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Abortion and mental health : short-term distress, long-term recovery

Abrahamsson, Sara; Barschkett, Mara - 2026

Abortion remains a highly contested issue in women's health. Using Norwegian administrative data from a setting with legal and accessible abortion, we estimate the causal effect of abortion on mental health. Exploiting variation in age-at-abortion within a stacked difference-in-differences...

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The consequences of cellphone restrictions in classrooms

Shi, Ying; Villarroel, Francisco - 2026

Schools are increasingly restricting cellphones worldwide amid concerns about achievement and mental health, yet causal evidence on school-level bans remains mixed. We examine cellphone restrictions in Chile before the pandemic, where teacher discretion over cellphone use generated...

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Parents' perceptions of occupational fit

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

We study how adolescents' second-order beliefs about their parents' occupational preferences shape gendered career aspirations. In a consequential early-career choice setting, we combine a parental choice experiment with a randomized salience intervention among students. Parents give gendered...

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Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Rutnam, Daphne - 2026

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The trade-off between breastfeeding and returning to work : the role of workplace constraints

Aftab, Fari; Della Giusta, Marina; Jewell, Sarah; … - 2026

Decisions about whether and for how long to breastfeed are shaped by mothers' ability to combine care with paid work under institutional and workplace constraints. While breastfeeding provides welldocumented benefits for mothers and children, continuation after return to work may be difficult....

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Consequential ethical dilemmas : the Payoff-Trolley game

Dickinson, David L. - 2026

This paper introduces a novel Payoff-Trolley dilemma task, where other participants' payoffs were at stake on the main or sidetrack in a trolley dilemma. Different scenarios varied the number of "others' payoffs" on the sidetrack and main track in ways that helped identify more clearly immoral...

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Earning while learning : how to run batched bandit experiments

Kemper, Jan; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2026

Researchers typically collect experimental data sequentially, allowing early outcome observations and adaptive treatment assignment to reduce exposure to inferior treatments. This article reviews multiarmed-bandit adaptive experimental designs that balance exploration and exploitation. Because...

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How job attractiveness is shaped by employer-provided childcare arrangements

El Haj, Morien; Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van … - 2026

In tight labour markets, where employers compete not only on wages but also on amenities such as job family friendliness, employer-provided childcare arrangements serve as a powerful tool to attract and retain working parents. Yet little causal evidence exists on how employees evaluate such...

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Who shirks at work? : an application of machine learning to time use data

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2026

Worker productivity depends not only on hours worked, but also on how work time is actually used, and time-use evidence shows that non-work at work is non-trivial. This paper provides a data-driven characterization of shirking, and studies which observable characteristics best predict shirking...

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Mental models of high school success

Hübsch, Theresa; Mahlstedt, Robert; Pinger, Pia; … - 2026

Using surveys with Danish students transitioning to secondary education, we study mental models of how gender and parental education shape academic performance. Students hold heterogeneous beliefs about performance gaps by gender and parental background, which appear to be shaped by...

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The diffusion of Artificial Intelligence across firms : evidence from Europe

Garbers, Julio; Gregory, Terry - 2026

We develop a novel firm-level indicator of Artificial Intelligence adoption in Europe (MAP-AI) by extracting information on AI usage from more than three million firm websites from Belgium, France, Germany, and Luxembourg (2016-2024) using a Large Language Model. The indicator captures realized...

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