Showing papers in "European Economic Review in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 1099 parents in Germany found that while low-achieving students on average reduced their daily learning time by about half, the reduction was significantly larger for low achievers (4.1h) than for high-achievers (3.7h).

TL;DR: This article used worker-level data on the task content of jobs to measure the ability to work-from-home (WFH) in developing countries, and found that the ability of WFH is low in developing country and document significant heterogeneity across and within occupations, and across worker characteristics.

TL;DR: This article found that clock towns were 34-40% more likely to have a movable type printing press by 1500 and that the printing press helped facilitate the spread of the Protestant Reformation.

TL;DR: The top quartile of the income distribution accounts for almost half of the pandemic-related decline in aggregate consumption, with expenditure for this group falling much more than income as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effect of publication and misspecification biases on the reported results and found that the coefficients are systematically influenced by the choice of data, numeraire currency, and estimation method.

TL;DR: This paper proposed a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation and showed that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving low-skilled wages and without creating jobs for lowskilled workers.

TL;DR: The authors studied the role of bots in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and found that the degree of bots' influence depends on whether bots provide information consistent with humans' priors.

TL;DR: The authors studied the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence in 11 countries with different exante incidence of domestic violence (DV) and lockdown intensity, and observed that the positive impact on DV is a widespread phenomenon, the effect in developed countries is more than twice as strong as in Latin American countries.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the impact of sanctions on French exporting firms and found that firms that depend more on trade finance instruments are more strongly affected, while prior experience in the sanctioned country considerably softens the blow of sanctions, and firms can be partly immune to the sanctions effect if they are specialized in serving crisis countries.

TL;DR: In this article, a number of developments and trends in the literature on economic sanctions are reviewed, and the authors argue that moving toward a better understanding of the causes and consequences of economic sanctions requires a much tighter integration of concepts from political science and economics and a more extensive interdisciplinary collaboration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impacts of large increases in energy prices on socioeconomic and environmental performance of French manufacturing establishments over the period of 1997-2015 and identify energy price effects using a shift-share instrument for establishment-specific prices.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that the widening of the gender pay gap arises from differences in career advances within the same establishment or from differential gains from job-to-job moves across establishments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantified the finance uncertainty multiplier (i.e., the magnifying effect of the real impact of uncertainty shocks due to credit frictions) by relying on two historical events related to the US economy.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of Chinese official projects on political participation in 54 African countries between 2000 and 2014 using 50'×'50'km cells as the unit of analysis, and matched data on the occurrence of protests and other forms of political participation to georeferenced data on projects financed by the Chinese government.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided the first large-scale evidence on the impact of industrial robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries and found that robot adoption increases both male and female earnings but also increases the gender gap.

TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model involving climate change is proposed for a systematic analysis of the social cost of carbon (SCC), which measures the externalities incurred in emitting one ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of restricting access to one of these public programs, health care, on mortality rates of undocumented immigrants were investigated. But, the results showed that this selective migration can only account for 3.45% of the mortality effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of inequality, fiscal policy, and COVID19 restrictions in a model of economic slack with potentially rigid capital operating costs are evaluated, and it is shown that higher inequality is associated with larger restriction multipliers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide comprehensive evidence on the consequences of automation risk on the career of unemployed workers and the mitigating role of labor market training, provided training counteracts the negative impact of automation on the job finding probability.

TL;DR: The authors used matched employer-employee data to study the evolution of earnings, hours, and wages, and distinguish "stayers" who remain with the same employer from workers who transition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirical evidence that prices do not increase in response to a positive government spending shock, instead, the response of prices is flat or even negative, and they show that the introduction of variable technology utilization can enable an otherwise standard New Keynesian model to account for their empirical findings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the empirical framework by Peters et al. (2017) to include both RD and proportional subsidy and show that RD is more effective than proportional subsidy in increasing the expected firm value and innovation probability.

TL;DR: This paper found that female participants leave significantly more omitted questions than males when there is a reward for omitted questions, which hurt female performance as measured by the final score and position in the ranking.

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TL;DR: The authors showed that up to March 9, the occurrence of new cases in euro area countries had a sizeable and persistent effect on 10-year sovereign bond spreads relative to Germany: 10 new confirmed cases per million people were accompanied by an immediate spread increase of 0.03 percentage points (ppt).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a consumer survey in five European countries in summer 2020, after the release of the first wave of lockdown restrictions, and document the underlying reasons for households' reduction in consumption in five key sectors: tourism, hospitality, services, retail and public transports.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how fertility time horizons impact women's investment choices and found that following the policy change women complete more college and graduate education, which contributed to better labor market outcomes, reducing the gender gap in career achievement.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether downward wage rigidity (DWR) is the source of the flattening wage Phillips curve and the lack of wage inflation in the four advanced economies: Japan, the euro area, the UK and the US.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a partial equilibrium model of international trade with cross-border production and showed that higher participation in global value chains reduces the elasticities of the exchange rate pass-through to export prices and export volumes.

TL;DR: The authors assess empirically whether the tone of FOMC statements contains useful information for financial market participants and explore the nature of the information conveyed by central bank tone using computational linguistics.