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{"title":"Work schedules","authors":"Jed DeVaro","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107209","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107209","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either assign the specific hours worked or let workers choose their preferred hours via flextime. Workers’ preferences over schedules, and their tendencies to fatigue from long shifts, influence their productivities. An inverted-<em>U</em>-shaped hours-output profile arises. Flextime policies shift its peak rightward. Long hours go hand-in-hand with flextime. The employer finds flextime less appealing when wages exogenously increase. Analysis of a worker-employer matched panel of British workplaces in 2004 and 2011 reveals that flextime and other flexible work practices mitigate the productivity erosion from long hours.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 107209"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Informality in architectural heritage: A conceptual framework for inclusive conservation practice","authors":"Roaksana Firdaus Nigar,&nbsp;Gehan Selim","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106438","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106438","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of informality in architectural heritage conservation has remained underexplored despite its increasing significance in urban governance and community-led preservation. This study develops a conceptual framework to define and analyse informality within the context of tangible cultural heritage. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from architecture, urban planning, and anthropology, the paper addresses the lack of theoretical clarity and empirical grounding in existing conservation literature. Using a systematic literature review of 24 peer-reviewed articles published between 2000 and 2025, the research identifies key attributes, such as adaptability, non-regulation, political negotiation, and community agency. It maps these across four dimensions: informal actors, practices, spaces, and governance. The findings underscore that the informal practices, often excluded from formal frameworks, play a crucial role in sustaining architectural heritage, especially in regions with limited institutional capacity. These practices include grassroots-led maintenance, vernacular adaptation, and public participation in decision-making. The study proposes an inclusive, bottom-up model integrating informal actors and practices with formal conservation policies. It advocates for institutional recognition of community contributions, development of capacity-building initiatives, and flexible policy design to accommodate informal dynamics. The proposed framework aims to support more sustainable, inclusive, and locally grounded approaches to heritage conservation, particularly relevant in urban areas of the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 106438"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tourism gentrification and rentable housing vacancy dynamics: A mediation analysis of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan","authors":"Qiyuan Liu ,&nbsp;Jen-Jia Lin ,&nbsp;Hiroki Baba ,&nbsp;Hayato Nishi ,&nbsp;Shichen Zhao ,&nbsp;Kojiro Sho","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of tourism gentrification on changes in rentable housing vacancies in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. This study suggests the short- and long-term rental vacant houses (SLTR) as a unified indicator of rental housing availability. Using a combination of descriptive statistics and mediation-based stepwise regression across three time intervals (2008–2013, 2013–2018, and 2008–2018), we assess whether tourism gentrification affects SLTR directly or through housing-market dynamics. Reportedly, tourism gentrification—operationalized via tourism intensity indicators—notably alters land use and reshapes housing supply. The findings support four hypotheses: (H1) tourism gentrification is present in Kyoto Prefecture; (H2) tourism gentrification influences the SLTR change ratio; (H3) land prices, rather than rents, mediate this relationship; and (H4) the effects vary across temporal phases. In particular, tourism gentrification-related pressures suppress land price growth in highly touristic areas, indirectly contributing to rising rentable house vacancies. Bootstrap validation confirms the relevance of land price mediation over the long term. These findings highlight the need to reframe tourism gentrification as a process of sociospatial transformation and housing-market decoupling, offering conceptual insights for tourism-impacted cities globally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 106406"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The motherhood penalty on health: Evidence from China","authors":"Ang Sun ,&nbsp;Fang Xia ,&nbsp;Xuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107241","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107241","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding women’s physical and mental well-being following childbirth is critical for informing policies on labor market equity, family support, and fertility. Using event study methods and panel data from China, we document a persistent motherhood penalty in both physical and mental health, whereas the health impacts on fathers are minimal. While mothers experience a temporary reduction in paid work hours, they face a sustained increase in unpaid domestic labor — housework and childcare — resulting in a net increase in total work time. This additional workload likely contributes to deterioration in health. Mothers are also more likely to engage in multitasking, which is associated with elevated stress and burden, and they experience a greater increase in insufficient sleep (fewer than 7 hour per night) during the first postpartum year. Finally, we find that grandparental support can help mitigate the adverse health effects associated with motherhood.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 107241"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Endogenous cool-off periods","authors":"Mark van Oldeniel,&nbsp;Noemi Peter","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We run an ultimatum game experiment where cool-off periods can emerge endogenously, that is, where proposers can <em>decide</em> to impose a waiting period on responders. Previous research focused on cool-off periods that were <em>exogenously imposed</em> by the researcher, but in real life people can make deliberate choices to impose such periods on others for strategic reasons. Since in our experiment cool-off periods can be imposed endogenously, we can answer several novel research questions. First, how willing are individuals to impose endogenous cool-off periods on others? Second, do offers change if cool-off is an option? Third, are endogenously imposed cool-offs effective? Finally, how does the possibility of imposing an endogenous cool-off period affect bargaining breakdowns and earnings? We find that 40% of proposers choose to impose a cool-off period on responders. Proposers make significantly lower offers when they can impose a cool-off period on responders. Endogenous cool-off periods are not effective in increasing the overall acceptance rate. The possibility to create an endogenous cool-off period does not have a significant effect on bargaining breakdowns or earnings overall. However, it lowers responder earnings significantly, as it allows proposers to exploit the timing choice to make a lower offer. Our results highlight that instead of helping to solve conflicts, the possibility to create cool-off periods hurts the less powerful party.