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A Note on University Admission Tests: Simple Theory and Empirical Analysis (2022)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Eleftheriou, K., & Ioakimidis, M. (2022). A Note on University Admission Tests: Simple Theory and Empirical Analysis. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 22(3), 623-632. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2021-0173

University admission mechanisms are often quite complex. This paper examines one effect of their design on the students' incentives to exert effort in preparation for the test. We adapt a multi-unit all-pay model of auction to draw the conclusion tha... Read More about A Note on University Admission Tests: Simple Theory and Empirical Analysis.

The Effects of Transit Systems on International Trade (2022)
Journal Article
Carballo, J., Graziano, A. G., Schaur, G., & Martincus, C. V. (2024). The Effects of Transit Systems on International Trade. Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(4), 1083-1098. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01189

In this paper, we estimate the trade effects of a transit system upgrading that streamlines border processing in developing countries. Our empirical approach combines transaction-level export data from El Salvador with unique data that distinguishes... Read More about The Effects of Transit Systems on International Trade.

Payments from Households to Distant Polluting Firms (2022)
Journal Article
Dijkstra, B. R. (2022). Payments from Households to Distant Polluting Firms. Environmental and Resource Economics, 82, 681-715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-022-00683-0

We investigate a novel way to encourage separation between firms, causing local pollution, and their victims (households): payments from households to distant polluting firms. These payments do not require monitoring of firms’ emissions or their abat... Read More about Payments from Households to Distant Polluting Firms.

Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems (2022)
Journal Article
Gächter, S., Starmer, C., Thöni, C., Tufano, F., & Weber, T. O. (2022). Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems. Economics Letters, 216, Article 110552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110552

Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant anonymou... Read More about Social closeness can help, harm and be irrelevant in solving pure coordination problems.

Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade (2022)
Journal Article
Galle, S., Rodríguez-Clare, A., & Yi, M. (2023). Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade. Review of Economic Studies, 90(1), 331-375. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac020

We develop a multi-sector gravity model with heterogeneous workers to quantify the aggregate and group-level welfare effects of trade. The model generalizes the specific-factors intuition to a setting with labour reallocation, leads to a parsimonious... Read More about Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade.

Is assisted suicide a substitute for unassisted suicide? (2022)
Journal Article
Girma, S., & Paton, D. (2022). Is assisted suicide a substitute for unassisted suicide?. European Economic Review, 145, Article 104113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104113

Posner hypothesised that the legalisation of assisted suicide may substitute for unassisted (unregulated) suicide. We test predictions arising from this hypothesis using data from US states that have legalised assisted suicide. Event study regression... Read More about Is assisted suicide a substitute for unassisted suicide?.

Workplace inequality is associated with status-signaling expenditure (2022)
Journal Article
Muggleton, N., Trendl, A., Walasek, L., Leake, D., Gathergood, J., & Stewart, N. (2022). Workplace inequality is associated with status-signaling expenditure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(15), Article e2115196119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115196119

Regional inequality is known to magnify sensitivity to social rank. This, in turn, is shown to increase people’s propensity to acquire luxury goods as a means to elevate their perceived social status. Yet existing research has focused on broad, aggre... Read More about Workplace inequality is associated with status-signaling expenditure.

Covid-19 and the Media (2022)
Book Chapter
Ananyev, M., Poyker, M., & Tian, Y. (2022). Covid-19 and the Media. In K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_329-1

This chapter describes the growing literature on the effects of media on Covid-19-related outcomes. First, it discusses the papers related to traditional media. In particular, it discusses the literature that studies the effect of public messages, mi... Read More about Covid-19 and the Media.

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.