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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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Pay Transparency and Gender Equality

UK pay transparency cut the gender pay gap by 19%, mainly by slowing men's pay growth, especially under greater public scrutiny.
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Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration

Under imperfect competition, migration raises wage mark-downs by boosting firm monopsony power, redistributing income from workers to firms despite higher aggregate native earnings.

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Social Science and Medicine:
Getting fit by doing good: Exercise, volunteering, and mental health at scale

Community-based lifestyle interventions combining physical exercise with volunteering are promoted as low-cost, scalable support for those with mental health problems, and feature prominently in social prescribing. Yet r...Read more...

Maria Cotofan, Christian Krekel and Ekaterina Oparina

1 November 2026

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Review of Income and Wealth:
Is it psychologically dangerous to live in a rich area? Evidence from census-matched micro data on suicides in England and Wales

This paper reports a new test of relative-deprivation theory. Research into the potential consequences of relative comparisons has in the past had to rely almost exclusively on subjective data on wellbeing. With informat...Read more...

Caspar Kaiser, Ekaterina Oparina and Andrew J. Oswald

1 November 2026

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The Review of Economic Studies:
Forthcoming
Conversations at scale: robust AI-led interviews

The advent of large language models (LLMs) creates new opportunities to conduct qualitative interviews at scale, with thousands of respondents, thereby bridging qualitative and quantitative methods. We develop a simple, ...Read more...

Friedrich Geiecke and Xavier Jaravel

27 October 2026

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The Economic Journal:
Forthcoming
The Immigration Surplus Revisited

We extend the immigration surplus results of Borjas (1995). In a closed competitive constant-returns economy, we show that an influx of migrants (holding their skill mix fixed) must increase the total real income of nati...Read more...

Michael Amior and Alan Manning

19 October 2026

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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance:
Peer effects in education

The identification of peer effects is challenging. There are many factors not related to social influences that could explain correlations among peers. Peers have been shown to affect many important outcomes, including a...Read more...

Andres Barrios Fernandez

18 October 2026

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Science Advances:
Costly missed connections: Visitation and misconduct in California prisons

Social isolation is a major public health crisis with particularly deleterious consequences for vulnerable populations including incarcerated people. Theoretically, visitation from family should reduce social isolation a...Read more...

M. Keith Chen, Emily Owens, Naomi F. Sugie, Kristin Turney and Yiln Zhuo

9 October 2026

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Labour Economics:
Keeping it in the family: student to degree match

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the sorting of students to university degree programs with regards to first-in-family (FIF) to attend university and gender. Using linked administrative data on the populati...Read more...

Richard Murphy and Pedro Luis Silva

1 October 2026

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Journal of Urban Economics:
Location choice when the number of jobs matters: matching in spatial equilibrium

The idea that people want to go to where the jobs are is intuitive, yet is absent from the standard quantitative spatial modelling approach in which location choices are guided by prices, without reference to quantities ...Read more...

Anthony J. Venables

1 October 2026

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The Economic Journal:
Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

This paper studies the effect of anti-Irish sentiment on 19th-century English jury decisions in criminal trials from London's Old Bailey. Using surnames to measure perceived ethnicity, Irish-named defendants were 3% more...Read more...

Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melisssa Rubio-Ramos

1 October 2026

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Regional Science and Urban Economics:
Forthcoming
Caring in the time of austerity

The years after the election of the UK's coalition government in 2010 saw a decline in central funding to local government and a fall in expenditure on a range of local services, including social services. These cuts wer...Read more...

Stephen Gibbons and Christian A. L. Hilber

15 September 2026

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International Economic Review:
Scientific isolation? The consequences of Trump's China initiative on Chinese research

The 2018 China Initiative by the Trump administration complicated procedures and reduced funding for US-China research collaborations. Using Scopus data, we analyze its impact on Chinese research. We find that it signifi...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, David Stromberg, Xueping Sun, Raphael Wargon and Karolina Westin

11 September 2026

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American Economic Review:
Defying distance? The provision of medical services in the digital age

Digital platforms reduce geographic frictions, enabling better matching between service providers and users. I quantify reallocation gains in Swedish online health care, using nationwide time-conditional random assignmen...Read more...

Amanda Dahlstrand

9 September 2026

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American Economic Review: Insights:
Prime locations

We develop a method for delineating prime locations - ultradense clusters of economic activity- within cities and apply it to comprehensive establishment data covering all US metropolitan areas. We further use big data t...Read more...

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Thilo N. H. Albers and Kristian Behrens

3 September 2026

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The Review of Economics and Statistics:
Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Using microdata for the UK and Germany, we provide novel evidence on the cyclical properties of reservation wages and estimate that wages and reservation wages are characterized by moderate and very similar degrees of cy...Read more...

Felix Koenig, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2 September 2026

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Social Science and Medicine:
Do people get used to working long hours?

Overemployment - working more hours than desired - affects nearly one-third of European workers, yet its consequences remain understudied. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 1984-2019, N = 43,570) and...Read more...

Christian Krekel, Tim Kremser and Georgios Melios

1 September 2026

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Large-scale Assessments in Education:
Driven to succeed? Teenagers' achievement motivation, university aspirations, and performance on high-stakes examinations

There is growing interest in how young people's socio-emotional skills, particularly motivation, shape educational outcomes. Yet less is known about how adolescents' general achievement motivation and their specific aspi...Read more...

John Jerrim, Kirtana Krishnakumar, Nikki Shure and Gill Wyness

29 August 2026

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Review of International Economics:
Value co-creation and value capture in digital innovation ecosystems: a multiple case study in the agrifood sector

We use a large episode of trade liberalization in Spain to test a rich set of channels linking trade and markups. The effect of reductions in import tariffs on firm-level and aggregate markups is pro-competitive, but the...Read more...

Giammario Impullitti and Fahad Kazmi

17 August 2026

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European Economic Review:
Editorial: Europe in a changing world: resilience, industrial policy, and the political economy of fragmentation

The papers collected in this special issue originate from the 2024 Annual Research Conference (ARC 2024), organized by the European Commission?s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, in collaboration with DG ECFIN...Read more...

Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

1 August 2026

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Journal of International Economics:
Endogenous mobility in pandemics: theory and evidence from the United States

We analyze infectious diseases in a general equilibrium model with endogenous mobility, where forward-looking agents weigh disease risks against economic opportunities in cross-regional mobility decisions. This generates...Read more...

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

1 August 2026

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management:
Trade and the scopes of pollution: evidence from China?s world market integration

Although the environmental impact of trade has been a long-standing concern, there is still scant evidence on the channels through which international market access affects pollution. We exploit the unique episode of Chi...Read more...

Stefano Carattini, Hanwei Huang, Frank Pisch and Tejendra Pratap Singh

1 August 2026

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