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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6718 Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 839-871)
L14, I21
6716 Mirco Tonin
Michael Vlassopoulos
Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811)
D64, J24, J32, L3, M14, M52
6714 Søren Dalsgaard
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based ...
(substantially extended version available as IZA DP#8208)
I1
6713 Herbert Brücker
Elke J. Jahn
Richard Upward
Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 205-225)
F22, J31, J61
6712 Riemer Faber
Pierre Koning
Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?
This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (1), 60 - 95 )
H77, H20, H71, I38
6710 Paolo Crosetto
Antonio Filippin
The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task
This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65)
C81, C91, D81
6709 José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Almudena Sevilla
Trends in Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis
Using detailed time-use data for seven industrialized countries from the 1970s until today we document general decreases in men's market work coupled with increases in men's unpaid work and child ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56(6), 1338-1359)
D12, D13, J2
6708 Almudena Sevilla
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
Jonathan I. Gershuny
Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ...
(published in: Demography, 2012, 49(3), 939-964)
C13, C23, D13, J12, J16, Z13
6707 Kristiina Huttunen
Jenni Kellokumpu
The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions
This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data (FLEED) matched to birth records. We distinguish between male and female job losses. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (2), 403-442)
J65, J13, J12
6706 Monique de Haan
Erik Plug
José Rosero
Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador
In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador using a large national database together with self-collected survey data. Using family fixed effects models ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (2), 359-392)
D1, I2, J1
6705 Chandler McClellan
Erdal Tekin
Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides
The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation's attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (3), 621-653 )
I1, K14, K42
6704 Wolfgang Frimmel
Martin Halla
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Can Pro-Marriage Policies Work? An Analysis of Marginal Marriages
Policies to promote marriage are controversial, and it is unclear whether they are successful. To analyze such policies, it is essential to distinguish between a marriage that is created by a ...
(published in: Demography, 2014, 51(4), 1357-1379)
J12, H24, H53, I38
6703 John V. Winters
Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values
Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in “real wages”, where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 51 (2), 377-409)
R13, R21, R23
6702 Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Magne Mogstad
How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Disability Insurance (DI) programs have long been criticized by economists for apparent work disincentives. Some countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 624-655)
H53, H55, I18, J21
6701 Thomas K. Bauer
Julia Bredtmann
Christoph M. Schmidt
Time vs. Money: The Supply of Voluntary Labor and Charitable Donations across Europe
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 32, 80–94)
H41, J22, L31
6700 Daiji Kawaguchi
Jungmin Lee
Daniel S. Hamermesh
A Gift of Time
How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 205-216)
J22, D13
6699 Steffen Altmann
Christian Traxler
Nudges at the Dentist
We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 19-38)
D03, I11, C93
6698 Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Arthur van Soest
Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the ...
(published as 'Partners’ Leisure Time Truly Together Upon Retirement' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, June 2016)
D13, J22, J14, C1
6697 Cristina Borra
Maria Iacovou
Almudena Sevilla
The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children's Cognitive and Noncognitive Development
This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children's cognitive and noncognitive development. We find that breastfeeding for four ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19(4), 496-515.)
I10, J0
6696 Annabelle Krause-Pilatus
Ulf Rinne
Simone Schüller
Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap ...
(revised version published in: International Migration Review, 2015, 49 (3), 757–789)
J15, J24, I21
6695 Pernilla Andersson Joona
Nabanita Datta Gupta
Eskil Wadensjö
Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:9)
J61, I21, J24, J31, F22
6694 Aimee Chin
N. Meltem Daysal
Scott A. Imberman
Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas
Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 107, 63-78)
I21, J24
6693 Pia M. Orrenius
Madeline Zavodny
Immigrants in Risky Occupations
This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), The International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, 214-226)
J15, J61, J81
6692 Xavier de Luna
Per Johansson
Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When ...
(published as 'Testing for the Unconfoundedness Assumption Using an Instrumental Assumption' in: Journal of Causal Inference, 2014, 2, 187-199)
C26, C52
6691 Stefan Eriksson
Per Johansson
Sophie Langenskiöld
What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process
We study the recruitment behavior of Swedish employers using data from a stated choice experiment. In the experiment, the employers are first asked to describe an employee who recently and ...
