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The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment (2021)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Lemos, S., & Rockey, J. (2021). The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment. Economica, 88(352), 896-941. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12384

This paper uses UK administrative data to study the long-term effects of unemployment on earnings. It is the first paper to pinpoint accurately the relative importance of the timing of employment shocks within workers' lives. We find a strong effect... Read More about The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Lifetime Scar of Youth Unemployment.

Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm (2021)
Journal Article
Checchi, D., Ciolfi, A., De Fraja, G., Mazzotta, I., & Verzillo, S. (2021). Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm. Economica, 88(352), 1107-1129. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12373

This paper determines the assessment of the publications submitted to the UK research evaluation carried out in 2014, the REF, which would have resulted if they had been assessed with the bibliometric algorithm used by the Italian evaluation agency,... Read More about Have you Read This? An Empirical Comparison of the British REF Peer Review and the Italian VQR Bibliometric Algorithm.

Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past (2021)
Journal Article
Ciccarelli, C., Fraja, G. D., & Vuri, D. (2021). Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past. Economics and Human Biology, 42, Article 101002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101002

This paper studies the effect of passive smoking on child development. We use data from a time when the adverse effects of smoking on health were not known and when tobacco was not an inferior good. This allows us to disentangle the effect on foetuse... Read More about Effects of Passive Smoking on Prenatal and Infant Development: Lessons from the Past.

Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home (2021)
Journal Article
De Fraja, G., Matheson, J., & Rockey, J. (2021). Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home. Covid Economics, 1-41

The Covid-19 health crisis has led to a substantial increase in work done from home, which shifts economic activity across geographic space. We refer to this shift as a 'Zoomshock'. The Zoomshock has implications for locally consumed services; the cl... Read More about Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home.