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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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The Review of Economics and Statistics:
Forthcoming
Data-intensive innovation and the state: evidence from AI firms in China

Developing AI technology requires data. In many domains, government data far exceeds in magnitude and scope data collected by the private sector, and AI firms often gain access to such data when providing services to the...Read more...

Martin Beraja, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman

13 August 2022

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Labour Economics:
How Did Safety-Net Reform Affect the Education of Adolescents from Low-Income Families?

Roughly 25 years ago, the US safety net was substantially reformed. Here we ask how those reforms affected the educational attainment of youths who were teens at the time those reforms took place. We take a difference-in...Read more...

Jacob Bastian, Luorao Bian and Jeffrey Grogger

1 August 2022

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics:
The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages

We study the effects of becoming a supplier to multinational corporations (MNCs) using tax data tracking firm-to-firm transactions in Costa Rica. Event study estimates reveal that domestic firms experience strong and per...Read more...

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

1 August 2022

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The Economic Journal:
Forthcoming
Teacher effectiveness and classroom composition: Understanding Match Effects in the Classroom

This paper provides evidence of match effects in the teacher labour market by considering how teacher effectiveness varies by classroom composition. We combine random assignment of teachers with rich measures of teaching...Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Patrick Coate, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter

27 July 2022

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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics:
Neighbors' Effects on University Enrollment

This paper provides causal evidence that close neighbors signigicantly influence potential applicants' decision to attend university. I create a unique dataset combining detailed geographic information and individual edu...Read more...

Andrés Barrios Fernández

1 July 2022

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Economica:
Information Provision and Postgraduate Studies

This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that...Read more...

Jan Berkes, Peter Frauke, C. Katharina Spiess and Felix Weinhardt

1 July 2022

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Journal of Human Capital:
Forthcoming
Teachers and the Gender Gap in Reading Achievement

Boys persistently lag behind girls in English/language arts. We find that heterogeneity in teachers’ relative boy-specific value added could explain a large proportion of this gap. We exploit multifaceted measures of e...Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, Sean Kelly and Zachary Mozenter

24 June 2022

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Economica:
Men are from Mars, and Women Too: A Bayesian Meta-analysis of Overconfidence Experiments

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under-representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h...Read more...

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

1 June 2022

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The Review of Income and Wealth:
Pandemic Policy and Life Satisfaction in Europe

We use data from the COME-HERE longitudinal survey collected by the University of Luxembourg to assess the effects of the policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on life satisfaction in France, Germany, Italy, Spain an...Read more...

Andrew E. Clark and Anthony Lepinteur

1 June 2022

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International Journal of Human Computer Studies:
Multitasking while driving: A time use study of commuting knowledge workers to assess current and future uses

Commuting has enormous impact on individuals, families, organizations, and society. Advances in vehicle automation may help workers employ the time spent commuting in productive work-tasks or wellbeing activities. To ach...Read more...

Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz

1 June 2022

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Journal of the European Economic Association:
The Twin Peaks of the Export Intensity Distribution

Received wisdom suggests that most exporters sell most of their output domestically. We show, however, that the distribution of export intensity varies substantially across countries and is often bimodal, displaying “twi...Read more...

Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

1 June 2022

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Journal of Economic Perspectives:
Should we insure workers or jobs during recessions?

What is the most efficient way to respond to recessions in the labor market? To this question, policymakers on the two sides of the pond gave diametrically opposed answers during the COVID-19 crisis. In the United States...Read more...

Giulia Giupponi, Camille Landais and Alice Lapeyre

1 May 2022

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Journal of Urban Economics:
The economics of skyscrapers: A synthesis

We document that skyscraper growth since the end of the 19th century has been driven by a reduction in the cost of height, increasing urbanization, and rising incomes. These stylized facts guide us in developing a compet...Read more...

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Jason Barr

1 May 2022

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The Economic Journal:
Gravity and Heterogeneous Trade Cost Elasticities

How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this ...Read more...

Natalie Chen and Dennis Novy

1 May 2022

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Annual Review of Economics:
The Impact of Health Information and Communication Technology on Clinical Quality, Productivity, and Workers

The adoption of health information and communication technology (HICT) has surged over the past two decades. We survey the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivit...Read more...

Ari Bronsoler, Joseph Doyle and John Van Reenen

4 April 2022

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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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Labour Economics:
Residential mobility and unemployment in the UK

The UK has suffered from persistent spatial differences in unemployment rates for many decades. A low responsiveness of internal migration to unemployment is often argued to be an important cause of this problem. This pa...Read more...

Monica Langella and Alan Manning

1 April 2022

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Journal of Population Economics:
Quantity and quality of childcare and children’s educational outcomes

Policy-makers wanting to support child development can choose to adjust the quantity or quality of publicly funded universal pre-school. To assess the impact of such changes, we estimate the effects of an increase in fre...Read more...

Jo Blanden, Emilia Del Bono, Kirstine Hansen and Birgitta Rabe

1 April 2022

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Journal of Population Economics:
In medio stat victus: Labor Demand Effects of an Increase in the Retirement Age

After falling for four decades, statutory retirement ages are increasing in most OECD countries. The labor market adjustment to these reforms has not yet been thoroughly investigated by the literature. We draw on a major...Read more...

Tito Boeri, Pietro Garibaldi and Espen R. Moen

1 April 2022

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Economic Policy:
Unsafe Jobs, Labour Market Risk and Social Protection 

This paper proposes a new classification of occupations based on the extent to which they put workers at risk of being infected by aerial-transmitted viruses. We expand on previous work that mainly focused on the identif...Read more...

Gaetano Basso, Tito Boeri, Alessandro Caiumi and Marco Paccagnella

1 April 2022

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