{"title":"Unions and workplace safety investment in Chinese private enterprises","authors":"Yinxiao Chu, Xiaoyu Huang, Jianxing Wei","doi":"10.1111/coep.12673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12673","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the significant role of unions in workplace safety investment. Analyzing data from a national survey of Chinese private enterprises, we find that unionization has a positive effect on workplace safety investment. We test several mechanisms through which unionization may enhance workplace safety investment. Unionization increases investment in workplace safety by advocating for formal contracts between employees and firms. More importantly, unionization enhances workplace safety investment through the democratization of corporate governance structure. Furthermore, the employee representative assembly system, a fundamental mechanism for union participation in democratic management within Chinese firms, is also observed to augment safety investment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 2","pages":"319-342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629852","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":"States of opportunity for youth aging out of foster care","authors":"Alexa Prettyman","doi":"10.1111/coep.12679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12679","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over 20,000 youth age out of foster care each year in the United States facing various hardships. Research demonstrates that extended foster care beneficially impacts youth aging out of care; however, it is less clear which states assist these youth. This descriptive paper explores which states effectively assist foster youth aging out of care. I use the National Youth in Transition Database and a two-step regression-adjusted approach to determine state effectiveness across a variety of outcomes, including college enrollment, employment, disconnectedness, homelessness, incarceration, substance abuse, and parenthood. I find considerable variation in state effectiveness depending on the outcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 3","pages":"388-410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264696","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":"Self-reported mental health and the Dobbs decision: Variation by State abortion laws","authors":"J. Michael Collins, Vivekananda Das","doi":"10.1111/coep.12678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12678","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When a US Supreme Court ruling allowed states to ban abortion, women of childbearing age in the states where abortion became illegal reported higher rates of anxiety symptoms compared to similar-aged women in other states and older women in the same states. This study highlights how people respond to major policy changes and underscores the importance of mental health as a measure of well-being for policymakers and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 2","pages":"199-225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12678","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629874","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}
{"title":"Nurse practitioner oversight ratios and labor market outcomes","authors":"Andrew J. D. Smith, Sara Markowitz","doi":"10.1111/coep.12676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12676","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Nurse practitioners are important to the US healthcare system; however, many states impose physician oversight ratios, which limit the number of NPs a physician may supervise. In this study, we evaluate the effect of eliminating physician oversight ratios on the supply of NPs by conducting case studies of three states—New York, Nevada, and Pennsylvania—using synthetic control and related approaches. Surprisingly, we find that eliminating oversight ratios had little effect on the labor supply of NPs. For New York, we also analyze the effects of eliminating oversight ratios on wages and hours worked and again find null results.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"52-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12676","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112220","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}
{"title":"Bride kidnapping and informal governance institutions","authors":"Zachary Porreca","doi":"10.1111/coep.12672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Bride kidnapping, a forced marriage practice, has surged in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan alongside a revival of traditional values. The central government has empowered councils of elders, or <i>aksakals</i>, to handle local disputes based on cultural norms, including bride kidnapping. This study uses data from a national survey and a latent class nested logit model to examine how <i>aksakal</i> governance influences men's decisions to kidnap brides. Findings indicate that living under <i>aksakal</i> governance makes men 9% more likely to obtain a wife through bride capture, with men substituting kidnapping for choice marriage modalities such as elopement and standard love marriages.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 2","pages":"362-383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629917","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":"Central bank communication: Inflation target transparency with fiscal policy","authors":"Montserrat Ferré, Òscar Macaya, Carolina Manzano","doi":"10.1111/coep.12667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12667","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the impact of opacity in announcing the central bank's inflation target on macroeconomic volatility and welfare, considering the interaction between an independent central bank and a fiscal authority. Our findings suggest that a key factor influencing the effects of central bank transparency is the relative importance placed by the central bank, compared to the government, on output stabilization versus inflation stabilization. Specifically, when output stabilization is relatively more important for the central bank than for the government, full opacity may benefit the central bank, but not necessarily society as a whole.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"42 4","pages":"642-659"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142316814","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}
{"title":"Mental health and financial risk attitudes: Panel data evidence from Australia","authors":"Dusanee Kesavayuth, Vasileios Zikos","doi":"10.1111/coep.12669","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12669","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the impact of mental health on financial risk attitudes using panel data from Australia. In an instrumental-variables framework that tries to address the endogeneity of mental health, we find that poor mental health can lead to a higher willingness to take risks. Specifically, a standard deviation decrease in mental health leads to a 10.3 percentage point increase in the likelihood of taking financial risks. This finding remains robust across various sensitivity checks and highlights the significant role that mental health plays in risk-taking preferences in financial matters.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 2","pages":"178-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142222479","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":"The effect of expansion of nurse practitioner scope of practice on early COVID-19 deaths","authors":"Bobby W. Chung, Noah J. Trudeau","doi":"10.1111/coep.12670","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12670","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public safety is often used as an argument against expanding scope of practice (SOP) for nurse practitioners, despite the benefit of filling unmet health care demand. As a response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, some states expanded SOP for nurse practitioners to accommodate the unprecedented healthcare challenge. We analyze the effect of the expansion of SOP on daily COVID-19-related mortality, exploiting the quasi-random state policy changes at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Checking different model specifications, we do not find evidence that expanding SOP for nurse practitioners during the pandemic causes adverse effects on patients measured by COVID-19 mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 1","pages":"79-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/coep.12670","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142222480","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}
{"title":"Hurdles to hops: How self-distribution laws affect craft brewery output","authors":"James M. Harrison, Darrell J. Glaser","doi":"10.1111/coep.12668","DOIUrl":"10.1111/coep.12668","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the impact of laws that allow breweries to bypass distributors. We construct a model of heterogeneous firms where some states require pairing with distributors who charge fixed and marginal costs in return for additional market share. The model predicts that states without such requirements have higher output and employment due to greater entry and firm-level production. To test this model, we exploit the adoption of self-distribution laws from 2008 to 2019. We find that states that do not require a distributor have higher brewery output and employment, and that this is primarily driven by a greater entry of breweries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47364,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Economic Policy","volume":"43 2","pages":"292-318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142222481","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}