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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
15772 Michele Battisti
Christian Dustmann
Uta Schönberg
Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers
This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1551–1594)
J23, J24, O33
15771 Thomas J. Kniesner
W. Kip Viscusi
Promoting Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs
The impact and economic merits of President Biden's Executive Order 13985 on equity depend on how the executive order is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2023, 14 (1), 8-34)
D61, D63, I18
15770 Kevin Pineda-Hernández
François Rycx
Mélanie Volral
Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 01 February 2025)
J15, J16, J21, J24, J31, J61
15766 Peng Nie
Xu Peng
Tianyuan Luo
Internet Use and Fertility Behavior among Reproductive-Age Women in China
Using longitudinal data from the 2014–2018 China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of internet use (IU) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 77, 101903)
D13, D91, J13, J16, R20
15763 Thomas Dohmen
Simone Quercia
Jana Willrodt
On the Psychology of the Relation between Optimism and Risk Taking
In this paper, we provide an explanation for why risk taking is related to optimism. Using a laboratory experiment, we show that the degree of optimism predicts whether people tend to focus on the ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2023, 67, 193–214. )
D91, C91, D81, D01
15762 Erling Barth
Alex Bryson
Harald Dale-Olsen
Creative Disruption: Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment ...
(forthcoming in: Economica)
D22, D24, F14, L11, L60
15760 Pavel Chakraborty
Rahul Singh
Vidhya Soundararajan
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (4), 741–771, )
F14, F16, O17, O47, F66
15758 Gopi Shah Goda
Matthew R. Levy
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner
Joshua Tasoff
Jiusi Xiao
Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability?
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how a web-based retirement saving calculator affects workers' retirement-savings decisions. In both conditions, the calculator projects workers' ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 214, 561-573)
D14, G53, J32
15755 Mason Ameri
Douglas L. Kruse
So Ri Park
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Lisa Schur
Telework during the Pandemic: Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Telework has benefits for many people with disabilities. The pandemic may create new employment opportunities for people with disabilities by increasing employer acceptance of telework, but this ...
(published in: Disability and Health Journal, 2023, 16 (2), 101406)
J14, J22, J71
15753 Kaveh Majlesi
Silvia Prina
Paul Sullivan
Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes
The effect of negative shifts in public opinion on the economic lives of minorities is unknown. We study the role of racial bias in the U.S. labor market by investigating sudden changes in public ...
(published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2024, 8, 1493–1505 )
D70, D91, J15, P16
15752 Maciej Albinowski
Piotr Lewandowski
The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102481)
J24, O33, J23
15751 Masato Oikawa
Ryuichi Tanaka
Shun-ichiro Bessho
Akira Kawamura
Haruko Noguchi
Do Class Closures Affect Students' Achievements? Heterogeneous Effects of Students' Socioeconomic Backgrounds
This paper examines how class closures affect the academic achievements of Japanese students in primary and middle schools, with a special focus on the heterogeneous effects of the socioeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, vol.78, Article 101387, December (2025))
I20, I24
15749 Geghetsik Afunts
Štepán Jurajda
Who Divorces Whom: Unilateral Divorce Legislation and the Educational Structure of Marriage
There is evidence that the introduction of unilateral divorce legislation (UDL) starting in the late 1960s increased US divorce rates. We ask whether making divorce easier affected the educational ...
(published in: Demography, 2024, 61 (4), 1097–1116.)
J12
15748 Rais Kamis
Jessica Pan
Kelvin Seah
Do College Admissions Criteria Matter? Evidence from Discretionary vs. Grade-Based Admission Policies
This paper examines the implications of college admissions criteria on students' academic and non-academic performance in university and their labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique feature of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 92, 102347)
I21, I23, J31
15744 V. K. Chetty
James J. Heckman
Internal Adjustment Costs of Firm-Specific Factors and the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm
This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by ...
(published in: Kumbhakar, S.C., Sickles, R.C., Wang, H.J. (eds), Advances in Applied Econometrics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, Springer, Cham, 2024, 55, 239 - 258 )
D21, L11, E13
15742 Plamen Nikolov
Md Shahadath Hossain
Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617)
H55, J24, I31, O12, J26, J14, H75
15741 Joan Costa-Font
Sarah Flèche
Ricardo Pagan
The Labour Market Returns to Sleep
The proportion of people sleeping less than the daily-recommended hours has increased. Yet, we know little about the labour market returns to sleep. We use longitudinal data from Germany and exploit ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 93, 102840)
I18, J12, J13
15739 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Lea-Rachel Kosnik
Aging in Style: Does How We Write Matter?
The scholarly impact of academic research matters for academic promotions, influence, relevance to public policy, and others. Focusing on writing style in top-level professional journals, we examine ...
(published as 'Aging in style: Seniority and sentiment in scholarly writing' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2024, 90 (4), 1136-1164)
B41, A14
15737 Alexandros Theloudis
Jorge Velilla
Pierre-André Chiappori
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Commitment and the Dynamics of Household Labor Supply
The extent to which individuals commit to their partner for life has important implications. This paper develops a lifecycle collective model of the household, through which it characterizes behavior ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (665), 354-386)
D12, D13, D15, J22, J31
15736 Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Lucia Mýtna Kureková
The Impact of Immigration and Integration Policies On Immigrant-Native Labor Market Hierarchies
Across European Union (EU) labor markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labor market outcomes, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (16), 4169–4187)
J15, J18, J61, K37
15732 Wendelin Schnedler
The Broken Chain: Evidence against Emotionally Driven Upstream Indirect Reciprocity
Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document that subjects indeed ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2022, 136, 542-558)
D91, C91, D03
15731 Fabio Montobbio
Jacopo Staccioli
Maria Enrica Virgillito
Marco Vivarelli
The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (5), 1622-1655)
O33
15730 Andreas Steinmayr
Manuel Rossi
Vaccine-Skeptic Physicians and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
What is the role of general practitioners (GPs) in supporting or hindering public health efforts? We investigate the influence of vaccine-skeptic GPs on their patients' decisions to get a COVID-19 ...
(published as 'Vaccine-skeptic physicians and patient vaccination decisions' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (3), 509-525)
I12, I18
15728 Esther Arenas-Arroyo
Daniel Fernández-Kranz
Natalia Nollenberger
High Speed Internet and the Widening Gender Gap in Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Hospital Records
Increases in mental health problems among adolescents have been concurrent with increased use of digital media, with bigger changes among girls after the mid-2010s. This study exploits exogenous ...
(This version: May 2023)
J13, J16, I10, I12, I18, H31, L86
15724 Sabien Dobbelaere
Grace McCormack
Daniel Prinz
Sandor Sovago
Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 235, 107036)
G34, J2, J3, M51
15722 Gianluca Orefice
Hillel Rapoport
Gianluca Santoni
How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity.
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 174, 103443)
F14, F16, F22, O47
15719 Alex Hollingsworth
Melissa A. Thomasson
Krzysztof Karbownik
Anthony Wray
The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality
The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114(7), 2201-2238.)
I14, J13, N32
15717 Simon Jäger
Jörg Heining
How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on ...
(revise and resubmit: American Economic Review)
J20, J30, J63
15716 Theodor Vladasel
Simon C. Parker
Randolph Sloof
Mirjam C. van Praag
Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises
Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2024, 33 (3), 630 - 651)
D22, J33, L21, L31
15715 Claudia Senik
Andrew E. Clark
Conchita D'Ambrosio
Anthony Lepinteur
Carsten Schröder
Teleworking and Life Satisfaction during COVID-19: The Importance of Family Structure
We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37 (1), Article 8)
I31, M5
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