Cox et al. (2023) investigated the acoustic features of infant-directed speech. They used Bayesian meta-analyses to investigate five acoustic features with data from 88 studies. In the present robustness reproduction, we first check if the reported results are reproducible based on the data and...

Energy cultures, broadly defined as shared beliefs, practices, and material preferences that shape energy-related behaviors, provide a useful framework for investigating consumption differences across population groups. We investigate how households' energy demand behavior differ across the...

Can an ethically justifiable decision-making process be facilitated through a machine moral agent in the form of advice? The premise revolves around decision votes explicitly solicited from human individuals and based on scenarios such as the Trolley Problem, reflected in data and processed...

Theory and evidence from the behavioral science literature suggest that the widespread and rising use of lingua francas in the workplace may impact the ethical decision-making of individuals who must use foreign languages at work. We test the impact of foreign language usage on individuals’...

This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches. We use administrative data from the city of Barcelona for the whole universe of applications to the...

This paper examines the causal impact of a large-scale Turkish language training program on the academic performance, school participation, and mental well-being of Syrian refugee children in T¨urkiye. Using rich administrative data and a staggered difference-in-differences design, we find that...

We estimate the effect of speaking Spanish as an additional language (SAL)—as opposed to speaking it as a native—on education, labor, and wellbeing outcomes among Mexico's indigenous ethno-linguistic minorities. Controls are appropriately comparable indigenous individuals who speak only...

We study whether large language models (LLMs) can generate suitable financial advice and which LLM features are associated with higher-quality advice. To this end, we elicit portfolio recommendations from 32 LLMs for 64 investor profiles, which differ in their risk preferences, home country,...

Central bank communication has become a crucial tool for steering the monetary policy stance and shaping the outlook of market participants. Traditionally, analyzing central bank communication required substantial human effort, expertise, and resources, making the process time-consuming. The...

We exploit the 1990-2000 inflow of Yugoslav refugees to Geneva to examine two understudied yet policy-relevant integration mechanisms for refugee pupils: language support classes, provided prior to integration into regular classes, and sorting based on academic ability within regular classes. We...

When communicating numeric estimates with policymakers, journalists, or the general public, experts must choose between using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to study whether experts strategically use language to communicate numeric estimates in order to persuade receivers....

Die explorative Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Integration ukrainischer Kriegsflüchtlinge in Arbeitsmarkt und Arbeitswelt in Deutschland. Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine sind oft ungewöhnlich hochqualifiziert und überwiegend weiblich, sie unterliegen auch weniger restriktiven Bedingungen als...

Although there is now a substantial body of literature exploring the effects of language diversity in international management contexts, little attention has been paid to the ethical dimensions of language diversity at work. This conceptual paper draws on the concept of epistemic injustice in...

When communicating numeric estimates with policymakers, journalists, or the general public, experts must choose between using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to study whether experts strategically use language to communicate numeric estimates in order to persuade receivers....

The present survey is a way to gauge whether citizens agree with the European objectives towards multilingualism and if they are progressing in that direction. The survey addresses the language knowledge of Europeans, covering skills, use of languages and attitudes towards languages.

It is with great pleasure that we present this eighth edition of the Multilingual Dictionary of New Words, a compilation of neologisms discovered and submitted by translators from each of the European Parliament's twenty-four language units. The project first saw the light of day in 2010, and...

It is with great pleasure that we present this eighth edition of the Multilingual Dictionary of New Words, a compilation of neologisms discovered and submitted by translators from each of the European Parliament's twenty-four language units. The project first saw the light of day in 2010, and...

The European Union aspires to be united in diversity. The defence, promotion and valuing of linguistic diversity plays a fundamental role in this quest. Languages are incredible tools with which we think, learn, relate to the world and communicate with others. They are also embedded in our...

This exhibition seeks to show how translation, both written and spoken (interpreting), has been a crucial means for communication in countless situations and moments throughout the history of Spain and Europe, thus enabling ideas to circulate between cultures and civilisations. Given the scant...

This exhibition seeks to show how translation, both written and spoken (interpreting), has been a crucial means for communication in countless situations and moments throughout the history of Spain and Europe, thus enabling ideas to circulate between cultures and civilisations. Given the scant...

Are national borders an impediment to online collaboration in the knowledge economy? Unlike in goods trade, knowledge workers can collaborate fully virtually, such that border effects might be eliminated. Here we study collaboration patterns of some 144,000 European developers on the largest...

This study explores the impact of IPO prospectus language on the prevalent underpricing in European IPOs, using natural language processing techniques. Specifically, it investigates whether a relationship exists between litigious, negative, positive, and uncertain language, as well as the degree...