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Long-term Health and Human Capital Effects of Early-Life Economic Conditions
Ruijun Hou, Samuel Baker, Stephanie von Hinke +3
We study the long-term health and human capital impacts of local economic conditions experienced during the first 1,000 days of life. We combine historical data on monthly unemploy…
Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It
Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthoeft +1
Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that workers' cognitive skills start declining by their thirties if not earlier. If accurate, such age-driven skill losses pose a major t…
Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Andrea Albanese, Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe
We use regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences methods to estimate the impact of a one-time hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths in Belgium durin…
A General Revealed Preference Test for Quasilinear Preferences: Theory and Experiments
Mikhail Freer, Marco Castillo
We provide a generalized revealed preference test for quasilinear preferences. The test applies to nonlinear budget sets and non-convex preferences as those found in taxation and n…
Sissy That Walk: Transportation to Work by Sexual Orientation
Sonia Oreffice, Dario Sansone
We analyze differences in mode of transportation to work by sexual orientation, using the American Community Survey 2008-2019. Individuals in same-sex couples are significantly les…
Modeling the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of bounded rationality and economic constraints
Oliver Richters
The analogies between economics and classical mechanics can be extended from constrained optimization to constrained dynamics by formalizing economic (constraint) forces and econom…