The Bath Economics Research Papers Series is published by the University of Bath's Department of Economics.

Featured research papers

Political Posts on X could Harm Academics' Credibility

• Press release featuring working paper 108/24 (forthcoming) by E. Alabrese, F. Capozza & P. Garg

School Attendance on Fridays

• Press release featuring working paper 98/23 by J. Clifton-Sprigg & J. James

Stricter Drink Drive Limits

• Press release featuring working paper 80/21 by M. Francesoni & J. James

2024 papers

• 107/24: Masi, O & Santantonio, C (2024) Overstretched: Financial Distress and Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S
• 106/24: Han, K (2024) Protected or Postponed? Dynamics of Deforestation in Protected and Non-Protected Areas
• 105/24: Rivas, J. (2024) Contest with a Jury
• 104/24: Franke, J & Papadopoulos, A (2024) Strategic Reciprocity in a Contest with Large Stakes
• 103/24: Bajoori, E. & Wirtz, J. (2024) Optimal Delegated Search with Learning
• 102/24: Bajoori, E., Kreusser, L. M., Peeters, R, & Wolk, L. (2024) Risk Aversion in First-Price Security-Bid Auctions Published in: Operations Research Letters, Vol. 55, July 2024, 107121 doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2024.107121
• 101/24: Accardo, P, De Feo, G & De Luca, G (2024) The Good Connections: A Network Analysis of Organized Crime, Patronage, and Local Elites
• 100/24: Alabrese, E. & Fetzer, T. (2024) Opinion Polls, Turnout and the Demand for Safe Seats
• 99/24: Meier, M & Perea, A (2024) Forward Induction in a Backward Inductive Manner

2023 papers

• 98/23: Clifton-Sprigg, J. & James, J. (2023) The "Friday Effect": School Attendance over the Week Published in: British Educational Research Journal, 10 September 2024 doi.org/10.1002/berj.4066
• 97/23 Clifton-Sprigg, J, Fichera, E & Tudor, S (2023) Maternity Leave Take-up in UK Academia. Why are They Hurrying Back?
• 96/23: Mishra, A & Sharma, S (2023) Breaking Glass-Ceiling for Women using Vertical Ties
• 95/23: Dutta, I & Mishra, A (2023) Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty: A Unified Framework

2022 papers

• 94/22: Jo, A. & Karydas, C. (2022) Firm Heterogeneity, Industry Dynamics and Climate Policy
• 93/22: Martin, C. & Okolo, M. (2022) Heterogeneity in the UK Labour Market: Using Machine Learning To Test Macroeconomic Models
• 92/22: Ellington, M., Martin, C. & Wang, B. (2022) Revisiting Real Wage Rigidity Published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 56 (2-3), p. 613-626. doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13056
• 91/22: Garcia-Lazaro, A., Martin, C. & Okolo, M. (2022) Education, Informality and the Pandemic: Explaining the Unequal Impacts of Covid-19 in the Mexican Labour Market
• 90/22: Carr, J., Clifton-Sprigg, J., James, J. & Vujic, S. (2022) Hate in the Time of COVID-19: Racial Crimes against East Asians
• 89/22: Schaefer, A. & Stünzi, A (2022) Announcing a Green New Deal: The Role of Policy Signals for Stimulating Entrepreneurship
• 88/22: Delaney, J. & Devereux, P. (2022) Rank Effects in Education: What do we know so far? Published in: In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_364-1
• 87/22: Chrysanthou, G. (2022) Two-step Parametric Estimation of Binary Treatment Effects in the Presence of Misclassification and Endogeneity for Cross-Sectional and Panel Data

2021 papers

• 86/21: Franke, J & Nandeibam, S (2021) Efficient Probabilistic Fines Under Negative Externalities
• 85/21: Chowdhury, S., Jeon, J. Y., Kim, C, & Kim, S.-H. (2021) Gender Differences in Repeated Dishonest Behavior: Experimental Evidence Published in: Games, Vol. 12 (2). doi.org/10.3390/g12020044
• 84/21: Chowdhury, S., Mukherjee, A. & Sheremeta, R. (2021) In-Group versus Out-Group Preferences in Intergroup Conflict: An Experiment
• 83/21: Chowdhury, S., Jeon, J. Y. & Saha, B. (2021) Eye-image as Nonverbal Social Cue has Asymmetric Gender Effects in Dictator Taking Games. Published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 107, 102087. doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2023.102087
• 82/21: King, P. (2021) Willingness-to-Pay for Precautionary Control of Microplastics; a Comparison of Hybrid Choice Models. Published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 12 (4), p 379-402. doi.org/10.1080/21606544.2022.2146757
• 81/21: King, P., Hunt, A., Georgiou, S., Rainsford, C., & Dean, R. (2021) Economic Valuation of Benefits from the Proposed REACH Restriction of Intentionally Added Microplastics
• 80/21: Francesoni, M. & James, J. (2021) Do Strict Drink Drive Limits Save Lives?
• 79/21: Cubel, M. & Sanchez-Pages, S. (2021) Generalized Difference-form Contests. Published in: Review of Economic Design. doi.org/10.1007/s10058-022-00312-8
• 78/21: Cubel, M & Sanchez-Pages, S. (2021) Gazes and Numbers: Two Experiments in Strategic Sophistication and Gender Bias

2020 papers

• 77/20: Shaha, I., Heb, L., Hatfield, R., & Haroon, M. (2020) Outward FDI: National and Regional Policy Implications for Technology Innovation