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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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Jobless and Stuck: youth Unemployment and Covid-19 in India

Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli examine youth unemployment and inactivity in India, where the economic contraction from the pandemic was solely responsible for reversing the trend of decades of declining global inequality. Read more...
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Does homeownership reduce crime? A radical housing reform from the UK

Richard Disney, John Gathergood, Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi study the impact of the Right to Buy reform, which increased the UK homeownership rate between the 1980s and 1990s, on crime. Read more...

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Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization:
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Is having an expert "friend" enough? An analysis of consumer switching behavior in mobile telephony

We present novel evidence from a large panel of UK consumers who receive personalized reminders from a specialist price-comparison website about the precise amount they could save by switching to their best-suited altern...Read more...

Christos Genakos, Costas Roumanias and Tommaso Valletti

2 August 2023

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Journal of Public Economics:
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Estimating students' valuation for college experiences

Quantifying the consumption value of college - the utility students derive from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities - has been challenging. We leverage the COVID-19 shock to elicit students' intended li...Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob French and Basit Zafar

1 August 2023

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European Economic Review:
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Adolescent development and the math gender gap

This paper investigates the determinants of the gap between girls and boys in mathematics performance (the 'math gap'). We are particularly interested in the role played by pubertal development in explaining the widening...Read more...

Cristina Borra, Maria Iacovou and Almudena Sevilla

21 July 2023

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Journal of Management Studies:
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Business Groups and Export Performance: The Role of Coordination Failures and Institutional Configurations

We explore the nature of business groups (BGs) and their affiliates in emerging markets through the lens of the coordination failures associated with economic development. We propose that BGs develop distinct economic an...Read more...

Michael Carney, Saul Estrin, Zhixiang Liang and Daniel Shapiro

4 July 2023

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Oxford Economic Papers:
Economic insecurity and political preferences

Economic insecurity has attracted growing attention, but there is no consensus as to its definition. We characterize a class of individual economic-insecurity measures based on the time profile of economic resources. We ...Read more...

Walter Bossert, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

3 July 2023

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The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization:
The dynamics of the debate about gay rights: evidence from US newspapers

Changing attitudes are the result of a battle for hearts and minds in which agents for and against change try to persuade others. We know very little about this process. We develop a methodology for measuring the intensi...Read more...

Alan Manning and Paolo Masella

1 July 2023

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Scientific Reports:
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Machine learning assists in increasing the time resolution of X-ray computed tomography applied to mineral precipitation in porous media

Many subsurface engineering technologies or natural processes cause porous medium properties, such as porosity or permeability, to evolve in time. Studying and understanding such processes on the pore scale is strongly a...Read more...

Holger Class, Johannes Hommel, Dongwon Lee, Joseph Piotrowski, Holger Steeb and Felix Weinhardt

29 June 2023

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IMF Economic Review:
Forthcoming
Jobless and stuck: youth unemployment and Covid-19 in India

Youth unemployment is a big challenge in developing economies, but there is a limited understanding of the dynamics underlying the rise in unemployment among young workers. This article examines youth unemployment and in...Read more...

Swati Dhingra and Fjolla Kondirolli

27 June 2023

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The Economic Journal:
Forthcoming
Does homeownership reduce crime? A radical housing reform from the UK

"Right to Buy" (RTB), a large-scale natural experiment whereby incumbent tenants in public housing could buy properties at heavily-subsidised prices, increased the UK homeownership rate by over 10 percentage points betwe...Read more...

Richard Disney, John Gathergood, Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi

5 June 2023

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Journal of Urban Economics:
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The long shadow of local decline: birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK

Does growing up in a high-economic adversity area matter for individual economic, cultural, and political views? Despite a significant focus upon the effect of birthplace on economic outcomes, there is less evidence on h...Read more...

Neil Lee, Davide Luca and Andrew McNeil

31 May 2023

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Labour Economics:
Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcome...Read more...

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

26 May 2023

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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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Applied Economics Letters:
Forthcoming
Telework and productivity: insights from an original survey

Using a unique dataset of approximately 1,400 French manufacturing firms, this study provides insights into their utilization of telework in 2019. Our findings reveal firms that engaged in telework benefit from a Total F...Read more...

Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette and Simon Drapala

7 May 2023

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Journal of Human Resources :
Where versus what: college value-added and returns to field of study in further education

We use administrative records on educational and labor market trajectories to estimate the value-added of English further education colleges in terms of educational and labor market outcomes and earnings returns to diffe...Read more...

Esteban M. Aucejo, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

1 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:
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'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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Journal of Economic Geography:
Left-behind versus unequal places: interpersonal inequality, economic decline and the rise of populism in the USA and Europe

Economic change over the past 20 years has rendered many individuals and territories vulnerable, leading to greater interpersonal and interterritorial inequality. This rising inequality is seen as a root cause of populis...Read more...

Neil Lee, Andres Rodriguez-Pose and Javier Terrero-Davila

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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Health Economics:
Forthcoming
Risk aversion and Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy

We here investigate the role of risk aversion in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The theoretical effect is ambiguous, as both COVID-19 infection and vaccination side-effects involve probabilistic elements. In large-scale dat...Read more...

Liyousew G Borga, Andrew E. Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Anthony Lepinteur and Claus Vogele

6 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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