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Labour market participation of the elderly: the role of family financial transfers in China (2025)
Journal Article
Harris, R., Li, X., & Qian, E. (online). Labour market participation of the elderly: the role of family financial transfers in China. China Population and Development Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42379-025-00182-x

Population ageing has (usually negative) implications for economic growth linked to a declining population of working age. This study uses Chinese household data for 2018 to consider the determinants of the willingness of people who have reached the... Read More about Labour market participation of the elderly: the role of family financial transfers in China.

Reporting nutritional information on wine packaging: Does it affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a choice experiment in Italy (2025)
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Bazzani, C., Scarpa, R., Capitello, R., & Begalli, D. (2025). Reporting nutritional information on wine packaging: Does it affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a choice experiment in Italy. Food Policy, 131, Article 102800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2025.102800

At the end of 2023, EU Commission mandated the adoption of nutritional labelling on wine products. This was intended to tackle irresponsible drinking behaviour and excessive energy intake from alcohol, but the alcohol industry stakeholders have remai... Read More about Reporting nutritional information on wine packaging: Does it affect consumers’ choices? Evidence from a choice experiment in Italy.

Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort (2025)
Journal Article
Nower, M. (online). Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort. Public Choice, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-024-01255-0

The relationship between job security and politicians’ legislative effort is bidirectional, making isolating the impacts, and the mechanisms underlying them, in either direction difficult. Increased legislative effort could increase politicians’ job... Read More about Perceived job security and politicians’ legislative effort.

Distributional justice and hydropower development: A case study of Chile's equity tariff scheme (2024)
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Campos-Requena, N., Vásquez-Lavín, F., Barrientos, M., & Ponce Oliva, R. D. (2025). Distributional justice and hydropower development: A case study of Chile's equity tariff scheme. Energy Policy, 198, Article 114439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114439

Implementing hydropower projects requires understanding community acceptance, especially regarding equity tariff schemes. This study assesses an equity tariff scheme as a compensation mechanism for accepting new hydropower projects by considering red... Read More about Distributional justice and hydropower development: A case study of Chile's equity tariff scheme.

Individual preferences for food items within couples: Validating choice experiments predictions with real purchases data (2024)
Journal Article
Franceschinis, C., Scarpa, R., Thiene, M., & Kessels, R. (2025). Individual preferences for food items within couples: Validating choice experiments predictions with real purchases data. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 69(1), 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12600

Despite the popularity of choice experiments (CEs) for the valuation of environmental goods and services, some of its shortcomings have been only partially addressed by the literature. Among these, of particular saliency are the hypothetical nature o... Read More about Individual preferences for food items within couples: Validating choice experiments predictions with real purchases data.

Proliferation of religious associations and local incumbency advantage: evidence from municipal elections in Turkey (2024)
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Arbatli, E., & Arbatli, C. E. (online). Proliferation of religious associations and local incumbency advantage: evidence from municipal elections in Turkey. Democratization, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2428277

For two decades, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey sustained its electoral performance at the local level. We offer and test a new mechanism that contributed to the party's success in municipal elections. We argue that patronage links... Read More about Proliferation of religious associations and local incumbency advantage: evidence from municipal elections in Turkey.

Optimal planning in habit formation models with multiple goods (2024)
Journal Article
Bambi, M., Ghilli, D., Gozzi, F., & Leocata, M. (online). Optimal planning in habit formation models with multiple goods. Decisions in Economics and Finance, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10203-024-00498-2

In this paper we investigate a model with habit formation and two types of substitute goods. We are inspired by the classical models in e.g. Carroll et al. (Am Econ Rev 90(3):341–355, 2000) where on the contrary only one good is considered. Such a fa... Read More about Optimal planning in habit formation models with multiple goods.

Captains vs. All-Stars: Who makes better leaders? (2024)
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Kocsoy, A. (2024). Captains vs. All-Stars: Who makes better leaders?. PLoS ONE, 19(11), Article e0309374. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309374

This study explores the impact of formally assigned leaders (team captains) and informal leaders (all-stars) on their teammates’ productivity in basketball. It uses in-game injuries as random shocks to examine how the unexpected absence of leaders af... Read More about Captains vs. All-Stars: Who makes better leaders?.

The Spectral Approach to Linear Rational Expectations Models (2024)
Journal Article
Al-Sadoon, M. (online). The Spectral Approach to Linear Rational Expectations Models. Econometric Theory, https://doi.org/10.1017/S026646662400029X

This paper considers linear rational expectations models in the frequency domain. The paper characterizes existence and uniqueness of solutions to particular as well as generic systems. The set of all solutions to a given system is shown to be a fini... Read More about The Spectral Approach to Linear Rational Expectations Models.

AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess (2024)
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Anbarci, N., & Ismail, M. S. (2024). AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess. PLoS ONE, 19(11), Article e0305905. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305905

Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology use has been rising in sports to reach decisions of various complexity. At a relatively low complexity level, for example, major tennis tournaments replaced human line judges with Hawk-Eye Live techno... Read More about AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess.

Rural-Urban Divide of COVID-19 fatalities in India – Investigating the Role of Lifestyle Disorder Diseases (2024)
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Basu, P., Das, S., Dutta Choudhury, A., Mazumder, R., & Sengupta, M. (online). Rural-Urban Divide of COVID-19 fatalities in India – Investigating the Role of Lifestyle Disorder Diseases. Journal of Quantitative Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-024-00422-w

Using data on weekly COVID-19 infections and fatalities at the district level for 19 states and 4 union territories of India, we investigate the determinants of COVID-19 deaths focusing exclusively on the second wave of infections. We include several... Read More about Rural-Urban Divide of COVID-19 fatalities in India – Investigating the Role of Lifestyle Disorder Diseases.

Contingent payments in procurement interactions: Experimental evidence (2024)
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Shachat, J., Walker, M. J., & Wei, L. (2024). Contingent payments in procurement interactions: Experimental evidence. European Economic Review, 170, Article 104886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104886

A primary objective of creating competition among suppliers is the procurement of higher quality goods and services at lower prices. When procuring non-standard goods, it is often difficult to write a complete specification of desired quality in the... Read More about Contingent payments in procurement interactions: Experimental evidence.

Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently (2024)
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Anbarci, N., & Celik, G. (online). Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently. International Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12737

We study arbitration mechanisms where two parties to the dispute have single‐peaked preferences over outcomes, represented by concave utility functions. The most preferred outcome of each party is her private information. By participating in an arbit... Read More about Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently.

The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap (2024)
Journal Article
Getik, D., & Meier, A. N. (in press). The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20230251

We study the impact of the early gender environment on inequality in the labor market. To this end, we link primary school data to occupations and earnings. We find that women exposed to more girls at critical ages earn more later on: A 10% increase... Read More about The Long-Run Effects of Peer Gender On Occupational Sorting and the Wage Gap.

Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials (2024)
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Xiao, Z., Hauser, O., Kirkwood, C., Li, D. Z., Ford, T., & Higgins, S. (2024). Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 22606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73714-z

Large-scale Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are widely regarded as “the gold standard” for testing the causal effects of school-based interventions. RCTs typically present the statistical significance of the average treatment effect (ATE), which... Read More about Uncovering individualised treatment effects for educational trials.

Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events (2024)
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Becker, C. K., Melkonyan, T., Proto, E., Sofianos, A., & Trautmann, S. T. (in press). Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events. Journal of the European Economic Association,

Bayesian updating is the dominant theory of learning. However, the theory is silent about how individuals react to events that were previously unforeseen. We study how decision makers update their beliefs if unforeseen events materialize, and under w... Read More about Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events.

Nudging consumers' choices for niche milk: a real purchase experiment (2024)
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Franceschinis, C., Scarpa, R., & Thiene, M. (2024). Nudging consumers' choices for niche milk: a real purchase experiment. Food Policy, 128, Article 102729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102729

Changing behaviours causing poor health is an ongoing global health challenge that requires developing adequate food policies and strengthening their effectiveness. Policies based on nudging have become increasingly popular internationally, but the l... Read More about Nudging consumers' choices for niche milk: a real purchase experiment.

The inelastic demand for affirmative action (2024)
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Getik, D., Islam, M., & Samahita, M. (2024). The inelastic demand for affirmative action. European Economic Review, 170, Article 104862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104862

We study the role of financial incentives in driving support for affirmative action (AA) in a series of online experiments. Participants act as employers deciding whether to use AA in hiring. We implement three treatments to disenta... Read More about The inelastic demand for affirmative action.

Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities (2024)
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Carvalho, J.-P., Pradelski, B. R. S., & Williams, C. (online). Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities. Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.03839

Studying the design of affirmative action policies when identities are multidimensional, we provide a formal demonstration of the importance of intersectionality. Prevailing affirmative action policies are based only on one identity dimension (e.g.,... Read More about Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities.

Job Satisfaction and Workplace Representation in Europe (2024)
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Addison, J., & Teixeira, P. (online). Job Satisfaction and Workplace Representation in Europe. Manchester School, https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12499

The backdrop to this inquiry into the relationship between worker job satisfaction and workplace representation in European nations is twofold. The first is that the bulk of research has focused on union membership and job satisfaction in Anglophone... Read More about Job Satisfaction and Workplace Representation in Europe.