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econ.GN2025

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…

econ.GN2024★ 35 cited

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…

econ.GN2024★ 6 cited

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…

econ.GN2021★ 2 cited

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…

econ.GN2021★ 4 cited

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…

econ.GN2021★ 208 cited

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…

econ.GN2020★ 46 cited

The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity Among Microenterprises: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Nusrat Abedin Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Abdul Malek +1

Improving productivity among farm microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive and resources are scarce. Relaxing cred…

econ.GN2020★ 3 cited

The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys

Plamen Nikolov, Nusrat Jimi

Numerous studies have considered the important role of cognition in estimating the returns to schooling. How cognitive abilities affect schooling may have important policy implicat…

econ.GN2019★ 19 cited

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…

econ.GN2019★ 122 cited

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…

econ.GN2018★ 5 cited

Spreading of an infectious disease between different locations

Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini

The endogenous adaptation of agents, that may adjust their local contact network in response to the risk of being infected, can have the perverse effect of increasing the overall s…