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6885 Jennifer Hunt
Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (1), 199-22)
J16, J44
6884 Sandra Hentschel
Gerd Muehlheusser
Dirk Sliwka
The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016)
D22, J44, J63
6883 Niaz Asadullah
Rupa Chakrabarti
Nazmul Chaudhury
What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, 67(2), 186–207)
D04, I21, O15
6881 Nauro F. Campos
Jeffrey B. Nugent
The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system ...
(published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.)
J41, J65, J33, K31, O21
6880 Alessio J. G. Brown
Johannes Koettl
Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:12)
J08, J22, J23, J38, E24
6879 N. Meltem Daysal
Mircea Trandafir
Reyn van Ewijk
Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7(3), 28-50)
I11, I12, I18, J13
6878 Alan Barrett
Irene Mosca
Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and ...
(revised version published as 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (1), 29-45)
J14, J15
6877 Denis Conniffe
Donal O'Neill
An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
There is a large literature estimating Arrow-Pratt coefficients of absolute and relative risk aversion. A striking feature of this literature is the very wide variation in the reported estimates of ...
(published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102)
C91, D81, G11
6876 Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?
Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of ...
(published in K. Nishimura et al. (eds.), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics, Studies in Economic Theory 31, Springer 2017.)
E32, E62
6875 Alessia Matano
Paolo Naticchioni
Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 55-59)
C33, J16, J31, J41, L25
6874 Daniel J. Henderson
Esfandiar Maasoumi
Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment
This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially ...
(published in: Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
C14
6873 John T. Addison
Orgul Demet Ozturk
Si Wang
Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317)
J16, J31, J51, J62
6872 Javier E. Baez
Dorothy Kronick
Andrew D. Mason
Rural Households in a Changing Climate
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 267–289)
Q12, Q54, O13
6871 Steven Stillman
John Gibson
David McKenzie
Halahingano Rohorua
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 79-93)
I31, J61
6869 John V. Winters
Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (5), 799-822)
J21, J24, R23
6868 Daniela Del Boca
Chiara Monfardini
Cheti Nicoletti
Self Investments of Adolescents and their Cognitive Development
While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children ...
(published as 'Parental and child time and cognitive development of adolescents' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 565-608)
J13, D1
6867 Louis N. Christofides
Michael Hoy
Joniada Milla
Thanasis Stengos
Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes
We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45 (1), 48-82 )
I20, J00
6866 Kristin Göbel
Michael Grimm
Jann Lay
Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110)
D13, D61, O12
6865 Robert Slonim
Carmen Wang
Ellen Garbarino
Danielle Merrett
Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 43-70)
C9
6864 Prashant Bharadwaj
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Christopher A. Neilson
Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1862-91)
I38, J13, J24
6863 Raymond Montizaan
Maarten C.M. Vendrik
Misery Loves Company: Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being
This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 1-26)
D63, D1, I3, J26
6862 M. Shahe Emran
Fenohasina Maret-Rakotondrazaka
Stephen C. Smith
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2014, 50 (4), 481-501)
I2, O12, D1, J12
6861 Yoichi Hizen
Keisuke Kawata
Masaru Sasaki
An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76)
C91, D83
6860 Stefan Bauernschuster
Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Jens Suedekum
Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69)
J61, R23, D81
6859 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106)
L82, L33, L10
6857 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Chad Sparber
In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and its Impact on College Enrollment, Tuition Costs, Student Financial Aid, and Indebtedness
The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 49, 11-24.)
F22, J15, I23, I28
6854 Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2015, 35 (3), 191 - 209)
F22, J61, J31, J24
6853 Yuanyuan Chen
Shuaizhang Feng
Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2013, 26, 75-88)
I28, J15, O15
6852 Govert Bijwaard
Stijn van Doeselaar
The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997 )
J12, F22, C41
6851 Quang Nguyen
Marie Claire Villeval
Hui Xu
Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572)
C91, C93, D81, D90, O10, O53
6850 Gil S. Epstein
Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State
A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to ...
(published in: Korean Economic Review, 2012, 28 (2), 117-136.)
F22, O15, D6
6849 Andreas I. Mueller
Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (7), 2081-2107)
E24, E32, J63
6848 Kailing Shen
Peter J. Kuhn
Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We ...
(published in: Corrado Giulietti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Research in Labor Economics, vol 37, Labor Market Issues in China, Emerald, 2013)
J64, J24
6845 Michaela Trax
Stephan Brunow
Jens Suedekum
Cultural Diversity and Plant?Level Productivity
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 85-96 )
R23, J21, J31
6844 Christopher Dawson
David Emmanuel de Meza
Andrew Henley
Reza Arabsheibani
Entrepreneurship: Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?
Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2014, 23(4), 717–742)
D84, M13
6843 Benjamin Elsner
Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 531-553)
F22, J61, R23
6842 Grant R. McDermott
Řivind Anti Nilsen
Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper ...
(revised version published in: Land Economics, 2014 90 (1), 131-148.)
Q25, Q41, Q5, C3
6841 Albrecht Glitz
Ethnic Segregation in Germany
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using matched employer-employee data for the universe of German workers over the period 1975 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 28-40)
J61, J63, J31
6839 Luc Behaghel
Julie Moschion
Skilled Labor Supply, IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability
We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 ...
(published as 'IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 79 - 104)
J23, J24, J41
6838 Jonathan Wadsworth
Musn't Grumble: Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany
A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (1), 55-82)
H00, J00
6837 Gil S. Epstein
Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration
Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their ...
(published in: A. Constant and K. F. Zimmermann (eds): International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar, 2013)
F22, P48, O15
6836 Badi H. Baltagi
Yusuf Soner Baskaya
Timur Hulagu
How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey
This paper presents wage curves for formal and informal workers using a rich individual level data for Turkey over the period 2005-2009. The wage curve is an empirical regularity describing a ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92, 271-283.)
C26, J30, J60, O17
6835 Philip Jung
Moritz Kuhn
Earnings Losses and Labor Mobility over the Lifecycle
Extensive literature demonstrates that workers with high tenure suffer large and persistent earnings losses when they are displaced. We study the reasons behind these losses in a tractable search ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (3), 678–724)
E24, J63, J64
6834 Tito Boeri
Marta De Philippis
Eleonora Patacchini
Michele Pellizzari
Moving to Segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian Cities
We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125, F82-F114.)
J15, J61, R23
6832 Peter Kooreman
Rational Students and Resit Exams
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 213-215)
D01, I21
6831 Gil S. Epstein
Renana Lindner Pomerantz
Assimilation through Marriage
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 191–203.)
F22, R23
6830 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1005-1043)
J68, C14, H43
6829 Sascha O. Becker
Francesco Cinnirella
Erik Hornung
Ludger Woessmann
iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian ...
(published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66)
N13, N33
6826 Tito Boeri
Pietro Garibaldi
Espen R. Moen
The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks
The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first ...
(published as 'Financial Shocks and Labor: Facts and Theories' in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 631-663)
G1, J2, J6
6825 Chiara Monfardini
Sarah Grace See
Birth Order and Child Outcomes: Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the ...
(published as 'Birth Order and Child Cognitive Outcomes: an Exploration of the Parental Time Mechanism' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (5), 481- 495 )
D13, J12, J13, J22, J24
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