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Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect (2022)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., Matthews, L., Cárdenas, D., & Williams, C. (2022). Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect. Marine Policy, 139, Article 105044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105044

In response to labour and human rights violations onboard fishing vessels, the private sector is increasingly relying on market-based solutions in the form of voluntary, non-governmental social governance tools to improve working conditions for fishe... Read More about Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect.

Does online salience predict charitable giving? Evidence from SMS text donations (2022)
Journal Article
Perroni, C., Scharf, K., Talavera, O., & Vi, L. (2022). Does online salience predict charitable giving? Evidence from SMS text donations. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 197, 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.02.015

We explore the link between online salience and charitable donations. Using a unique dataset on phone text donations that includes detailed information on the timing of cash gifts to charities, we link donations to time variation in online searches f... Read More about Does online salience predict charitable giving? Evidence from SMS text donations.

Testing for Co-explosive Behaviour in Financial Time Series (2022)
Journal Article
Evripidou, A. C., Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., & Sollis, R. (2022). Testing for Co-explosive Behaviour in Financial Time Series. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(3), 624-650. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12487

This article proposes a test to determine if two price series that each contain an explosive autoregressive regime consistent with the presence of a bubble are related in the sense that a linear combination of them is integrated of order zero. We ref... Read More about Testing for Co-explosive Behaviour in Financial Time Series.

Reply to Nielsen et al.: Social mindfulness is associated with countries’ environmental performance and individual environmental concern (2022)
Journal Article
van Lange, P. A., Van Doesum, N. J., Murphy, R. O., Gallucci, M., Aharonov-Majar, E., Athenstaedt, U., …Van Lange, P. A. M. (2022). Reply to Nielsen et al.: Social mindfulness is associated with countries’ environmental performance and individual environmental concern. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(9), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122077119

Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets (2022)
Journal Article
Rustagi, D., & Kroell, M. (2022). Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets. Journal of Development Economics, 156, Article 102819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102819

There is astounding variation in product quality sold in markets even when quality is difficult to ascertain and rules are poorly enforced. We investigate whether sellers differ in innate honesty (incur private cost to provide good quality) and wheth... Read More about Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets.

The impact of child migration on the health and well‐being of parents left behind (2022)
Journal Article
Bridges, S., & Liu, L. (2022). The impact of child migration on the health and well‐being of parents left behind. Journal of International Development, 34(6), 1145-1164. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3621

This paper uses data from the China Health and Retirement Survey to estimate the causal effect child out-migration has on the health of parents in China. For rural parents, we show that after controlling for self-selection, child out-migration has a... Read More about The impact of child migration on the health and well‐being of parents left behind.

The order of presentation in trials: Plaintive plaintiffs (2022)
Journal Article
D'Agostino, E., & Seidmann, D. J. (2022). The order of presentation in trials: Plaintive plaintiffs. Games and Economic Behavior, 132, 328-336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2022.01.009

Is it better to present evidence first or second in trials if witnesses cannot lie, and the litigants share all available witnesses? We address this question by defining preferences over playing games via their equilibrium correspondences. Exploiting... Read More about The order of presentation in trials: Plaintive plaintiffs.

Fundamentals, regimes and exchange rate forecasts: Insights from a meta exchange rate model (2022)
Journal Article
Aristidou, C., Lee, K., & Shields, K. (2022). Fundamentals, regimes and exchange rate forecasts: Insights from a meta exchange rate model. Journal of International Money and Finance, 123, Article 102601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2022.102601

A ‘meta’ model of the exchange rate combines a range of models distinguished by the drivers of the rate and by regime duration. Alternative model weights are proposed, including those obtained from a novel non-nested hypothesis-testing technique that... Read More about Fundamentals, regimes and exchange rate forecasts: Insights from a meta exchange rate model.

Social learning along international migrant networks (2022)
Journal Article
Tian, Y., Caballero, M. E., & Kovak, B. K. (2022). Social learning along international migrant networks. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 195, 103-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.12.028

We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-... Read More about Social learning along international migrant networks.