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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
15495 Claudius Garten
Michal Myck
Monika Oczkowska
Homeownership and the Perception of Material Security in Old Age
Homeownership has been shown to be related to various aspects of well-being, although both the causal nature of this relationship and the possible channels behind it have been difficult to identify. ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2025, 57 (33), 4988 - 5000)
I31, J14, D84
15493 Martina Celidoni
Joan Costa-Font
Luca Salmasi
Too Healthy to Fall Sick? Longevity Expectations and Protective Health Behaviours during the First Wave of COVID-19
Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2022, 202, 733 - 745 )
I12, I18
15492 David Gill
Yaroslav Rosokha
Beliefs, Learning, and Personality in the Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
We aim to understand the role and evolution of beliefs in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma (IRPD). To do so, we elicit beliefs about the supergame strategies chosen by others. We find ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 259– 283)
C72, C73, C91, D91
15489 Yiran Han
Baris Yörük
Age-Based Health Insurance Coverage Policies and Mental Health
More than 18 percent of U.S. adults met the diagnostic criteria for a mental illness. Yet, many who could benefit from mental health care do not receive any treatment, mostly due to the inability to ...
(Published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2024, 37, 42)
I12, I13, I18
15486 Nicolas Gavoille
Mihails Hazans
Personality Traits, Remote Work and Productivity
The future of teleworking ultimately depends on its impact on workers' productivity and wellbeing, yet the effect of remote working on productivity is not well understood. This paper investigates the ...
(revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2025, 164 (3), https://doi.org/10.16995/ilr.18853)
J24, J32, J81
15485 Sascha O. Becker
Sharun Mukand
Ivan Yotzov
Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence
Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions of lives and haunting survivors. Economists and economic historians have recently made new contributions to ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2022, 86, 101471)
D74, F22, F51, N4, O15, R23
15484 Deepti Goel
J. V. Meenakshi
Zaeen De Souza
Did the Nation-Wide Implementation of e-FMS in MGNREGS Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence
This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's ...
(published as 'Did the nationwide implementation of electronic fund management in the Indian employment guarantee scheme result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence' in: Review of Development Economics, 2024, 28 (4), 1994-2013)
H53, H75, D73, D78, I38
15483 D’Wayne Bell
Jing Feng
John B. Holbein
Jonathan Smith
Do STEM Students Vote?
For decades, pundits, politicians, college administrators, and academics have lamented the dismal rates of civic engagement among students who enroll in courses and eventually major in science, ...
(published in: American Educational Research Journal, 2024, 61 (1), 48-73.)
I21, I23, D72
15479 Peng Nie
Qiaoge Li
Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on health care expenditures among Chinese adults aged 18+. Employing a methodology ...
(published as 'Does energy poverty increase health care expenditures in China?' in: Applied Economics, 2024, 13 (5), 4209-4235s, 2023)
I10, I11, I32, Q40, R21
15476 Abel Brodeur
Nikolai Cook
Jonathan S. Hartley
Anthony Heyes
Do Pre-registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly prominent in economics, with pre-registration and pre-analysis plans (PAPs) promoted as important in ensuring the credibility of findings. We ...
(published as 'Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias? Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement' in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2024. 2 (3), 527–561)
B41, C13, C40, C93
15474 Colin P. Green
John S. Heywood
Does Performance Pay Influence Hours of Work?
A large body of research links performance pay to poorer worker health. The exact mechanism generating this link remains in doubt. We examine a common suspect, that performance pay causes employees ...
(published as 'Performance pay, work hours and employee health in the UK' in: Labour Economics, 2023, 84, 102387)
J22, J33
15473 Ian Gregory-Smith
Alex Bryson
Rafael Gomez
Discrimination in a Rank Order Contest. Evidence from the NFL Draft
This paper examines discrimination in the NFL draft. The NFL is a favourable empirical setting to examine the role of skin colour because franchise selectors are required to make rank-order ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2023, 6, 215-231)
J15, J24
15472 Maddalena Ferranna
Lisa A. Robinson
Daniel Cadarette
Michael R. Eber
David E. Bloom
The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these ...
(published in: Risk Analysis, 2023, 43 (10), 2053-2068)
D61, H12, H43, I18
15471 Zhuoer Lin
Xi Chen
Long-Term Services and Supports and Disease Management among Older Chinese Adults in Different Stages of Cognitive Impairment
Rapid population aging elevates burden of chronic and non-communicable diseases among older adults. Despite the critical role of self-management in disease prevention and control, effective ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2022, 23, 100405. )
J14, I18, I38, D10, H41
15468 Nick Drydakis
Economic Recession, Parental Unemployment and Adolescents’ Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Greece
This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset ...
(published in: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2023, 23 (2), 275-298.)
E24, J13, I10, I14
15467 Alex Bryson
Paul Willman
How Should We Think About Employers' Associations?
We maintain that employer associations are a specific form of employer collusion that is overt, formal and labour market focused which encompasses but is by no means confined to collective ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (2), 193-205)
J50, J52
15465 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson
Jackson Spurling
The Wage Curve after the Great Recession
Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is ‘tight’ because unemployment rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is ...
(published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 653-668 )
J30, J20, J60, E24
15463 Paul Berbée
Sebastian Till Braun
Richard Franke
Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926–2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic ...
