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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap (2022)
Journal Article
Cubitt, R., Kopsacheilis, O., & Starmer, C. (2022). An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 65(2), 105-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-022-09393-w

The Description-Experience gap (DE gap) is widely thought of as a tendency for people to act as if overweighting rare events when information about those events is derived from descriptions but as if underweighting rare events when they experience th... Read More about An inquiry into the nature and causes of the Description - Experience gap.

The Persistence of Healthy Behaviors in Food Purchasing (2022)
Journal Article
Hinnosaar, M. (2023). The Persistence of Healthy Behaviors in Food Purchasing. Marketing Science, 42(3), 521-537. https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2022.1396

When a policy gives temporary incentives for healthy behaviors, how long does the impact last? The U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children gives food vouchers to young children and their mothers. Using household-l... Read More about The Persistence of Healthy Behaviors in Food Purchasing.

Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study of a multicomponent intervention to promote a sustainable return to work of workers on long-term sick leave — PROWORK: PROmoting a Sustainable and Healthy Return to WORK (2022)
Journal Article
Varela-Mato, V., Godfree, K., Adem, A., Blake, H., Bartle, C., Daly, G., …Munir, F. (2022). Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study of a multicomponent intervention to promote a sustainable return to work of workers on long-term sick leave — PROWORK: PROmoting a Sustainable and Healthy Return to WORK. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8(1), Article 188. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01143-8

Background: The cost of sickness absence has major social, psychological and financial implications for individuals and organisations. Return-to-work (RTW) interventions that support good quality communication and contact with the workplace can reduc... Read More about Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study of a multicomponent intervention to promote a sustainable return to work of workers on long-term sick leave — PROWORK: PROmoting a Sustainable and Healthy Return to WORK.

Coalition Formation in Games with Externalities (2022)
Journal Article
Montero, M. (2022). Coalition Formation in Games with Externalities. Dynamic Games and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13235-022-00460-0

This paper studies an extensive form game of coalition formation with random proposers in games with externalities. It is shown that an agreement will be reached without delay if any set of coalitions profits from merging. Even under this strong cond... Read More about Coalition Formation in Games with Externalities.

Prediction of nitrogen excretion from data on dairy cows fed a wide range of diets compiled in an intercontinental database: A meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Bougouin, A., Hristov, A., Dijkstra, J., Aguerre, M. J., Ahvenjärvi, S., Arndt, C., …Kebreab, E. (2022). Prediction of nitrogen excretion from data on dairy cows fed a wide range of diets compiled in an intercontinental database: A meta-analysis. Journal of Dairy Science, 105(9), 7462-7481. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-20885

Manure nitrogen (N) from cattle contributes to nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions and nitrate leaching. Measurement of manure N outputs on dairy farms is laborious, expensive, and impractical at large scales; therefore, models are needed to predict... Read More about Prediction of nitrogen excretion from data on dairy cows fed a wide range of diets compiled in an intercontinental database: A meta-analysis.

Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods (2022)
Journal Article
Gächter, S., Kölle, F., & Quercia, S. (2022). Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods. Games and Economic Behavior, 135, 338-355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2022.06.009

We study two generic versions of public goods problems: in Provision problems, the public good does not exist initially and needs to be provided; in Maintenance problems, the public good already exists and needs to be maintained. In four lab and onli... Read More about Preferences and Perceptions in Provision and Maintenance Public Goods.

The Impact of Covid-19 on Productivity (2022)
Working Paper
Bloom, N., Bunn, P., Mizen, P., Smietanka, P., & Thwaites, G. The Impact of Covid-19 on Productivity

We analyse the impact of Covid-19 on productivity using data from an innovative monthly firm survey panel that asks for quantitative impacts of Covid on inputs and outputs. We find total factor productivity (TFP) fell by up to 5% during 2020-21. The... Read More about The Impact of Covid-19 on Productivity.

Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants (2022)
Journal Article
Hinnosaar, M., & Liu, E. M. (2022). Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants. Journal of Health Economics, 85, Article 102648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102648

How malleable is alcohol consumption? Specifically, how much is alcohol consumption driven by the current environment versus individual characteristics? To answer this question, we analyze changes in alcohol purchases when consumers move from one sta... Read More about Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants.

Democracy, growth, heterogeneity, and robustness (2022)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M. (2022). Democracy, growth, heterogeneity, and robustness. European Economic Review, 147, Article 104173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104173

I motivate and empirically investigate differential long-run growth effects of democratisation across countries. While the existing literature recognises the potential for such heterogeneity, empirical implementations to date unanimously assume a com... Read More about Democracy, growth, heterogeneity, and robustness.

Estimation of the variance function in structural break autoregressive models with nonstationary and explosive segments (2022)
Journal Article
Harvey, D. I., Leybourne, S. J., & Zu, Y. (2023). Estimation of the variance function in structural break autoregressive models with nonstationary and explosive segments. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 44(2), 181-205. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsa.12660

In this paper we consider estimating the innovation variance function when the conditional mean model is characterized by a structural break autoregressive model, which exhibits multiple unit root, explosive and stationary collapse segments, allowing... Read More about Estimation of the variance function in structural break autoregressive models with nonstationary and explosive segments.

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. (2022). The Effects of Transit Systems on International Trade. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-41. 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.

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.

“Notre-Taxe de Paris”, Tax Expenditures with two Public Goods (2022)
Journal Article
Rueda, V., & Wilemme, G. (in press). “Notre-Taxe de Paris”, Tax Expenditures with two Public Goods. Revue Economique,

This article presents a new efficiency-equity trade-off when setting up tax rebates in the presence of multiple goods. Although tax rebates can efficiently raise more public funds, they can also alter the mix of public goods. We find the condition fo... Read More about “Notre-Taxe de Paris”, Tax Expenditures with two Public Goods.

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.

International Trade Liberalization and Domestic Institutional Reform: Effects of WTO Accession on Chinese Internal Migration Policy (2022)
Journal Article
Tian, Y. (2022). International Trade Liberalization and Domestic Institutional Reform: Effects of WTO Accession on Chinese Internal Migration Policy. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01175

Economic institutions that impede factor mobility become more costly when an economy experiences substantial transitions such as trade liberalization. I study how trade triggers changes in labor institutions that regulate internal migration in the co... Read More about International Trade Liberalization and Domestic Institutional Reform: Effects of WTO Accession on Chinese Internal Migration Policy.