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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits
In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major ... -
Capital structure and financial flexibility: Expectations of future shocks
(Elsevier, 2019-03-25) -
Capturing Macroeconomic Tail Risks with Bayesian Vector Autoregressions
Many studies using quantile regressions (QRs) have found that downside risk to output growth varies more than upside risk. We show that Bayesian vector autoregressions (BVARs) with stochastic volatility are able to capture ... -
Categorization and Coordination
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CEO Turnover and Volatility under Long-Term Employment Contracts
(2019-01-01)© 2019 Cambridge University Press. We study the role of the contractual time horizon of CEOs for CEO turnover and corporate policies. Using hand-collected data on 3,954 fixed-term CEO contracts, we show that remaining time ... -
Changes in the quantity and quality of time use during the COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK: Who is the most affected?
We investigated changes in the quantity and quality of time spent on various activities in response to the COVID-19-induced national lockdowns in the UK. We examined effects both in the first national lockdown (May 2020) ... -
Comment on “Trade integration in Colombia: A dynamic general equilibrium study with new exporter dynamics” by George Alessandria and Oscar Avila
(2020-01-01)© 2020 This paper provides a series of comments aimed mainly at addressing the empirical relevance of the proposed interpretation of the mechanism and partly at considering the possible interaction between the trade and ... -
Community policing does not build citizen trust in police or reduce crime in the Global South.
(2021-11-26)Is it possible to reduce crime without exacerbating adversarial relationships between police and citizens? Community policing is a celebrated reform with that aim, which is now adopted on six continents. However, the ... -
Competition and the role of group identity
(2019-06)