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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
15877 Jonas Cuzulan Hirani
Miriam Wüst
Reminder Design and Childhood Vaccination Coverage
A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics. 2024, 93, 102832)
I1, I12, I18
15874 Sandra E. Black
Jeffrey T. Denning
Lisa J. Dettling
Sarena Goodman
Lesley J. Turner
Taking It to the Limit: Effects of Increased Student Loan Availability on Attainment, Earnings, and Financial Well-Being
Growing reliance on student loans and repayment difficulties have raised concerns of a student debt crisis in the United States, but little is known about the effects of student borrowing on human ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 113 (12), 3357–3400)
I20, I22, I21
15873 Hai-Anh H Dang
Talip Kilic
Kseniya Abanokova
Calogero Carletto
Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements
Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2025, 71 (1), e12714)
C15, I32, O15
15871 Giorgio Brunello
Maria De Paola
Lorenzo Rocco
Pension Reforms, Longer Working Horizons and Absence from Work
Using matched employer-employee data for Italy and newly available information on sick leaves certificates, we study the effect of an exogenous increase in the length of the residual work horizon – ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38, 9 (2025))
J22, J26
15870 Cevat Giray Aksoy
José María Barrero
Nicholas Bloom
Steven J. Davis
Mathias Dolls
Pablo Zarate
Time Savings When Working from Home
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate ...
(published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 597–603)
work from home, commute times, allocation of time savings, COVID-19
15866 Simone Bertoli
Morgane Laouénan
Jérôme Valette
Border Apprehensions and Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Citizens in the United States
We provide evidence that Hispanic citizens receive significantly longer sentences than non-Hispanic citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System in the United States when a higher number of ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Law and Economics)
K42, J15, F22
15865 Natalia Kuosmanen
Terhi Maczulskij
The Role of Firm Dynamics in the Green Transition: Carbon Productivity Decomposition in Finnish Manufacturing
This paper explores the importance of firm dynamics, including entry and exit and the allocation of carbon emissions across firms, on the green transition. Using the 2000–2019 firm-level register ...
(published as 'Going green while getting lean: Decomposing carbon and total factor green productivity' in: Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, 352, 120046.)
D24, L60, Q54
15864 Marco Bertoni
Giorgio Brunello
Lorenzo Cappellari
Maria De Paola
The Long-Run Earnings Effects of Winning a Mayoral Election
We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the selection of local political leaders. We use Italian administrative social security data ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization)
D72, J44, J45
15863 Giovanni Abbiati
Davide Azzolini
Anja Balanskat
Katja Engelhart
Daniela Piazzalunga
Enrico Rettore
Patricia Wastiau
Effects of an Online Self-Assessment Tool on Teachers' Digital Competencies
We evaluate the effects of an online self-assessment tool on teachers' competencies and beliefs about ICT in education. The causal impact of the tool is evaluated through a randomized encouragement ...
(published online as 'Exploring the Potential of Self-Assessment for Teachers’ Development of ICT Competencies and Beliefs' in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 24 January 2025)
I21, C93
15861 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification
This paper links Native American racial self-identification with the rise in tribal gaming across the United States. We find that state policy changes allowing tribes to open casinos are associated ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2547 - 2585)
J15, L83, Z13
15859 Damian Clarke
Pilar Larroulet
Daniel Pailañir
Daniela Quintana
Schools as Safety Nets: Break-Downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence against Children
Schools are a key channel in formal reporting of violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study how widespread such reporting declines are, ...
(pubished online in: Journal of Human Resources, 07 March 2025)
D10, I28, I18, K42
15858 Sarah Komisarow
Steven W. Hemelt
School-Based Healthcare and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine
The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2024, 19(2), 252-282)
I10, I21
15857 Zheyuan Zhang
Zhong Zhao
Women's Education and Fertility in China
Using data from the China Family Panel Studies, this paper exploits the Compulsory Education Law of China implemented in the 1980s to empirically examine the causal impact of women's education on ...
