Summer Reading 2019
Barcelona GSE Focus will return in September with new articles and videos.
Mothers’ Care: Early Childhood Health Shocks and Parental Investment
Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Antonio Cabrales, Sergi Jiménez-Martín and Judit Vall-Castello find that maternal vigilance compensates for the negative effects of a Spanish child labor reform.
Video: The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism (ERC Starting Grant)
Maria Petrova discusses her ERC Starting Grant project in this short video
Should eSports be considered as sports?
Jaume Garcia-Villar and Carles Murillo explore the growing industry of eSports with an econometric analysis.
Firing the wrong workers
Andrea Caggese, Vicente Cuñat and Daniel Metzger study how financing constraints affect the firing decisions of firms.
Economic incentives and the geography of anti-Semitism
Sascha O. Becker and Luigi Pascali
