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Under standard conditions in the Colombian coffee sector, the benefits of producing better coffee are not passed on to farmers, weakening their incentives to invest in higher-quality production. However, when a large int...Read more...
Mario Bernasconi, Patrick Farrell, Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Eric Verhoogen and Nicolas de Roux
25 February 2026
We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the short workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male emp...Read more...
Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin and Barbara Petrongolo
17 November 2011