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15612 Giorgio Brunello
Dimitris Christelis
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Anastasia Terskaya
Does College Selectivity Reduce Obesity? A Partial Identification Approach
We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to investigate whether the quality of tertiary education -measured by college selectivity- causally affects obesity ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2306-2320)
I14, I12, I26, C14
15609 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Damian Clarke
Analysis of Twins
The occurrence of twin births has been widely used as a natural experiment. With a focus upon the use of twin births for identification of causal effects in economics, this chapter provides a ...
(published in: Klaus. F. Zimmermann (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer Nature, 2023)
D10, I26, J13, J24
15608 Irene Bertschek
Jörn Block
Alexander S. Kritikos
Caroline Stiel
German Financial State Aid during COVID-19 Pandemic: Higher Impact among Digitalized Self-Employed
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2024, 36 (1–2), 76–97)
C14, H43, L25, L26, J68, O33
15606 Luis R. Martinez
Jonas Jessen
Guo Xu
A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany
This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 68-106)
F51, H10, N44, P20
15605 Magnus Henrekson
Dan Johansson
Johan Karlsson
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory
Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterian growth theorists relate to the ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2024, 48 (1), 104–140)
B40, O10, O30
15604 Rigissa Megalokonomou
Yi Zhang
How Good Am I? Effects and Mechanisms behind Salient Ranks
How can individuals respond to their ordinal ranking when they are not aware of it? We present evidence on the effects and mechanisms of achievement rank effects in middle schools when ranks are ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104870)
I21, J24
15602 Francisco Cabrera-Hernández
María Padilla-Romo
Cecilia Peluffo
Full-Time Schools and Educational Trajectories: Evidence from High-Stakes Exams
This paper estimates the effects of extending the school day during elementary school on students' education outcomes later in life. We do so in the context of Mexico City's metropolitan area, where ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 96, 102443)
I21, I25, J01
15601 Tito Boeri
Pierre Cahuc
Labor Market Insurance Policies in the XXI Century
The recovery from the Covid-19 crisis will force governments to accelerate transformation in their menu of labor market policy tools. The crisis was a stress test for unemployment insurance schemes ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2023, 15 (1), 1-22)
H5, J6
15597 Emily A. Beam
Social Media as a Recruitment and Data Collection Tool: Experimental Evidence on the Relative Effectiveness of Web Surveys and Chatbots
Online technologies enable lower-cost, rapid data collection, but concerns about access and data quality impede their use in global research. I conduct a randomized experiment in the Philippines to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 162, 103069)
C81, C83, C93, O15, I21
15595 Lara Bohnet
Susana Peralta
João Pereira dos Santos
Cousins from Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock
We study the labour market impact of the return of half a million Portuguese due to onset of the colonial war in 1974. Both the size and similarity with the native population (almost 80% were ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025, 172, 104925)
F22, J20, R23
15594 G.Jacob Blackwood
Cindy Cunningham
Matt Dey
Lucia Foster
Cheryl Grim
John C. Haltiwanger
Rachel Nesbit
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
Jay Stewart
Cody Tuttle
Zoltan Wolf
Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion
An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been ...
(published in: Susanto Basu, Lucy Eldridge, John Haltiwanger, and Erich Strassner (eds.), Technology, Productivity and Economic Growth, University of Chicago Press, 2025)
D24, J24, J31, L60
15590 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Andrea Robbett
Measuring Socially Appropriate Social Preferences
We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2024, 147, 517 - 532)
C91, D01, D91, D63, D30, C49
15589 Nicolas Lagios
Pierre-Guillaume Meon
Ilan Tojerow
Is Demonstrating against the Far Right Worth It? Evidence from French Presidential Elections
We study the electoral impact of protesting against the far right by investigating the demonstrations held during the 2002 French presidential elections against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen. ...
(published as 'Media, Spillovers and Social Norms: The Electoral Impact of Anti-Far-Right Protests in the 2002 French Election' in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (669), 1575–1608,)
D72
15587 Fenet Jima Bedaso
Uwe Jirjahn
Laszlo Goerke
Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?
We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism ...
(revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (2), 262-292 (authored by Fenet Jima Bedaso and Uwe Jirjahn))
J15, J52, J61
15586 Abel Brodeur
Nikolai Cook
Carina Neisser
P-Hacking, Data Type and Data-Sharing Policy
In this paper, we examine the relationship between p-hacking and data-sharing policies for published articles. We collect 38,876 test statistics from 1,106 articles published in leading economic ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (659), 985-1018)
A11, B41, C13, C40, I23
15585 Gozde Corekcioglu
Marco Francesconi
Astrid Kunze
Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 169, 104845)
H42, J13, J16, J18, M12, M14
15582 Lisa Marie Timm
Massimo Giuliodori
Paul Muller
Tax Incentives for High Skilled Migrants: Evidence from a Preferential Tax Scheme in the Netherlands
This paper examines to what extent an income tax exemption affects international mobility and wages of skilled immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which ...
