Summer reading 2020: VoxEU and VoxDev roundup

Recent VoxEU and VoxDev articles and videos by Barcelona GSE researchers
Recent VoxEU and VoxDev articles and videos by Barcelona GSE researchers
Cristina Bellés-Obrero, Sergi Jimenéz-Martín and Judit Vall-Castelló investigate whether education equally affects the life expectancy of women and men.
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.
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.
Libertad González and Sofia Trommlerová explore how a child benefit in Spain affected birth rates and abortions.
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”).