Economics working papers

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2025-06: On Bessel’s Correction: Unbiased Sample Variance, the “Bariance,†and a Novel Runtime-Optimized Estimator

Felix Reichel

2025-05: Gendered labour market dynamics across generations: Parental and local determinants of the daugther-son pay gap

René Böheim, David Pichler and Christine Zulehner

2025-04: Earnings volatility in Austria

René Böheim and David Pichler

2025-03: Evaluating hospital performance

Gerald Pruckner and Thomas Schober

2025-02: Wage Setting in Multiproduct Firms

Jackie M.L. Chan, Michael Irlacher, Michael Koch and Luca Macedoni

2025-01: Hospital Crowding and Patient Outcomes

Wolfgang Frimmel, Felix Glaser and Gerald Pruckner

2024-15: Monopsony: Wages, wage bargaining and job requirements

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Jasmin Anderlik, Malika Jumaniyozova and Bernhard Schmidpeter

2024-14: Socio-Economic Inequality in Mortality and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Cancer Patients

Wolfgang Frimmel and Felix Glaser

2024-13: Educational hypogamy is associated with a smaller child penalty on women's earnings

Nadia Steiber, Lara Lebedinski, Bernd Liedl and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

2024-12: Sick Happens: The Effect of Worker Health Shocks on Coworkers' Employment and Health Behavior

Wolfgang Frimmel and Rene Wiesinger

2024-11: When performance melts away: Heat causes mental errors in high-stakes competitions

Mario Lackner and Hendrik Sonnabend

2024-10: How effective is emissions pricing? The role of firm-product-level adjustment

Karin Mayr-Dorn

2024-09: The labor and health economics of breast cancer

Alexander Ahammer, Gerald Pruckner and Flora Stiftinger

2024-08: The Evolution of Child-Related Gender Inequality in Germany and The Role of Family Policies, 1960-2018

Ulrich Glogowsky, Emanuel Hansen, Dominik Sachs and Holger Lüthen

2024-07: Supply-side drug policy, polydrug use, and the economic effects of withdrawal symptoms

Alexander Ahammer and Analisa Packham

2024-06: The Napoleon complex revisited

Mario Lackner

2024-05: Development and Sector Labor Income Shares

Daniel Schäfer

2024-04: When women take over: Physician gender and health care provision

Gerald Pruckner, Flora Stiftinger and Katrin Zocher

2024-03: The COVID-19 pandemic and health care utilization: Evidence from Austrian register data

Wolfgang Frimmel and Gerald Pruckner

2024-02: The Incidence of Workplace Pensions: Evidence from the UK's Automatic Enrollment Mandate

Rachel Scarfe, Daniel Schäfer and Thomas Sulka

2024-01: Life After Loss: The Causal Effect of Parental Death on Daughters' Fertility

Felix Glaser and Rene Wiesinger

2023-17: When protection becomes exploitation: The impact of firing costs on present-biased employees

Florian Englmaier, Matthias Fahn, Ulrich Glogowsky and Marco Schwarz

2023-16: Do co-ethnic commuters disseminate labor market information? Evidence from geocoded register data

Johan Klaesson, Özge Öner and Dieter Pennerstorfer

2023-15: The causal effect of agritourism on farm survival

Matthias Firgo and Dieter Pennerstorfer

2023-14: Labor Market News and Expectations about Jobs & Earnings

Bernhard Schmidpeter

2023-13: The bond agio premium

Jochen Güntner and Benjamin Karner

2023-12: The parenthood penalty in mental health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark

Alexander Ahammer, Ulrich Glogowsky, Martin Halla and Timo Hener

2023-11: Not all oil types are alike

Jochen Güntner, Michael Irlacher and Peter Öhlinger

2023-10: Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Parag Mahajan and Bernhard Schmidpeter

2023-09: The decline of manufacturing employment and the rise of the far-right in Austria

Karim Bekhtiar

2023-08: Outside options and worker motivation

Alexander Ahammer, Matthias Fahn and Flora Stiftinger

2023-07: The Forces Behind Social Unrest: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Mario Lackner, Uwe Sunde and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

2023-06: Non-Common Priors, Incentives, and Promotions: The Role of Learning

Matthias Fahn and Nicolas Klein

2023-05: Value Design in Optimal Mechanisms

Anja Prummer and Francesco Nava

2023-04: Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war

Karin Mayr-Dorn, Gaia Narciso, Anh Dang and Hien Phan

2023-03: Why Do Platforms Charge Proportional Fees? Commitment and Seller Participation

Johannes Muthers and Sebastian Wismer

2023-02: Gender Homophily, Collaboration, and Output

Lorenzo Ductor and Anja Prummer

2023-01: Disability Insurance Screening and Worker Outcomes

Alexander Ahammer and Analisa Packham

2022-15: A Hard Pill to Swallow? Parental Health Shocks and Children's Mental Health

Felix Glaser and Gerald Pruckner

2022-14: Joint procurement by heterogeneous buyers

Isabel Helmrath, Matthias Hunold and Johannes Muthers

2022-13: Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital

Esther Arenas-Arroyo and Bernhard Schmidpeter

2022-12: The role of sex segregation in the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany

Doris Weichselbaumer and Juliane Ransmayr

2022-11: The older the wiser? Determinants of misbehaviour in team contests

Mario Lackner and Hendrik Sonnabend

2022-10: Banking on Snow: Bank Capital, Risk, and Employment

Simon Baumgartner, Alex Stomper, Thomas Schober and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

2022-09: Farm exits and competition on the land market: Evidence from spatially explicit data

Dieter Pennerstorfer

2022-08: More caseworkers shorten unemployment durations and save costs

René Böheim, Rainer Eppel and Helmut Mahringer

2022-07: Robotization, Internal Migration and Rural Depopulation in Austria

Karim Bekhtiar

2022-06: The Chronology of Brexit and UK Monetary Policy

Martin Geiger and Jochen Güntner

2022-05: Informal Incentives and Labor Markets

Matthias Fahn and Takeshi Murooka

2022-04: Present Bias in the Labor Market--When it Pays to be Naive

Matthias Fahn and Regina Seibel