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Cognitive reserve and individual differences in brain tumour patients (2023)
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Tomasino, B., De Fraja, G., Guarracino, I., D’Agostini, S., Ius, T., Skrap, M., & Rumiati, R. I. (2023). Cognitive reserve and individual differences in brain tumour patients. Brain Communications, 5(4), Article fcad198. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad198

The aim of the paper is to determine the effects of the cognitive reserve on brain tumour patients' cognitive functions and, specifically, if cognitive reserve helps patients cope with the negative effects of brain tumours on their cognitive function... Read More about Cognitive reserve and individual differences in brain tumour patients.

Covid-19 Vaccines As a Condition of Employment: Impact on Uptake, Staffing, and Mortality in Elderly Care Homes (2023)
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Girma, S., & Paton, D. (in press). Covid-19 Vaccines As a Condition of Employment: Impact on Uptake, Staffing, and Mortality in Elderly Care Homes. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4832

Laws mandating vaccination against Covid-19 as a condition of employment in health and care sectors were commonplace during the pandemic. Using weekly data at the local authority level, we examine the impact of the vaccine mandate for elderly care ho... Read More about Covid-19 Vaccines As a Condition of Employment: Impact on Uptake, Staffing, and Mortality in Elderly Care Homes.

Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market (2023)
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Eberhardt, M., Facchini, G., & Rueda, V. (2023). Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market. Economic Journal, 133(655), 2676-2708. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead045

Academia, and economics in particular, faces increased scrutiny because of gender imbalance. This paper studies the job market for entry-level faculty positions. We employ machine learning methods to analyze gendered patterns in the text of 12,000 re... Read More about Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market.

Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa (2023)
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Tagem, A. M. E., & Morrissey, O. (2023). Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Institutional Economics, 19(3), 332-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137422000145

This paper contributes to research on the institutional determinants of tax capacity using annual data from 39 sub-Saharan African countries from 1985 to 2018 to construct a measure of tax capacity for each country based on the trend component of the... Read More about Institutions and tax capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.

Are political and economic integration intertwined? (2023)
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Bratsberg, B., Facchini, G., Frattini, T., & Rosso, A. C. (2023). Are political and economic integration intertwined?. Economica, 90(360), 1265-1306. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12482

Economic incentives play a key role in the decision to run for office, but little is known on how they shape immigrants' self-selection into candidacy. We study this question using a two-period Roy model, and show that if returns to labour market exp... Read More about Are political and economic integration intertwined?.

Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK (2023)
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Disney, R., Gathergood, J., Machin, S., & Sandi, M. (2023). Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK. Economic Journal, 133(655), 2640–2675. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead040

‘Right to Buy’, a large-scale natural experiment whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy properties at heavily subsidised prices, increased the United Kingdom homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points between its 1980 introduction... Read More about Does Homeownership Reduce Crime? A Radical Housing Reform from the UK.

Bonferroni Type Tests for Return Predictability and the Initial Condition (2023)
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Astill, S., Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., & Taylor, A. M. (2024). Bonferroni Type Tests for Return Predictability and the Initial Condition. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 42(2), 499-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2023.2201313

We develop tests for predictability that are robust to both the magnitude of the initial condition and the degree of persistence of the predictor. While the popular Bonferroni Q test of Campbell and Yogo displays excellent power properties for strong... Read More about Bonferroni Type Tests for Return Predictability and the Initial Condition.

Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence (2023)
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Lane, T., Nosenzo, D., & Sonderegger, S. (2023). Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence. American Economic Review, 113(5), 1255-1293. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20210970

A large theoretical literature argues laws exert a causal effect on norms, but empirical evidence remains scant. Using a novel identification strategy, we provide a compelling empirical test of this proposition. We use incentivized vignette experimen... Read More about Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence.

Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies (2023)
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Chuah, S., Gächter, S., Hoffmann, R., & Tan, J. H. W. (2023). Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies. Journal of Economic Psychology, 97, Article 102630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2023.102630

What personal characteristics are associated with the extent to which individuals discriminate against particular groups? We use an incentive-compatible measure of an individual's tendency to discriminate on others’ different social identities that t... Read More about Who discriminates? Evidence from a trust game experiment across three societies.

