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The Rise of Age-Friendly Jobs
Daron Acemoglu, Nicolaj Søndergaard Mühlbach, Andrew J. Scott
In 1990, one in five U.S. workers were aged over 50 years whereas today it is one in three. One possible explanation for this is that occupations have become more accommodating to…
Optimal allocations to heterogeneous agents with an application to stimulus checks
Vegard M. Nygaard, Bent E. Sørensen, Fan Wang
A planner allocates discrete transfers of size to heterogeneous groups labeled and has CES preferences over the resulting outcomes, . We derive a closed-for…
Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon
Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness tha…
Business disruptions from social distancing
Miklós Koren, Rita Pető
Social distancing interventions can be effective against epidemics but are potentially detrimental for the economy. Businesses that rely heavily on face-to-face communication or cl…
Sorting on the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission Scandal
Anthony Strittmatter, Michael Lechner
The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock to the observable environmental quality of VW diesel vehicles. To investigate the ma…
Science Quality and the Value of Inventions
Felix Poege, Dietmar Harhoff, Fabian Gaessler +1
Despite decades of research, the relationship between the quality of science and the value of inventions has remained unclear. We present the result of a large-scale matching exerc…