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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
15827 Hai-Anh H Dang
Peter F. Lanjouw
Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 85 (3), 599-622.)
C53, D31, I32, O15
15826 Sarah Frohnweiler
Bernd Beber
Cara Ebert
Information Frictions, Belief Updating and Internal Migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda
Information frictions about the benefits of migration can lead to inefficient migration choices. We study the effects of a randomly assigned information treatment about regional income differentials ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2024, 171, 103311)
J31, J68, O15
15822 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Sanchari Roy
The Gendered Crisis: Livelihoods and Mental Well-Being in India during COVID-19
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2023, 29 (3), 40–74. )
J16, J22, J23
15821 Umair Ali
Jessica H. Brown
Chris M. Herbst
Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement: How Secure Is the Child Care Market?
Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 233, 105101)
J13, J15, J21, K39
15818 Alan Sanchez
Marta Favara
Margaret Sheridan
Jere R. Behrman
How Early Nutrition and Foundational Cognitive Skills Interconnect? Evidence from Two Developing Countries
While the long-term consequences of early stunting on educational attainment and on school achievement tests are well-known, there is scarce evidence about the specific mechanisms through which early ...
(published as 'Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries' in: World Development, 2024, 176, 106480)
I15, I25, J24
15816 Alexander Libman
Olga Popova
Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution
The paper looks at the persistence of egalitarian norms in post-Communist societies by focusing on the former members of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their ...
(revised version published in: Eastern European Economics, 2023, 61 (3), 199-237)
D31, I30, N00, P36, P52
15815 Badi H. Baltagi
Georges Bresson
Anoop Chaturvedi
Guy Lacroix
Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination: An Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change
This paper extends the Baltagi et al. (2018, 2021) static and dynamic ?-contamination papers to dynamic space-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 2475–2509)
C11, C23, C26, Q15, Q54
15813 Shuguang Jiang
Marie Claire Villeval
Dishonesty as a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma
We study cheating as a collective-risk social dilemma in a group setting in which individuals are asked to report their actual outcomes. Misreporting their outcomes increases the individual's ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 62, 223–241. )
C92, D01, D91, D62, H41
15810 Thomas Breda
Luke Haywood
Haomin Wang
Equilibrium Effects of Payroll Tax Reductions and Optimal Policy Design
Recent empirical literature documents that targeted tax reductions or minimum wages can have unintended reallocation and spillover effects on workers not directly targeted by these policies. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646)
J64, E24, H24, J38
15809 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Worker Satisfaction and Worker Representation: The Jury Is Still Out
This paper investigates the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation, to include works councils as well as local union agencies. The paper marks a clear shift away ...
(published as 'Job satisfaction and workplace representation in Europe' in: Manchester School, 2025, 92 (2), 123-148)
I31, J28, J52, J53
15807 Mahmut Ablay
Fabian Lange
Approaches to Learn about Employer Learning
The empirical literature on employer learning assumes that employers learn about unobserved ability differences across workers as they spend time in the labor market. This article describes testable ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2023, 56 (2), 343-356)
E24, J31
15806 Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi
Daniel Sgroi
A Field Study of Donor Behaviour in the Iranian Kidney Market
Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor behaviour in this unusual market. Participants have lower risk tolerance and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104887)
I11, I12, I18, C93, D03
15804 Marta Golin
Alessio Romarri
Broadband Internet and Attitudes Towards Migrants: Evidence from Spain
In this paper, we empirically evaluate the effect of exposure to broadband Internet on attitudes towards immigrants. We combine innovative survey data from Spain with information on the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 85, 102579)
D72, D83, J15
15803 Charles Courtemanche
Jordan Jones
Antonios M. Koumpias
Daniela Zapata
Revisiting the Connection between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 91 (1), 187-212)
I13, I18, I38
15802 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo
Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations
This article reviews evidence on the labor market performance of Hispanics in the United States, with a particular focus on the US-born segment of this population. After discussing critical issues ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (1), 169–198)
J15, J31, I24
15801 Effrosyni Adamopoulou
Luis Díez-Catalán
Ernesto Villanueva
Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions
This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of major recessions over the last 30 years in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from ...