( published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 78, 101936)
I25, J11, J13
15854 Harry Pickard
Thomas Dohmen
Bert van Landeghem
Inequality and Risk Preference
This paper studies the relationship between income inequality and risk taking. Increased income inequality is likely to enlarge the scope for upward comparisons and, in the presence of ...
([This version: February 2024] published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 69, 191 - 217)
D91, O15, D81, D01
15853 Mouna Ben Abdeljelil
Christophe Rault
Fateh Belaïd
Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions: New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology ...
(published in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2023, 56, 1537-1566)
O44, Q53, R58
15851 Ioannis Kospentaris
Leslie S. Stratton
The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and Non-hispanic Men: 1970-2019
We describe how ethnic disparities in the labor market between prime aged Hispanic and non-Hispanic white men have evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38 (1), 3)
J15, J21, J31, J71
15850 Emanuele Albarosa
Benjamin Elsner
Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany
A commonly expressed concern about immigration is that it undermines social cohesion in the receiving country. In this paper, we study the impact of a large and sudden inflow of asylum seekers on ...
(published in: World Development, 2023,167, 106228)
J15, J61
15849 Benoît Schmutz
Gregory Verdugo
Do Elections Affect Immigration? Evidence From French Municipalities
Using thirty years of municipal elections in France, we show that election results affect the share of immigrants across municipalities. In municipalities where a left- instead of right-wing mayor ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 218, 104803)
D72, H4, H7, R38
15848 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Daniel Rodriguez
Claudia Stier
Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Performance of Start-Ups
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, 1027–1051)
L26, M13, D91
15844 Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer
Claus Schnabel
Is There a Union Wage Premium in Germany and Which Workers Benefit Most?
Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a ...
(published in: Economies, 2023, 11 (2), 50)
J31, J53
15843 D. Mark Anderson
Yang Liang
Joseph J. Sabia
Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities: A Reassessment
Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828–843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2024, 39 (3), 513-521)
C13, I12, K32, K42
15842 Qinghe Su
Mehtabul Azam
Does Access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Reduce Women Household Burden? Evidence from India
Using the nationally representative Indian Time Use Survey, we study whether the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2023, 119, 106529)
J22, O12, O13, O33
15841 Shruti Sengupta
Mehtabul Azam
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Marriage and Fertility: Evidence from Indian Census
Using a district-level panel constructed from five waves of decennial Indian censuses covering 1971-2011, we examine the medium-term (1991-2001) and long-term (1991-2011) impacts of the 1991 Indian ...
(published online in: Oxford Economic Papers, 15 November 2024)
J12, J13, O12
15839 Xin Zhang
Xun Zhang
Yuehua Liu
Xintong Zhao
Xi Chen
The Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution through the Lens of Health Spending in China
This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2023, 36, 1269–1292)
Q51, Q53, I11, I31
15838 Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel
Daniel Rosenblum
Estimating the Effects of Expanding Ultrasound Use on Sex Selection in India
The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s led to an unprecedented increase in the availability of prenatal ultrasound technology. In this paper, we analyze the differential spread of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (4), 516-532)
J13, J16, O1
15837 John Chiwuzulum Odozi
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2023, 6 (4), 297-309.)
D31, I32, O15, O10
15835 Kusum Mundra
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
In Need of a Roof: Pandemic and Housing Vulnerability
Housing is a basic need and is intricately connected to a household's health and wellness. The current pandemic has exposed the housing vulnerability for certain subgroups of the population and ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2024, 7, 27 - 44)
R2, R3, J10, I31
15829 Stephen B. Billings
Noah Braun
Daniel Jones
Ying Shi
Disparate Racial Impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on Voter Turnout
In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) that enabled federal electoral oversight in select jurisdictions. We study whether ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105047)
D72, J15, K16
15828 Younghwan Song
Jia Gao
Do Fathers Have Son Preference in the United States? Evidence from Paternal Subjective Well-Being
Using data drawn from 2010, 2012, and 2013 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Modules, this paper examines the existence of son preference among fathers in the U.S. by estimating the effect of child ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, 1083-1117)
J13, J16, I31
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