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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...

Latest Journal articles

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Scientific Reports:
Forthcoming
Happiness predicts compliance with preventive health behaviours during Covid-19 lockdowns

To combat the public health crisis of Covid-19, governments and public health officials have been asking individuals to substantially change their behaviours for prolonged periods of time. Are happier people more willing...Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt, Christian Krekel and Sarah Swanke

17 May 2023

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Managerial and Decision Economics:
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Evaluating merger effects

This paper proposes a new algorithm to identify the potential effect of mergers by comparing the outcomes of interest in areas of overlap for the merging parties vis-a-vis areas where no overlap exists within a differenc...Read more...

Christos Genakos, Andreas Lamprinidis and James Walker

23 April 2023

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Economica:
Forthcoming
'Good jobs', training and skilled immigration

Has skilled immigration into the UK led to a reduction in the training of native-born workers? To address this concern, this paper describes a theoretical model where immigration can affect the training of native-born wo...Read more...

Andrew Mountford and Jonathan Wadsworth

17 April 2023

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The Economic Journal:
Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity

We develop a novel framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, quantity TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation between the three dimensions unrestricted. We accomplish thi...Read more...

Emanuele Forlani, Ralf Martin, Giordano Mion and Mirabelle Muûls

17 April 2023

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The Journal of Economic Inequality:
Intergenerational Home Ownership

This paper studies intergenerational links in home ownership, an increasingly important wealth marker and a measure of economic status in itself. Repeated cross sectional UK data show that home ownership rates have falle...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin

5 April 2023

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The Economic Journal:
Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline

We assess the career earnings losses that individual Swedish workers suffered when their occupations' employment declined. High-quality data allow us to overcome sorting into declining occupations on various attributes, ...Read more...

Per-Anders Edin, Tiernan Evans, Georg Graetz, Sofia Hernnäs and Guy Michaels

1 April 2023

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Journal of the European Economic Association:
City of dreams

Bigger cities offer more valuable experiences and opportunities in exchange for higher housing costs. While higher-ability workers benefit more from bigger cities, they are not more likely to move to one. Our model of ur...Read more...

Jorge De la Roca, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Diego Puga

1 April 2023

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Econometrica:
Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium

We incorporate forward-looking capital accumulation into a dynamic discrete choice model of migration. We characterize the steady-state equilibrium; generalize existing dynamic exact-hat algebra techniques to incorporate...Read more...

Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Stephen J. Redding

17 March 2023

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Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour:
Perceptions related to engaging in non-driving activities in an automated vehicle while commuting: A text mining approach

Automated vehicles (AVs) offer human operators the opportunity to participate in non-driving activities while on the move. In this study, we examined and compared drivers' perception of non-driving activities in two driv...Read more...

Linda Ng Boyle, Andrew L. Kun, John D Lee, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Yilun Xing

8 March 2023

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Review of Economics and Statistics :
Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences For Life

Preferences for monetary and nonmonetary job attributes are important for understanding workers' motivation and the organization of work. Little is known, however, about how those job preferences are formed. We study how...Read more...

Lea Cassar, Maria Cotofan, Robert Dur and Stephan Meier

1 March 2023

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management :
Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

We study the effect of urban density on the exposure of city dwellers to air pollution using data from the United States urban system. Exploiting geological features to instrument for density, we find an economically and...Read more...

Felipe Carozzi and Sefi Roth

1 March 2023

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International Review of Economics and Finance :
Bank default risk propagation along supply chains: Evidence from the U.K.

How does banks' default risk affect the probability of default of non-financial businesses? The literature has focused on the banks' direct corporate customers. It fails to consider the role of supply chain relationships...Read more...

Ali Kabiri, Vlad Manole, Isabelle Roland and Mariana Spatareanu

1 March 2023

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Regional Science and Urban Economics:
Working from home and corporate real estate

We examine how corporate real estate market participants adjust to the take-off of teleworking. We develop an index for the exposure of counties to teleworking in France by combining teleworking capacity with incentives ...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud, Jean Benoit Eymeoud, Thomas Garcia and Dorian Henricot

1 March 2023

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Regional Studies:
Forthcoming
Inclusive innovation in cities: from buzzword to policy

'Inclusive innovation' has become an increasingly important subnational policy agenda. This paper reviews this agenda, critiques its current usage and presents a new framework for how the concept can be applied by city g...Read more...

Neil Lee

24 February 2023

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International Economic Review:
2022 KLEIN LECTURE PARENTAL EDUCATION AND INVENTION: THE FINNISH ENIGMA

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the United States but also in Finland, which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45 M Finnish individu...Read more...

Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Ari Hyytinen and Otto Toivanen

16 February 2023

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Journal of International Economics:
Forthcoming
Sequentially exporting products across countries

Exploiting disaggregated data on French exporters, we show that firms expand their product scope and geographical presence sequentially. This process of internationalization is uneven over time, exhibiting more volatilit...Read more...

Facundo Albornoz, Hector F. Calvo Pardo, Gregory Corcos and Emanuel Ornelas

13 February 2023

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Labour Economics:
Labour Market Shocks and Parental Investments during the Covid-19 Pandemic

This paper studies spill-over effects of parental labour market shocks at two time points in the Covid-19 crisis: right after its onset in April 2020, and in January 2021. We use rich data from the UK to look at the cons...Read more...

Claudia Hupkau, Ingo Isphording, Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

8 February 2023

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Urban Studies:
Progressive cities: Urban-rural polarisation of social values and economic development around the world

In contrast to the conservative values of rural populations, cities are often seen as bulwarks of more tolerant, liberal and progressive values. This urban-rural divide in values has become one of the major fault lines i...Read more...

Neil Lee, Davide Luca, Jonas Stein and Javier Terrero-Davila

2 February 2023

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American Economic Review :
Technology Gaps, Trade and Income

This paper quantifies the contribution of technology gaps to international income inequality. I develop an endogenous growth model where cross-country differences in R&D efficiency and cross-industry differences in innov...Read more...

Thomas Sampson

1 February 2023

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European Journal of Social Psychology:
Worldview defence and self-determination theory explain the return of racial voting: Evidence from the 2016 US election

We use self-determination (SDT) and worldview defence theories (WDT) to explicate the psychological roots of identitarian voting in recent US, UK and EU elections. We test our theory using the 2016 US election as a case ...Read more...

Robert Breunig, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Mark Fabian

1 February 2023

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