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作者：Stans, Renske; Ehrmantraut, Laura; Siemers, Malin; Pinger, Pia
作者单位：University of Bonn; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Cologne
摘要：Do employers seek to attract individuals with more education because it enhances human capital or because it signals higher levels of pre-existing traits? We experimentally vary master's degree completion rates on applicant r & eacute;sum & eacute;s and examine how this influences candidates' desirability and employer perceptions of their productive characteristics. Our findings show that while a completed master's degree increases desirability, an incomplete master's degree is perceived by hu...
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作者：Ham, John C.; Wright, Julian; Ye, Ziqiu
作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; New York University; National University of Singapore; University of International Business & Economics
摘要：We produce updated rankings of economics journals based on established and new methodologies, and use these rankings to document the spectacular rise of the new society journals in economics. We show that, while several factors (editor reputations, editor experience, citations from parent journals and the number of articles published) help determine these journals' impact factors, none help explain why the new journals outperform natural comparison journals. However, soliciting top authors con...
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作者：Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Southern California
摘要：Children cause large reductions in earnings for mothers, but not fathers, a stylised fact known as the 'child penalty' that explains a substantial portion of remaining gender income gaps. We evaluate the impact of paternity leave, a policy intended to increase fathers' time with their young children and potentially decrease the child penalty by making caregiving more equitable. Despite fathers overwhelmingly taking up this leave, we detect no impacts on child penalties. We additionally find no...
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作者：Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Rosholm, Michael
作者单位：Aarhus University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Socioeconomic status gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among low-socioeconomic-status children. Consequently, high-polygenic-score children experience the largest achievement growth over the school years, even if they are born in socioeconomic disadvantage. While the socioeconomic status...
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作者：Hagenbach, Jeanne; Kranton, Rachel
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Duke University
摘要：Can competition or cooperation for economic gain affect people's social perceptions of others? This paper experimentally examines this possible link from the economic to the social realm. Subjects engage in a task facing either a tournament or a cooperative pay scheme, after which subjects are asked their social perceptions of their counterparts in the task-how similar they are and how much they have in common. The pay schemes do not affect answers to the subjective similarity measure, but sig...
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作者：Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; Koschnick, Julius
作者单位：University of Bergamo; University of Cologne; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3,300 members across active economic societies in Germany with those of patent holders and World's Fair exhibitors, we show that regions with more members were more innovative in the late nineteenth century. This long-lasting effect of societies arguably ...
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作者：Werner, Tobias
作者单位：Maynooth University; University of Southampton; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
摘要：I study self-learning pricing algorithms and show that they are collusive in market simulations. To derive a counterfactual that resembles traditional tacit collusion, I conduct market experiments with humans in the same environment. Across different treatments, I vary the market size and the number of firms that use a pricing algorithm. I demonstrate that oligopoly markets can become more collusive if algorithms make pricing decisions instead of humans. In two-firm markets, prices are weakly ...
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作者：Bolt, Uta
作者单位：University of Bristol
摘要：This paper documents how cognitive skills develop beyond childhood. Using unique data from a British birth cohort followed since 1958, I link cognitive skills in childhood to cognitive skills at 50. I establish five facts from these data. First, childhood cognitive skills persist strongly into adulthood. Second, wages at 50 are better predicted by cognitive skills at 16 than by cognitive skills at 50. Third, higher education predicts higher cognitive skills and wages. Fourth, occupational choi...
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作者：Ragan, Kelly Suzanne
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：The introduction of oral contraception ('the pill') was a watershed in fertility control. Yet, the pill's impact on childbearing has been hard to establish due to limited data. I exploit rich data on pill sales across markets and time to characterise how Swedish teens' access to pharmacies shaped pill sales and fertility after the pill's introduction. Pill sales are highly sensitive to pharmacy access, and teen fertility responds strongly to pill sales. The unique data establish an important l...
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作者：Graf, Caroline; Pondorfer, Andreas; Schulz, Jonathan F.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Zurich; Technical University of Munich; George Mason University
摘要：Gender differences in preferences play a crucial role in shaping economic outcomes. This study examines cross-societal variation in gender differences in honesty, testing whether they reflect innate traits or are shaped by social norms. Using global experimental and survey data, we find that gender differences in honesty emerge primarily in Western societies, where women report stronger honesty norms than men, while such differences are absent in non-Western societies. Additional evidence show...
