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4800 Joshua Angrist
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010, 24 (2), 3-30)
C01
4799 Olivier Charlot
Franck Malherbet
Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection
This paper studies the impact of an European-like labor market regulation on the return to schooling, equilibrium unemployment and welfare. We show that firing costs and temporary employment have ...
(published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23)
I20, J20, J60
4798 Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau
Jos van Ommeren
Labour Supply and Commuting
A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (1), 82-89)
J22, R41
4797 Maarten van Ham
Allan M. Findlay
David Manley
Peteke Feijten
Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour ...
(published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171)
J24, J61, J62, R23
4796 Pierre Koning
Dinand Webbink
Nicholas G. Martin
The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48 (4), 1479-1497)
C41, I21
4795 Axel Ockenfels
Dirk Sliwka
Peter Werner
Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus ...
(published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (7), 1496-1513)
D03, M52
4793 Christer Gerdes
Patrik Gränsmark
Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775)
J16, J70, J71, D03
4791 Anders Frederiksen
Odile Poulsen
Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
J3, J6, M5
4790 Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331)
J68, C14, H43
4789 John Micklewright
Sylke V. Schnepf
Chris Skinner
Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with ...
(revised version published as 'Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 915-938)
C83, I21
4788 Christer Gerdes
Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 50, 645-666)
H7, I28, J15, J78, R5
4787 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Joachim R. Frick
Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442)
D31, I10, I12
4786 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Monika Schnitzer
Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(5), 1115-1152)
O3, O16, F1, G3
4785 Ana Rute Cardoso
Paulo Guimaraes
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 479-494; cited in The Economist, February 2011)
A10, I20
4784 Almas Heshmati
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In ...
(published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590)
C33, C43, D24, O18, O47
4783 Matteo Picchio
Chiara Mussida
Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578)
C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
4782 Robert Dur
Arjan Non
Hein Roelfsema
Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686)
D86, J41, M51, M52, M54, M55
4781 Ugo Colombino
Marilena Locatelli
Edlira Narazani
Cathal O'Donoghue
Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and ...
(published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1))
C25, H24, H31, I38
4780 Gerard J. van den Berg
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Maarten Lindeboom
France Portrait
The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428)
I12, I10, J14, E32
4779 Arno Tausch
Almas Heshmati
Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and ...
(published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.)
J01, O52, O54, P50
4777 Simonetta Longhi
Job Competition and the Wage Curve
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620)
J31, R23
4775 Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique ...
(published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596)
I10, J10, J70
4774 David W. Johnston
Michael E. R. Nicholls
Manisha Shah
Michael A. Shields
Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860)
I12, J10
4773 Conny Wunsch
Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045)
J64, J65, J68, D82, D86
4772 Jonathan Haskel
Gavin Wallis
Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (2), 195-198)
O47, E22
4771 Olaf Hübler
Lukas Menkhoff
Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (1), 107-126)
J16, J44, G23
4770 Andreas Peichl
Nico Pestel
Hilmar Schneider
Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 118-141)
D31, D63, J11
4769 Rolf Aaberge
Magne Mogstad
Robust Inequality Comparisons
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371)
D31, D63
4768 Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities
This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 237-241)
J13, J16, J22
4767 Andrea Ichino
Loukas Karabarbounis
Enrico Moretti
The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69)
E24, J62, J68, P16
4766 Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660)
H83, J24, J3, J45
4765 Jan C. van Ours
Lenny Stoeldraijer
Age, Wage and Productivity
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and ...
(published as 'Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing' in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2) , 113-137)
J23, J31
4762 Solomon Polachek
Daria Sevastianova
Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388)
C2, O1, O47, O57, P47, P52
4761 Gulcin Gumus
Jungmin Lee
The ART of Life: IVF or Child Adoption?
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is ...
(revised version published as 'Alternative Paths to Parenthood: IVF or Child Adoption?' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (3), 802-820)
I11, J13, J18
4760 John T. Addison
Alex Bryson
Paulino Teixeira
André Pahnke
Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518)
J50, J51
4757 Pedro S. Martins
Gary Solon
Jonathan P. Thomas
Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle
In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (4), 36-55)
E24, J31, E32
4756 Stephan Meier
Charles Sprenger
Stability of Time Preferences
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic ...
(revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286)
C93, D01, D03, D11, D91
4755 Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Andrew J. Oswald
Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23)
D03, J24, C91
4754 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121-139)
C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
4752 Emmanuel Saez
Manos Matsaganis
Panos Tsakloglou
Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece
This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127 (1), 493-533)
J31, J22, H22
4751 Achim Schmillen
Joachim Möller
Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span ...
(published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47)
J64, J24
4750 Marco Caliendo
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Arne Uhlendorff
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 88-103, Supplementary Appendix available)
J64
4749 Elliott Fan
Xin Meng
Zhichao Wei
Guochang Zhao
Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2018, 120 (4), 1011-1042.)
I21, I28, J24
4748 Wang-Sheng Lee
Sandy Suardi
Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool
The time-series approach used in the minimum wage literature essentially aims to estimate a treatment effect of increasing the minimum wage. In this paper, we employ a novel approach based on ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49, s376 - s401)
C22, J3
4747 Alberto Alesina
Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc
Paola Giuliano
Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers to be efficient. Otherwise, firms can take advantage of the immobility of workers and extract monopsony rents. In cultures with strong ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630)
E0, P16, Z10, Z13
4746 Danila Serra
Pieter Serneels
Abigail Barr
Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also ...
(published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 309-314)
C93, I11, J24
4745 Jennifer Hunt
Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 417-457)
J61, J24
4743 Oliver Falck
Stephan Heblich
Alfred Lameli
Jens Suedekum
Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239)
R23, Z10, J61
4742 Alexander M. Danzer
Firat Yaman
Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165)
J61, R23, F22
4741 Leo Kaas
Christian Manger
Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13 (1), 1-20)
C93, J71
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