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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5331 Marcos Chamon
Kai Liu
Eswar Prasad
Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177)
D91, J3, E21
5330 Tom McKenzie
Dirk Sliwka
Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742)
H42, H52, I22, M52
5329 Graziella Bertocchi
Arcangelo Dimico
Slavery, Education, and Inequality
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 197-209)
E02, D02, H52, J15, O11
5328 Fernando A. Lozano
Michael D. Steinberger
Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration
In this chapter we provide a brief overview of the main empirical tools used by economists to study international migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012)
F22
5327 Pedro Maia Gomes
Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom
This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.)
E24, J60
5326 Richard Akresh
Emilie Bagby
Damien de Walque
Harounan Kazianga
Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186)
O15, J12, I21, J13
5325 Wendelin Schnedler
Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this ...
(improved version is available here)
D86, M52, J33, D82, M41
5324 Tsunao Okumura
Emiko Usui
Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116)
J24, J62
5323 Julien Prat
Boyan Jovanovic
Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914)
D82, D83, E24, J41
5322 António Afonso
Pedro Maia Gomes
Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.)
E24, E62, H50
5321 Pedro Maia Gomes
Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public ...
(published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.)
E24, E32, E62, J31, J45
5320 Werner Eichhorst
Veronica Escudero
Paul Marx
Steven Tobin
The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline ...
(also available as: International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper 202. Geneva.)
J58, J65, J21
5319 Andreas Kuhn
The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of ...
(revised version, using updated and expanded data, published as `International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(1), 112-136)
D31, D63, J31
5318 James P. Smith
Yan Shen
John Strauss
Yang Zhe
Yaohui Zhao
The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61(1), 127-156)
H00
5316 Manan Roy
Daniel L. Millimet
Rusty Tchernis
Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, particularly among low income individuals, federal nutrition assistance programs have come under scrutiny. However, the vast majority of this ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (1), 1-38)
C31, H51, I18, I28
5315 Christian Grund
Johannes Martin
Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2012, 23 (17), 3536-3558)
M53
5314 Anna Dreber Almenberg
Christer Gerdes
Patrik Gränsmark
Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess
We explore the relationship between attractiveness and risk taking in chess. We use a large international panel dataset on chess competitions which includes a control for the players' skill in chess. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 1-18)
D03, J16
5312 Yves Zenou
Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 174 - 187)
D83, J61, O18, R14
5311 Steffen Habermalz
Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Research on employer learning has provided important insights into the dynamic process that determines individual wages, especially during the early part of a worker's career. However, the recent ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (2), 605-626)
D21, D22, J21, J24
5310 Luc Behaghel
David M. Blau
Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age
We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (4), 41-67)
J26
5309 Tor Eriksson
Nicolai Kristensen
Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and that the latter can be used as a sorting device by firms to attract and retain ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 899-928)
J32, J33, M52
5307 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Shachar Kariv
Andrew Schotter
Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a ...
(published in: Review of Economic Design, 2012, 16, 93 - 118)
D82, D83, C92
5306 Harley Frazis
Jay Stewart
How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction ...
(published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246)
C81, D13, C83
5305 Christian Schwarz
Jens Suedekum
Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (1), 123-139)
F12, D23, L23
5304 Eunho Choi
Almas Heshmati
Yongsung Cho
An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness
This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series ...
(published in: Korean Journal of Environmental Policy 2011, 10(4), 3-37.)
C32, F18, F43, N55, O13, Q56
5303 Sonja C. de New
Mathias Sinning
Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap
This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 335-361)
C21, J16, J31
5302 Matloob Piracha
Massimiliano Tani
Florin Vadean
Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1, Article 3)
C34, J24, J61
5300 Ernesto Reuben
Pedro Rey-Biel
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales
The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (1), 111-117)
J71, D03, C92
5299 Sebastian Fehrler
Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity ...
(preliminary study that led to IZA DP No. 7148)
C72, C92, H41
5297 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17 (1), 71-94)
N34, N44
5296 Robert Holzmann
Alain Jousten
Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing
The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme ...
(published in: Edward Palmer, Robert Holzmann and David Robalino, Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World: Volume 2, Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, World Bank, 2013, 277-304)
H55, H68, J21, J26
5295 Pedro Carneiro
Sokbae Lee
Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2309-2349)
J0
5294 Carlos Bozzoli
Climent Quintana-Domeque
The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (3), 550-562.)
I1, J1
5293 Wiji Arulampalam
Michael P. Devereux
Giorgia Maffini
The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1038-1054)
H22, H25, J50
5290 Federica Origo
Claudio Lucifora
The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and all indoor workplaces. Despite the ...
(published in: Forum for Health Economics and Policy, BE Press, 2013, 16(1), 1-27)
I18, J28
5289 Rémi Piatek
Pia Pinger
Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 734-755)
C31, J24, J31
5285 Werner Eichhorst
Regina Konle-Seidl
Alison Koslowski
Paul Marx
Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment
This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously ...
(published in: Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 281-296)
J41, J62
5284 Christian Grund
Matthias Kräkel
Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. ...
(revised version published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2012, 64, 101-124)
M52, J33
5283 Pedro S. Martins
Yong Yang
Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 664–691)
J31, J41, J50
5282 Helen Baker-Henningham
Florencia López Bóo
Early Childhood Stimulation Interventions in Developing Countries: A Comprehensive Literature Review
This report reviews the effectiveness of early childhood stimulation interventions in developing countries. The report aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young ...
(published as 'Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién' in: Económica, 2014, 60, 120-186)
J13, J18, J24
5280 Decio Coviello
Andrea Ichino
Nicola Persico
Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and ...
(published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part))
J0, K0, M5
5278 Peter Dolton
Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene
Jonathan Wadsworth
Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (1), 78-106)
J0, J2, J3
5277 Rory Coulter
Maarten van Ham
Peteke Feijten
A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour
Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (11), 2742-2760)
J61, R21, R23
5276 David de la Croix
Olivier Pierrard
Henri R. Sneessens
Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (1), 104-124)
E24, H55, J26, J64
5275 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman
Edward Vytlacil
Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2754-2781)
J31
5273 Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza
Fernando Rios-Avila
Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country
This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having ...
(published as 'The effect of intimate partner violence on labor market decisions: Evidence from a multi-ethnic country' in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44 (1), 75 - 92 )
J15, J71
5272 Kristin J. Kleinjans
Arthur van Soest
Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for ...
(published as 'Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (4), 567 - 585)
C81, D84
5271 David Manley
Maarten van Ham
Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives, Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 147-173 )
I30, J60, R23
5270 Rodrigo R. Soares
Igor Viveiros
Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP ...
(published in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2017, 17 (2), 29-63)
H11, K00, K42
5268 Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
Conny Wunsch
How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score
We investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observable covariates is required, ...
(published as 'The Performance of Estimators Based on the Propensity Score' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175 (1), 1-21)
C21
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