The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to education, with school closures affecting over one billion children. These closures, aimed at reducing virus transmission, resulted in significant learning losses, particularly in mathematics and science. Using United States data from TIMSS,...

Tourism influences local economies through direct, indirect, and induced effects. Using novel firm-to-firm transaction data, we shed light on tourism's indirect effects. We find that tourism firms primarily source inputs locally or from the capital, with limited purchases from distant, poorer...

This paper investigates the effect of herd behavior, or information cascades, on the willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19. We use the 2021/2022 wave of the European Social Survey combined with data from the organization Our World in Data and measure the herding behavior as the change in...

The aim of this paper is to understand whether what has been labelled as "twin transition", at first as a policy flagship, endogenously emerges as a new technological trajectory stemming by the convergence of the green and digital technologies. Embracing an evolutionary approach to technology,...

This study investigates the medical condition of Australian children aged 4 to 14 years and the impact of prenatal and early-life conditions on these health conditions, using a large national data set (n=4,122) with 15 years of follow-up. Consistent with the developmental origins of health and...

Using a large-scale incentivized trust game experiment conducted across all 27 EU member states, we find that sexual minorities exhibit greater prosocial behaviour toward another vulnerable group but not toward an unknown counterpart, compared to heterosexual individuals. The observed effects...

When economic crises destabilize labor markets, they offer unique opportunities to explore welfare dynamics and the interplay between partnership formation and social assistance. Using data from Sweden's 1990s economic crisis, characterized by high unemployment, expanding budget deficit, and a...

This paper analyzes how interaction effects can be consistently estimated un- der economically plausible assumptions in linear panel models with a fixed T - dimension. We advocate for a correlated interaction term estimator (CITE) and show that it is consistent under conditions that are not...

Fertility rates have declined dramatically across almost all highincome countries over the past decades. This has raised concerns about future economic prospects. Indeed, fully- and semi-endogenous growth models imply that a shrinking workforce would lead to declining income growth and perhaps...

This paper explores informality in a high income country among women who, at least legally, can take on formal jobs. Specifically, we examine the determinants of paid domestic work in Israel through the lens of existing theoretical frameworks of informality. Using rich administrative data, we...