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 107237"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban vitality versus urban livability: Does vibrancy matter for neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness?","authors":"Kostas Mouratidis ,&nbsp;Xavier Delclòs-Alió","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106473","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban vitality is often considered a key factor for a successful city, yet its contribution to urban livability remains underexplored. In this paper, we conceptualize and test models linking the built environment, urban vitality, neighborhood satisfaction, and neighborhood happiness. Neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness are key indicators of urban livability and predictors of subjective well-being. Data come from analyses with geographic information systems and a survey carried out in Oslo, Norway. Results show that three built environment characteristics – proximity to the main city center, higher population density, and accessibility to amenities such as shops, cafes, and restaurants – contribute to increased urban vitality. In turn, urban vitality is positively linked to neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness. Among all environmental attributes analyzed, urban vitality emerged as the strongest predictor of neighborhood satisfaction. This relationship is strong and positive for all age groups but is more pronounced among younger adults than among middle-aged and older adults. The study's findings suggest that urban vitality plays a critical role not only in fostering vibrant street life, social interaction, and active transport but also in improving overall urban livability, highlighting its importance in urban planning and policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 106473"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145060668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Support for renewable energy: The case of wind power","authors":"Robert Germeshausen ,&nbsp;Sven Heim ,&nbsp;Ulrich J. Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105468","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105468","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rise of societal goals like climate change mitigation and energy security calls for rapid capacity growth in renewable electricity sources, yet citizens’ support is put to a test when such technologies emit negative local externalities. We estimate the impact of wind turbine deployment on granular measures of revealed preferences for renewable electricity in product and political markets. We address potentially endogenous siting of turbines with an IV design that exploits quasi-experimental variation in profitability induced by subsidies. We find that wind turbines significantly reduce citizens’ support locally, but this effect quickly fades with distance from the site. We assess policy instruments for enhancing citizens’ support for renewable energy in light of our results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"250 ","pages":"Article 105468"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145061276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Riding the Green Bandwagon: An Analysis of Green Social Influences on Sustainability Communication","authors":"Joshua Hilton","doi":"10.1111/jpet.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper presents a signaling model of eco-labeling that incorporates social benefits from green consumption through bandwagon effects. A monopoly firm chooses whether to adopt an eco-label when consumers are uncertain about the firm's environmental type but derive utility from both the intrinsic value of green products and their social desirability. The analysis reveals that the strength of bandwagon effects relative to intrinsic value determines equilibrium outcomes: weak effects support only separating equilibria where green firms truthfully label, while strong effects enable both separating and pooling equilibria, creating opportunities for greenwashing. Paradoxically, higher consumer trust in firm greenness expands opportunities for greenwashing by making pooling equilibria profitable over a wider range of labeling costs. However, pooling equilibria require identical labeling costs for both firm types—even small cost differentials favoring green firms will eliminate greenwashing, providing an empirically testable prediction with implications for certification design. Welfare analysis demonstrates that separating equilibria generates strictly higher consumer surplus and producer surplus simultaneously compared to pooling equilibria, while also mitigating the environmental damage from brown production that occurs under pooling. The model identifies a critical labeling cost threshold above which policies that increase green product value lead to market expansion rather than premium positioning, suggesting that subsidies for green product improvement should be coupled with measures which push labeling costs above this threshold. The model reveals a tension in regulatory approach: markets with strong social effects and high consumer trust require the most stringent certification and monitoring to prevent greenwashing, while those dominated by intrinsic value may function effectively with simpler schemes. The results provide theoretical justification for risk-based enforcement strategies that intensify monitoring as consumer trust increases and suggest that third-party certification or targeted subsidies creating cost differentials between firm types can effectively deter greenwashing.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47024,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economic Theory","volume":"27 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145062776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Residential solar PV and electricity consumption: Pro-environmental behaviors, technology adoption, and pathways to a low-carbon society","authors":"Tomoaki Nakaishi ,&nbsp;Sunbin Yoo ,&nbsp;Junya Kumagai ,&nbsp;Shunsuke Managi","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.106449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The adoption of residential solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is widely regarded as a critical measure to mitigate global warming by reducing carbon emissions and supporting a shift toward renewable energy. However, the broader impact of solar PV on household consumption behaviors remains underexplored. This study investigates the effects of residential solar PV adoption on household electricity consumption, with a focus on the mediating roles of pro-environmental behaviors and technology adoption. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and data from Japanese households, we examine electricity costs post-adoption as a proxy for usage and emissions, highlighting seasonal variations across winter, summer, and spring. Our findings reveal that solar PV adoption is associated with increased electricity costs in winter (13.899%) and spring (2.429%) but a decrease in summer (6.322%). This pattern is partly driven by a greater use of energy-efficient products and electric vehicles (EVs), as households perceive solar energy as a low-cost resource. These insights suggest that while solar PV reduces fossil fuel reliance, it may inadvertently lead to higher energy use. To maximize the environmental benefits of solar energy, policies that promote energy conservation, incentivize battery storage, and curb excessive use of energy-efficient products are recommended.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 106449"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145057376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Journal of Futures Markets: Volume 45, Number 10, October 2025","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/fut.22526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.22526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15863,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Futures Markets","volume":"45 10","pages":"1469-1470"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fut.22526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145051240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}