ulus
Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector
We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194)
E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
6934 Murat Iyigun
Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the ...
(published in: Annual Proceedings of the Wealth & Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5, 73-84)
O11, O57, N10
6933 Krzysztof Karbownik
Michal Myck
For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24(4), 705-725 )
J13, J22
6932 John H. Pencavel
Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the ...
(published in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, Edward Elgar, 2013)
J54
6931 David C. Ribar
Immigrants' Time Use: A Survey of Methods and Evidence
This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It ...
(published in: A. Constant and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook of the Economics of Migration, Cheltenham, 2013, 373-92)
J22, J61
6930 Gabriella Conti
James J. Heckman
The Economics of Child Well-Being
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in ...
(published in: A. Ben-Arieh, F. Casas, I. Frones, and J. Korbin (eds.), Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods, and Policies in Global Perspective, Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, 2013)
J13, I21, D03, D04
6929 Tin-chi Lin
Alicia Adsera
Son Preference and Children's Housework: The Case of India
Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2013, 32 (4), 553-584)
J13, J22, O15, J16
6928 Laurent Gobillon
Dominique Meurs
Sébastien Roux
Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(2), 317-363)
J16, J31, J71
6927 Kadir Atalay
Fayzan Bakhtiar
Stephen L. Cheung
Robert Slonim
Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107 (A), 86-106)
E21, D14, C91, L83, D12
6925 Laszlo Goerke
Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 167-169)
D62, J22, J33
6924 Pieter Bevelander
Ravi Pendakur
The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014, 40 (5), 689-709.)
F22, J61, J68
6923 Eric Strobl
Marie-Anne Valfort
The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Uganda
Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29 (2), 385-412)
E24, J21, J61, Q54, R23
6922 Stephen L. Cheung
Morten Hedegaard
Stefan Palan
To See Is To Believe: Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets
We challenge the recent claim that mispricing in the experimental asset markets introduced by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988) is merely an artefact of confusion over declining fundamental value, ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 84-96)
C92, D84, G12
6921 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014)
D33, J61
6920 Isaac Ehrlich
Yong Yin
The Problem of the Uninsured
The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called ...
(published in: Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong (eds.), Research in Economics, 2018, 72 (1), 147-168)
G22, H42, I13, I28
6919 Johannes Abeler
Anke Becker
Armin Falk
Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment
A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104)
C93, D01, D82, D83
6918 Andrea Bassanini
Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions
I examine the effect of labour market policies and institutions on the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to the labour market, using both aggregate and industry-level annual data for 23 OECD ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 3 (3), Article 1)
J21, J31, J60
6917 Aedin Doris
Donal O'Neill
Olive Sweetman
Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement
This paper examines the determinants of mathematical achievement among primary school children. Previous studies have found that boys perform better in maths than girls, particularly at the upper end ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 104-119)
J24, I21
6916 Jeffrey V. Butler
Paola Giuliano
Luigi Guiso
Trust, Values and False Consensus
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (3), 889-915)
A1, A12, D1, Z1
6915 Steven W. Cole
Gabriella Conti
Jesusa M. Arevalo
Angela M. Ruggiero
James J. Heckman
Stephen J. Suomi
Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109(50), 20578-20583)
I12, J13
6914 Philipp Doerrenberg
Denvil Duncan
Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 48–70)
H21, H24, H26, J22
6913 Magnus Carlsson
Gordon B. Dahl
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
How schooling affects cognitive skills is a fundamental question for studies of human capital and labor markets. While scores on cognitive ability tests are positively associated with schooling, it ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 533–547)
J24, I20
6912 Karine Torosyan
Randall K. Filer
Tax Reform in Georgia and the Size of the Shadow Economy
This paper applies three different methods widely used in the literature to track changes in shadow economic activity in Georgia following a drastic tax reform in 2005. The first method is a currency ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2014, 22 (1), 179 - 210)
E01, H26, J39
6911 Gilles Saint-Paul
Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained ...
(published in: Economic Affairs, 2013, 33 (1), 119–126)
B40, D03, D10, H10
6910 Denvil Duncan
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23 (4), 762 - 783 )
H2, I3, J3, O1, O2
6908 Luca Flabbi
James Mabli
Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates
Search Models of the labor market are widespread and influential but they usually ignore that labor market decisions are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and ...
(published as 'Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 35 (1), 1 - 46)
J64, D63, C63
6907 Deng Quheng
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Shi Li
Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China
Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436)
D31, J62, P32
6906 Jean-Olivier Hairault
Thomas Le Barbanchon
Thepthida Sopraseuth
The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France
In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 60-84 )
E24, J6
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