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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
15515 Andre Kurmann
Etienne Lalé
Lien Ta
Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-Time Data
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research using private-sector datasets to measure business dynamics and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 250, 105477)
E01, E24, E32, E60
15512 Simon Gächter
Chris Starmer
Fabio Tufano
Measuring 'Group Cohesion' to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (2), 539–554)
C92, D91
15511 Xi Chen
Early Life Circumstances and the Health of Older Adults: A Research Note
This paper reviews the latest evidence of the effects of early life circumstances on old-age health, distinguishing in utero exposures from childhood exposures to a wide range of environments. We ...
(published as 'The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University–Lancet Commission' in :The Lancet Commission Report, 2022, 400 (10367), P1967 - 2006 )
I14, J14, J13, I18
15510 William Cochrane
Jacques Poot
Matthew Roskruge
Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake: New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) ...
(published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2023, 29 (2), 155-184)
21, C45, C52, H53, R23
15509 Thushyanthan Baskaran
Zohal Hessami
Temurbek Khasanboev
Political Selection When Uncertainty Is High
Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2023, 145, 76 (2), 161-178)
D72, D78, H70, J13, J16
15506 Fidel Bennett
Veronica Escudero
Hannah Liepmann
Ana Podjanin
Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics
We assess whether online data on vacancies and applications to a job board are a suitable source for studying skills dynamics outside of Europe and the United States, where a rich literature has ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 35-99. )
C81, J24, O33, O54
15505 Maurizio Strazzeri
Chantal Oggenfuss
Stefan C. Wolter
Much Ado about Nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories
We estimate the impact of a large curriculum reform in Switzerland that substantially increased the share of foreign language classes in compulsory school on students' subsequent educational choices ...
(published as 'Early exposure to foreign language training and students’ educational trajectories' in: Economics of Education Review, 2025, 108, 102684 (with Enzo Brox))
I21, I24, I28
15501 Michela Ponzo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Famous after Death: The Effect of a Writer's Death on Book Sales
In the standard neoclassical model consumers use all the available information and the demand for goods depends exclusively on preferences and prices whereas other spurious information do not play ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 210, 210-225.)
D91, Z10, Z11, L82, M30, D12
15500 Simon Jäger
Shakked Noy
Benjamin Schoefer
The German Model of Industrial Relations: Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
We give an overview of the "German model" of industrial relations. We organize our review by focusing on the two pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36 (4), 53 - 80)
J5, J4
15499 John V. Winters
Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas
This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) and a two-way fixed effects regression model. I examine effects ...
(published in: Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (JAAEA), 2022, 1 (3), 254-269)
J20, J30, R10
15498 Donn. L. Feir
Rob Gillezeau
Maggie E. C. Jones
The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains
In the late nineteenth century, the North American bison was brought to the brink of extinction in just over a decade. We demonstrate that the loss of the bison had immediate, negative consequences ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1634–1670)
I15, J15, N31, N32, O10
15497 Jacob Nielsen Arendt
Christian Dustmann
Hyejin Ku
Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-arrival Policies in Denmark
Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 531-556)
J22, J24, J61
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