(published online in: Journal of Economic Growth, 10 October 2024)
N91, N92, O14, R12
15462 Corrado Giulietti
Michael Vlassopoulos
Yves Zenou
When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-up
We investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 156, 104463)
H51, I12
15459 Laszlo Goerke
Yue Huang
Job Satisfaction and Trade Union Membership in Germany
Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102238)
I31, J28, J51
15456 Massimiliano Bratti
Enrico Lippo
COVID-19 and the Gender Gap in University Student Performance
The gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been observed in many domains, such as labor market outcomes and mental health. One sector that was particularly disrupted by the pandemic was ...
(revised version published as: 'Effects of COVID-19 on Gender Gaps in Educational Outcomes of College Students in Italy' in: K. Couch (ed.), Handbook of Inequality and COVID-19, Edward Elgar, 2015, 365–381 )
I21, I23
15455 Sam Hoey
Thomas Peeters
Jan C. van Ours
The Impact of Absent Coworkers on Productivity in Teams
We study how workers in production teams are affected by the temporary absence and replacement of a coworker. When a substitute coworker is absent, the remaining coworkers produce less output per ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 83, 102400)
M50, M54, J24
15454 Lamont Bo Yu
Trang My Tran
Wang-Sheng Lee
Revitalising the Silk Road: Evidence from Railway Infrastructure Investments in Northwest China
China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102076)
O22, R11, R58
15453 Teresa Molina
Emiko Usui
Female Labor Market Opportunities and Gender Gaps in Aspirations
Aspirations and plans for the future can influence investments made today. Gender gaps in these views can perpetuate gender gaps in outcomes. In this paper, we explore how gender gaps in aspirations ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 211, 165-187)
J16, I24, J13
15451 John V. Winters
No Place like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science
Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education ...
(published in: Review of Regional Studies, 2022, 52, 159–175)
R10, R23, J61
15450 Dolores Collado
Ignacio Ortuño Ortín
Jan Stuhler
Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90 (3), 1195 - 1227)
J62
15449 Saten Kumar
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Olivier Coibion
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Firm Decisions
Using a new survey of firms in New Zealand, we document how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by firms affects their economic decisions. We use randomized information ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2023, 91 (4), 1297-1332)
E3, E4, E5
15448 Olivier Deschenes
The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022, 55 (3), 1227-1249)
I1, Q4, Q5, Q54
15445 Robert W. Fairlie
Frank M. Fossen
Reid Johnsen
Gentian Droboniku
Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 1613-1629)
L26, H25, I18
15444 Uwe Jirjahn
Thi Xuan Thu Le
Political Spillovers of Workplace Democracy in Germany
While works councils provide a highly developed mechanism to promote workplace democracy, research on their consequences has been dominated by economic aspects. This study brings a new perspective to ...
(revised version published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2024, 95 (1), 5-31)
J51, J52, J53, J58
15441 Gabriel Chodick
Yoav Goldstein
Ity Shurtz
Dan Zeltzer
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
We examine how physician decisions are impacted by difficult cases—encounters with newly diagnosed cancer patients. Using detailed administrative data, we compare primary care physicians' decisions ...
(published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 15 March 2023)
I1, D91
15440 Emanuele Brancati
Michele Di Maio
Aminur Rahman
Finance, Informal Competition, and Expectations: A Firm-Level Analysis
This paper documents the link between finance and informal competition. Using longitudinal firm-level data, we show that formal firms that are more exposed to the competition of informal firms are ...
(published in: World Development, 2024, 173, 106408)
O16, E26, D84, D22
15439 Bart Cockx
Koen Declercq
Muriel Dejemeppe
Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 95, 102424)
H52, I21, I26, I28, J08, J18, J24, J65, J68
15438 Marco Lambrecht
Eugenio Proto
Aldo Rustichini
Andis Sofianos
Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
We investigate in a laboratory setting whether revealing information on the intelligence of both players affects behavior in repeated games. We study the Prisoners' Dilemma (PD) and Battle of Sexes ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2024, 16 (3), 199–231)
C73, C91, C92, D83
15436 Sulagna Mookerjee
John D. Pedersen
David Slichter
Time Use and the Geography of Economic Opportunity
The community in which a child is raised has a substantial effect on their income in adulthood. To help understand what is different about communities which produce higher incomes, we document how ...
(published in: Hamermesh, D.S. and Polachek, S.W. (eds.), Time Use in Economics (Research in Labor Economics, 51), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, 2023, 89-104)
D13, J22, J24, J62
15435 Greta Morando
Lucinda Platt
The Impact of Centre-Based Childcare on Non-cognitive Skills of Young Children
The early development of non-cognitive skills has longlasting benefits for children's sub- sequent educational attainment and wages. Drawing on a rich, nationally representative longitudinal sample ...
(published in: Economica, 2022, 356, 908-946)
J13, J24, I21, I24
15433 Matteo Picchio
Michele Ubaldi
Unemployment and Health: A Meta-Analysis
This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 study results coming from 65 articles published in peer-reviewed journals between ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024, 38 (4), 1437-1472)
C52, I10, I12, J64
15428 David L. Dickinson
Political Ideology, Mood Response, and the Confirmation Bias
The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive discomfort. Hearing rival viewpoints or belief-opposing information creates ...
(published as 'Political ideology, emotion response, and confirmation bias' in: Economic Inquiry, 2025, 63 (1), 181-205)
C91, D91, D89
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