(published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 24 September 2025, 103830)
J23, J31, J50
15800 Francesca Calamunci
Jakub Lonsky
Highway to Hell? Interstate Highway System and Crime
The United States witnessed an unprecedented crime wave in the second half of the twentieth century, with the total index crime rate more than tripling between 1960-1980. Little is known about the ...
(updated version published as 'The Road to Crime: An Unintended Consequence of the Interstate Highway System' in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (667), 748–772)
H54, K42, O18
15799 Daniel J. Henderson
Stefan Sperlich
A Complete Framework for Model-Free Difference-in-Differences Estimation
We propose a complete framework for model-free difference-in-differences analysis with covariates, where model-free means data-driven, in particular nonparametric estimation and testing, variable and ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Econometrics, 2023, 12 (3), 232-323)
C14, A2
15798 Giorgia Menta
Anthony Lepinteur
Andrew E. Clark
Simone Ghislandi
Conchita D'Ambrosio
Maternal Genetic Risk for Depression and Child Human Capital
We here address the causal relationship between the maternal genetic risk for depression and child human capital using UK birth-cohort data. We find that an increase of one standard deviation (SD) in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 87, 102718)
I14, J24
15797 Tomi Kyyrä
Juha Tuomala
The Effects of Employers' Disability and Unemployment Insurance Costs on Benefit Inflows
In Finland, large firms are partially liable for the costs of disability and unemployment benefits paid to their former workers. To estimate the effects of such costs, we exploit a reform that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102434)
J14, J26, H32
15795 Huasheng Xiang
Viviana Albani
Louis Goffe
Nasima Akhter
Amelia Lake
Heather Brown
Does Using Planning Policy to Restrict Fast Food Outlets Reduce Inequalities in Childhood Overweight and Obesity?
Half of local governments in England use planning policy to promote a healthier environment. In 2015, Gateshead Council in the North-East of England was the first local authority to ban planning ...
(published as 'Planning policies to restrict fast food and inequalities in child weight in England: a quasi-experimental analysis' in: Obesity, 2024, 32 (12), 2345-2353)
I18, J13, I14
15793 Marco Caliendo
Alexander S. Kritikos
Claudia Stier
The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 61, 869-889.)
L26, C14
15792 Aflatun Kaeser
Massimiliano Tani
Do Immigrants Ever Oppose Immigration?
This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of ...
(publishled in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 80, 102460)
D1, D89, D90, F22, J15
15790 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Wellbeing Rankings
Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 countries, the 50 states of the United States and the District of Colombia on ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2024, 171, 513–565 )
I31, O57
15789 Julia Bredtmann
Sebastian Otten
Culture and the Labor Supply of Female Immigrants
This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61 (2), 282-300)
J16, J22, J61
15787 Tomasz Gajderowicz
Maciej Jakubowski
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Sylwia Wrona
Capturing the Educational and Economic Impacts of School Closures in Poland
The effect of school closures in the spring of 2020 on the math, science, and reading skills of secondary school students in Poland is estimated. The COVID-19-induced school closures lasted 26 weeks ...
(published as 'Poland: Education During and After COVID-19 Pandemic and Educational Reforms' in: Crato, N., Patrinos, H.A. (eds), Improving National Education Systems After COVID-19. Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices. Springer, Cham, 2025, 121–133 (without H. A. Patrinos and S. Wrona).)
I21, I24
15786 Christina Gathmann
Julio Garbers
Citizenship and Integration
Several European countries have reformed their citizenship policies over the past decades. There is much to learn from their experience of how citizenship works; for whom it works; and what rules and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102343)
J15, J2, J31, J61, K37
15779 Fernando Alexandre
Miguel Chaves
Miguel Portela
Investment Grants and Firms' Productivity: How Effective Is a Grant Booster Shot?
This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression Discontinuity Design strategy using a very rich firm-level administrative ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2025, 64, 1601–1641)
D22, H25, L25, L52
15777 Dora Gicheva
Julie Edmunds
Marie C. Hull
Beth Thrift
Getting Students to Stick Around: The Effects of Completing an Introductory Course on Persistence for Community College Students
This paper studies the impacts of withdrawing from and failing a course, relative to successful completion, on persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy,2025, 43 (3), 427-451)
I21, I23
15774 Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Social Networks and the Labour Market
This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks ...
(published online in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 16 September 2022)
J16, J41, J31, D82, D83, O12, O15
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