(published as 'Tax Incentives for Migrants With Mid-Level Earnings: Evidence From the Netherlands' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2025, 17 (3), 42–79)
F22, J61, H24, H31
15581 Juan Pablo Rud
Michael Simmons
Gerhard Toews
Fernando Aragon
Job Displacement Costs of Phasing Out Coal
The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 236, 105167)
labor displacement, energy transition, coal mines
15578 Arnab K. Basu
Ralitza Dimova
Monnet Benoit Patrick Gbakou
Romane Viennet
Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses - elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d'Ivoire – on ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2023, 102, 101957)
C93, J43, O55
15576 Roland Benabou
Ania Jaroszewicz
George Loewenstein
It Hurts to Ask
We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2025,171, 104911)
D03, D23, D64, D82, D83, D91
15573 Jorge Luis García
James J. Heckman
Three Criteria for Evaluating Social Programs
This paper examines the economic foundations of three criteria used for evaluating the costs and benefits of social programs. Some criteria do not consider the scale of programs or address the costs ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2022, 13 (3), 281 - 286)
D61
15572 Lucía Echeverría
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto Molina
Active Commuting and the Health of Workers
Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by ...
(published in: Journal of Transport & Health, 2023, 31, 101626)
R40, I10, J22
15571 Jonas Jessen
Culture, Children and Couple Gender Inequality
This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of East Germans who were socialised ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review 2022, 150, 104310)
J16, J22, D1
15570 Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño Ortín
Ömer Özak
Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions
This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (668), 1261–1299)
H77, P00, D70, D74, F02, F52, Z10
15567 Nick Drydakis
Anna Paraskevopoulou
Vasiliki Bozani
A Field Study of Age Discrimination in the Workplace: The Importance of Gender and Race. Pay the Gap
The study examines whether age intersects with gender and race during the initial stage of the hiring process and affects access to vacancies outcomes and wage sorting. In order to answer the ...
(published in: Employee Relations, 2023, 45 (2), 304-327)
C93, C9, J14, J1
15566 Cyprien Batut
Andrea Garnero
Alessandro Tondini
The Employment Effects of Working Time Reductions: Sector-Level Evidence from European Reforms
In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry-level data in European countries to study the economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and 2007. Our ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (1), 217 - 232)
J20, J30, J80
15563 Karla Cordova
Markus M. Grabka
Eva Sierminska
Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able to identify the extent to ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2022, 38, 755 - 810)
H55, D31, J16
15561 Isaac Gross
Andrew Leigh
Assessing Australian Monetary Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in which the cash rate is set according to an optimal simple rule. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2022, 98 (322), 271 - 295)
E47, E52, E58
15560 Sarah Cattan
Kjell G. Salvanes
Emma Tominey
First Generation Elite: The Role of School Networks
Intergenerational persistence in studying for elite education is high across the world. We study the role that exposure to high school peers from elite educated families ('elite peers') plays in ...
(forthcoming in: American Economic Review)
I24, J24, J62
15556 Seth Gershenson
Stephen B. Holt
Adam Tyner
Making the Grade: The Effect of Teacher Grading Standards on Student Outcomes
Teachers are among the most important inputs in the education production function. One mechanism by which teachers might affect student learning is through the grading standards they set for their ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2024, 42 (2): 305-318)
I2
15555 Patrick Lehnert
Michael Niederberger
Uschi Backes-Gellner
Eric Bettinger
Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery: Filling Data Gaps across Time and Space
This paper develops a novel procedure for proxying economic activity with day-time satellite imagery across time periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise ...
(published in: Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus , 2023, 2 (4), pgad099 )
E01, E23, O18, R11, R14
15554 Getinet Astatike Haile
Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). Our most conservative estimates ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2023, 61 (3), 653 - 673)
I31, J28, J5, L2, M5
15552 Viola Corradini
Lorenzo Lagos
Garima Sharma
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs
Why aren't workplaces better designed for women? We show that changing the priorities of those who set workplace policies can create female-friendly jobs. Starting in 2015, Brazil's largest trade ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025, 140 (3), 2053–2105)
J31, J33, J51, J52
15551 Richard Freund
Marta Favara
Catherine Porter
Jere R. Behrman
Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2024, 38 (2), 296 - 318)
J24, I2, I1
15550 Andreu Arenas
Caterina Calsamiglia
Gender Differences in High-Stakes Performance and College Admission Policies
We investigate the effect of increasing the weight of standardized high-stakes exams at the expense of high school grades for college admissions. Studying a policy change in Spain, we find a negative ...