(published in: Emperical Economics, 2017, 53, 803 - 826)
J71
6690 Sebastian Till Braun
Michael Kvasnicka
Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (2), 253-269)
J61, J21, C36, N34
6689 Dirk Bethmann
Michael Kvasnicka
A Theory of Child Adoption
Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Development, 2022, 47 (2), 101-114)
J12, J13, D02
6688 Jérôme Adda
Francesca Cornaglia
Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply
This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103(7), 3102-3114)
D12, H25, I12
6685 Wolfgang Dauth
Sebastian Findeisen
Jens Suedekum
The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988–2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1643-1675)
F16, J31, R11
6684 Nick Drydakis
Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market: Distastes or Uncertainty?
Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(5), 720–744)
C93, J7, J82
6683 Anders Böhlmark
Mikael Lindahl
Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82(327), 508-551)
I2, H4
6681 Gordon B. Dahl
Katrine Vellesen Loken
Magne Mogstad
Peer Effects in Program Participation
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2049-2074)
D62, J13, I38
6680 Susan L. Averett
Yang Wang
The Effects of EITC Payment Expansion on Maternal Smoking
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels were changed significantly based on the number of children in the family such that ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (11), 1344-1359)
I12, I38
6679 Ugo Colombino
Equilibrium Simulation with Microeconometric Models: A New Procedure with an Application to Income Support Policies
Many microeconometric models of discrete labour supply include alternative-specific constants meant to account for (possibly besides other factors) the density or accessibility of particular types of ...
(substantially revised version published as 'A new equilibrium simulation procedure with discrete choice models' in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2013, 6 (3), 25-49)
C35, C53, H31, J22
6678 Hani Mansour
Terra McKinnish
Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses? Earnings, Ability and Appearance
In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 577-580)
J12, J16
6676 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Kusum Mundra
Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain
Because of the many advantages of homeownership for immigrants and for the communities where immigrants reside, a variety of countries have implemented policies that facilitate immigrant ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, Special Issue: Migration and Culture, 2013, 21(2), 204-218.)
R21, J61
6675 David W. Johnston
Wang-Sheng Lee
Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility, accountability and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 32-54)
I0, I31, J62
6674 Karina Doorley
Eva Sierminska
Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 129, 29–34 )
D31, J24, J30, J70
6673 Karen A. Mumford
Peter N. Smith
Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace
We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2015, 83 (3), 307 -313 )
J3, J7, J28
6672 Xavier Ramos
Dirk Van de gaer
Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 30(5), 855-883)
D3, D63
6670 Christoph Ehlert
Jochen Kluve
Sandra Schaffner
Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (2), 765-773)
J08, J68
6669 Stephane Bonhomme
Laura Hospido
The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data
We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from social security records to document the evolution of earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1244–1278)
D31, J21, J31
6668 Yu Chen
Kenneth D. Gibb
Chris Leishman
Robert E. Wright
The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach
This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (5), 523 - 542)
J1, R2
6664 J. William Ambrosini
Karin Mayr
Giovanni Peri
Dragos Radu
The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania: Evidence and Long-Run Implications
This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2015, 34 (4), 753 - 793)
F22, J61, O15
6663 Andrew Seltzer
The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers: Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 66, 4 (2013), 1039–1062.)
N3, J3
6662 Martyn J. Andrews
Leonard Gill
Thorsten Schank
Richard Upward
High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 824-827)
J20, J30, C23
6661 Caitlin Knowles Myers
Power of the Pill or Power of Abortion? Re-Examining the Effects of Young Women's Access to Reproductive Control
Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (6), 2178–2224)
I18, J12, J13
6659 Kasey Buckles
Ofer Malamud
Melinda Sandler Morrill
Abigail Wozniak
The Effect of College Education on Health
We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 99-114.)
I12, I23, J24
6658 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Katalin Evers
Lutz Bellmann
Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Evidence from the Orientation of Uncovered Employers
It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set ...
(revised version published as 'Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Alignment from Without in Germany' in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55, 415-443)
J31, J5
6656 David W. Johnston
Stefanie Schurer
Michael A. Shields
Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (3), 631-659)
J62
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