Summer reading 2020: VoxEU and VoxDev roundup
Recent VoxEU and VoxDev articles and videos by Barcelona GSE researchers
Education and the life expectancy gender gap
Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jimenéz-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló investigate whether education equally affects the life expectancy of women and men.
What is the economic cost of coastal flooding?
Dávid K. Nagy and co-authors evaluate the economic effects of permanent coastal inundation by considering both the spatial and temporal dimensions of this climate-related phenomenon.
To stay or to go: When news coverage shapes behavior
Timothy Besley, Thiemo Fetzer, and Hannes Mueller use two novel datasets to separate the effect of an event at tourist destinations from the coverage of that event at the home countries of tourists.
Birth subsidies and fertility: Evidence from Spain
Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová explore how a child benefit in Spain affected birth rates and abortions.
Lessons from white elephants and concession contracts
Juan-José Ganuza and Gerard Llobet argue that standard contracts do not provide incentives for firms to properly screen projects, resulting in the construction of unnecessary infrastructures (“white elephants”).