Macroprudential policy implementation in a heterogeneous monetary union (2023)
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Rubio, M. (2024). Macroprudential policy implementation in a heterogeneous monetary union. Oxford Economic Papers, 76(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpad012

In this article, I develop a two-country new Keynesian general equilibrium model with housing and collateral constraints to explore how macroprudential policies should be conducted in a heterogeneous monetary union. I consider several types of cross-... Read More about Macroprudential policy implementation in a heterogeneous monetary union.

Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity (2023)
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Forlani, E., Martin, R., Mion, G., & Muûls, M. (2023). Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity. Economic Journal, 133(654), 2251-2302. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead031

We develop a novel framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, quantity TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation between the three dimensions unrestricted. We accomplish this by explicitly introducing de... Read More about Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity.

Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act (2023)
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Facchini, G., Hatton, T. J., & Steinhardt, M. F. (in press). Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act. Journal of Economic History,

The 1965 Immigration Act represented a radical shift in US policy, which has been credited with dramatically expanding the volume and changing the composition of immigration. Its passing has often been described as the result of political machination... Read More about Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act.

On the impacts of higher tobacco taxes in Argentina: a computable general equilibrium approach (2023)
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Cicowiez, M., Cruces, G., Falcone, G., & Puig, J. (2023). On the impacts of higher tobacco taxes in Argentina: a computable general equilibrium approach. Tobacco Control, Article 057725. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2022-057725

Objectives: We analyse the employment effects of increasing tobacco taxation in Argentina by building a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. Methods: In line with recent changes in tobacco taxation in the country, the CGE model simulates an in... Read More about On the impacts of higher tobacco taxes in Argentina: a computable general equilibrium approach.

Equilibrium Analysis in Behavioural One-Sector Growth Models (2023)
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Acemoglu, D., & Jensen, M. K. (2024). Equilibrium Analysis in Behavioural One-Sector Growth Models. Review of Economic Studies, 91(2), 599-640. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdad043

Rich behavioral biases, mistakes and limits on rational decision-making are often thought to make equilibrium analysis much more intractable. We establish that this is not the case in the context of one-sector growth models such as Ramsey-Cass-Koopma... Read More about Equilibrium Analysis in Behavioural One-Sector Growth Models.

Optimal Sequential Contests (2023)
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Hinnosaar, T. (in press). Optimal Sequential Contests. Theoretical Economics, 19(1), 207-244. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3119014

I study sequential contests where the efforts of earlier players may be disclosed to later players by nature or by design. The model has many applications, including rent seeking, R\&D, oligopoly, public goods provision, and tragedy of the commons. I... Read More about Optimal Sequential Contests.

Naïve Buying Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors (2023)
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Gathergood, J., Hirshleifer, D., Leake, D., Sakaguchi, H., & Stewart, N. (2023). Naïve Buying Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors. Journal of Finance, 78(3), 1705-1741. https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13222

We provide the first tests to distinguish whether individual investors equally balance their overall portfolios (naïve portfolio diversification, NPD) or, in contrast, equally balance the values of same-day purchases of multiple assets (naïve buying... Read More about Naïve Buying Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors.

Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act (2023)
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Bernini, A., Facchini, G., & Testa, C. (2023). Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act. Journal of Political Economy, 131(4), 994-1056. https://doi.org/10.1086/722092

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 redefined race relations in the United States. Yet evidence on its effect on Black office holding remains scant. Using novel data on Black elected officials between 1962 and 1980, we assess the impact of the Voting Right... Read More about Race, Representation, and Local Governments in the US South: The Effect of the Voting Rights Act.

Let's stay together: The effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement (2023)
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Albornoz, F., Contreras, D., & Upward, R. (2023). Let's stay together: The effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement. Economics of Education Review, 94, Article 102375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102375

We explore the effectiveness of repeating the student-teacher match on test scores, for the universe of 8th graders in Chile using information on all student-teacher matches across multiple subjects and years, and a national, anonymous measure of tes... Read More about Let's stay together: The effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement.

Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992–2012 (2023)
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Khan, R., & Morrissey, O. (2023). Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992–2012. Food Policy, 116, Article 102421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102421

We use five waves of household surveys in Uganda, from 1992/3 to 2011/12, to study income diversification and its effect on the welfare of rural and urban households during a period of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction, comparing the 19... Read More about Income diversification and household welfare in Uganda 1992–2012.

Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production (2023)
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Gächter, S., Starmer, C., & Tufano, F. (2023). Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01283

We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-register... Read More about Measuring “Group Cohesion” to Reveal the Power of Social Relationships in Team Production.