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Peer-reviewed academic papers by CEP researchers. Where possible, open access to these articles is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

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Solo self-employment and alternative work arrangements

Tito Boeri, Giulia Giupponi, Alan B. Krueger and Stephen Machin look at the changing nature of self-employment in the UK, US and Italy, examining the possible impact of legislation on minimum wages and tax treatment. Read more...
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Product mix and firm productivity responses to trade competition

Thierry Mayer, Marc J. Melitz and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products sold in the affected destinations. Read more...

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Journal of Human Resources:
The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labor Markets

Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-settin...Read more...

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning and Michael Oberfichtner

1 April 2022

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The Review of Economics and Statistics:
A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France

Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. A 1999 rise in the French layoff tax paid by large private firms when they laid off older workers made younger workers less secure; this ins...Read more...

Andrew E. Clark and Anthony Lepinteur

1 March 2022

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Journal of Urban Economics:
JUE insight: How much does COVID-19 increase with mobility? Evidence from New York and four other U.S. cities

How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total cases per capita decrease by 19% for every ten percentage point fall in mobility...Read more...

Edward L. Glaeser, Caitlin Gorback and Stephen J. Redding

1 January 2022

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The Review of Economics and Statistics:
Of Mice and Merchants: Connectedness and the Location of Economic Activity in the Iron Age

We study the causal relationship between geographic connectedness and development using one of the earliest massive trade expansions: the first systematic crossing of open seas in the Mediterranean during the time of the...Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Stephan E. Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

1 October 2021

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The Review of Economics and Statistics:
The Welfare Consequences of Centralization: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Switzerland

Many countries are reallocating tasks and powers to more central levels of government. To identify centralization's welfare effects, I use a difference-in-differences design that relies on time and cross-cantonal variati...Read more...

Sarah Flèche

1 October 2021

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History of the Family:
Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851�1911

This article uses the British Business Census of Entrepreneurs (BBCE) to examine the relationship between the household and entrepreneurship in England and Wales between 1851 and 1911. The BBCE allows three kinds of entr...Read more...

Robert J Bennett, Piero Montebruno, Harry Smith and Carry van Lieshout

18 August 2021

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German Economic Review:
Trade and the size distribution of firms: Evidence from the German Empire

What effect did trade have on the size distribution of firms during the first wave of globalization? Three historical datasets from the German Empire between 1875 and 1907 were collected and harmonized to answer this que...Read more...

Marcus Biermann

7 August 2021

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Journal of Political Economy:
Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania

Africa’s demand for urban housing is soaring, even as it faces a proliferation of slums. In this setting, can modest infrastructure investments in greenfield areas where people subsequently build their own houses facilit...Read more...

Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch and Tanner Regan

1 July 2021

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Oxford Review of Economic Policy:
The World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the way forward

Understanding how differences in management 'best practices' affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics, and public policy. Th...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen

1 July 2021

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Scandinavian Journal of Economics:
Living in the Shadow of the Past: Financial Profiles and Well-Being*

We consider the link between individual financial profiles over time and well-being, as measured by life satisfaction. In particular, we look at annual self-reported financial worsening and improvement information for mo...Read more...

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Rong Zhu

1 July 2021

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Journal of the European Economic Association:
Organizing Global Supply Chains: Input-Output Linkages and Vertical Integration

We study how the technological importance of inputs—measured by cost shares—is related to the decision to “make” or “buy” that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an instrumental variable approach b...Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Frank Pisch and Claudia Steinwender

1 June 2021

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Journal of Applied Econometrics:
Catching up to girls: Understanding the gender imbalance in educational attainment within race

We estimate a sequential model of schooling to assess the major contributing factors to the large gender imbalance in educational attainment within racial groups. First, we find that differences between males and females...Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo and Jonathan James

1 June 2021

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The Economic Journal:
Multi-Task Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors

This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the effects of providing stronger research incentives to faculty members on universities’ average teaching and research performance. The results indicate that professors ...Read more...

Marta De Philippis

1 May 2021

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The Review of Economics and Statistics:
Trade and management

—We study how management practices shape export performance using matched production-trade-management data for Chinese and American firms and a randomized control trial in India. Better-managed firms are more likely to e...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom, Kalina Manova, Stephen Teng Sun, John Van Reenen and Zhihong Yu

1 May 2021

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Economics and Human Biology:
Prenatal economic shocks and birth outcomes in UK cohort data

We consider the effects of major prenatal economic shocks experienced by mothers on two indicators of newborn-infant health, birth weight and head circumference, using detailed microdata from the UK ALSPAC survey. Contro...Read more...

Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Nicholas Rohde

1 May 2021

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Journal of Economic Geography:
Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply

We explore the effects of local economic conditions on the type and size of newly constructed housing units in a city. Exploiting the 1984–2004 metro area samples of the American Housing Survey and US Census building per...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber, Jan Rouwendal and Wouter Vermeulen

1 May 2021

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Journal of the European Economic Association:
Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences Across Countries

This paper studies the contribution of parental influence in accounting for cross-country gaps in human capital achievements. We argue that the cross-country variation in unobserved parental characteristics is at least a...Read more...

Marta De Philippis and Federico Rossi

1 April 2021

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Fiscal Studies:
Global banking: Endogenous competition and risk taking

When banks expand abroad, their riskiness decreases if foreign expansion happens in destination countries that are more competitive than their origin countries. We reach this conclusion in three steps. First, we develop ...Read more...

Ester Faia, Sebastien Laffitte, Maximilian Mayer and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

1 April 2021

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Journal of Urban Economics:
The impact of public employment: Evidence from Bonn

This paper evaluates the impact of changes in public employment on private sector activity using the creation of the new West German government in Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variati...Read more...

Sascha O. Becker, Stephan Heblich and Daniel M. Sturm

1 March 2021

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Journal of Urban Economics:
Market tremors: Shale gas exploration, earthquakes, and their impact on house prices

Shale gas has grown to become a major new source of energy in countries around the globe. While its importance for energy supply is well recognized, there has also been public concern over potential risks from hydraulic ...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons, Stephan Heblich and Christopher Timmins

1 March 2021

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