(forthcoming in: Management Science, 2025.)
J16, I23, I24
15549 Chunbing Xing
Xiaoyan Yuan
Junfu Zhang
City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 97, 103834)
J31, R12, R23, O15
15548 Victoria Hunter Gibney
Kristine L. West
Seth Gershenson
Blurred Boundaries: A Day in the Life of a Teacher
The burnout, stress, and work-life balance challenges faced by teachers have received renewed interest due to the myriad disruptions and changes to K-12 schooling brought about by the COVID-19 ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2023, 51, 247-275)
I2, J22
15547 Chris M. Herbst
Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence
Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, 42 (1), 255-304)
H75, I24, I38, J24
15546 Randall K. Q. Akee
Donn. L. Feir
Marina Mileo Gorzig
Samuel Myers Jr
Native American 'Deaths of Despair' and Economic Conditions
Non-Hispanic whites who do not have a college degree have experienced an increase in "deaths of despair" – deaths caused by suicide, drug use, and alcohol use. Yet, deaths of despair are ...
(published in: Research in Social Stratification, 2024, 89, 100880)
I14, J15, J16
15545 Rania Gihleb
Osea Giuntella
Luca Stella
Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2022, 10 (4), 789-814)
A13, D64, J6, I31
15543 Stephen Kastoryano
Ben Vollaard
Nautical Patrol and Illegal Fishing Practices
We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023 122, 102881.)
D22, K42, Q22
15542 Billur Aksoy
Christopher S. Carpenter
Dario Sansone
Understanding Labor Market Discrimination against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey
Using a US nationally representative sample and a double list experiment designed to elicit views free from social desirability bias, we find that anti-transgender labor market attitudes are ...
(published in: Management Science, 2024, 71 (1), 659-677. )
C90, J15, J71, K31
15540 Cevat Giray Aksoy
José María Barrero
Nicholas Bloom
Steven J. Davis
Mathias Dolls
Pablo Zarate
Working from Home Around the World
The pandemic triggered a large, lasting shift to work from home (WFH). To study this shift, we survey full-time workers who finished primary school in 27 countries as of mid 2021 and early 2022. Our ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2022, 281–330 )
J2, D22, E24, L23
15538 Luca Paolo Merlino
Max F. Steinhardt
Liam Wren-Lewis
The Long Run Impact of Childhood Interracial Contact on Residential Segregation
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether interracial contact in childhood impacts the residential choices of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105242)
I29, J15, R23
15533 Osea Giuntella
Sally McManus
Redzo Mujcic
Andrew J. Oswald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Ahmed Tohamy
The Midlife Crisis
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced ...
(published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (357), 65 - 110)
I31, I14, I12
15530 Julie Moschion
Jan C. van Ours
Do Early Episodes of Depression and Anxiety Make Homelessness More Likely?
This paper studies the relationship between early mental health episodes and early homelessness, focusing on depression and anxiety amongst disadvantaged Australians. Using data from the Australian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 654-674)
I12, I32
15527 Marie C. Hull
What Divides the First and Second Generations? Family Time of Arrival and Educational Outcomes for Immigrant Youth
In this paper, I develop a measure of host country experience, which I call "relative time of arrival," to explore differences between first- and second-generation immigrants. This measure is finer ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2023, 89 (3), 754-787)
I24, J13, J15
15526 Vladimir Otrachshenko
Olga Popova
Milena Nikolova
Elena Tyurina
COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit: Opportunity Amidst Adversity
We theoretically and empirically examine how acquiring new skills and increased financial worries influenced entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze ...
(published in: Technology in Society, 2022, 71, 102093)
E24, J24, L26, P20
15523 Malte Baader
Simon Gächter
Kyeongtae Lee
Martin Sefton
Social Preferences and the Variability of Conditional Cooperation
We experimentally examine how the incentive to defect in a social dilemma affects conditional cooperation. In our first study we conduct online experiments in which subjects play eight Sequential ...
(revised version published online in: Economic Theory, 11 November 2024)
A13, C91
15520 Nils Braakmann
Arnaud Chevalier
Tanya Wilson
Expected Returns to Crime and Crime Location
We provide first evidence that temporal variations in the expected returns to crime affect the location of property crime. Our identification strategy relies on the widely-held perception in the UK ...
(published in: American Economic Journal : Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (4), 144 - 160)
K42, J19
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