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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12910 Oded Stark
Lukasz Byra
Grzegorz Kosiorowski
On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
We offer an explanation for the inconclusive results of empirical studies into the relationship between the magnitude of the Gini coefficient of income distribution at origin and the intensity of ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 187, 108880)
D31, D63, F22, O15, R23
12909 Bernard M. S. van Praag
J. Peter Hop
Demography and Provisions for Retirement: The Pension Composition, a Behavioral Approach
Pensions may be provided for in a modern society by a mix of several methods, namely by voluntary individual savings, mandatory fully-funded occupational pension systems, mandatory social security ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 1-31)
H55, H75, J1, J26
12907 Margaretha Buurman
Josse Delfgaauw
Robert Dur
Robin Zoutenbier
When Do Teachers Respond to Student Feedback? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We ran a field experiment at a large Dutch school for intermediate vocational education to examine whether the response of teachers to student feedback depends on the content of the feedback. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101858)
C93, I2, M5
12906 Luca Piccoli
Silvia Tiezzi
Rational Addiction and Time Consistency: An Empirical Test
This paper deals with one of the main empirical problems associated with the rational addiction theory, namely that its derived demand equation is not empirically distinguishable from models with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102546)
C23, D03, D12
12905 Tommaso G. Reggiani
Rainer Michael Rilke
When Too Good Is Too Much: Social Incentives and Job Selection
We analyze the effects of substitutability of social incentives on the labor supply of gigworkers (N=944) in a natural field experiment. In our treatments, we vary the proportion of the worker's wage ...
(revised version online as 'Designing Donation Incentive Contracts for Online Gig Workers' in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, 190, 553 - 568)
C93, D23, M52
12904 Samuel Berlinski
Maria Marta Ferreyra
Luca Flabbi
Juan David Martin
Child Care Markets, Parental Labor Supply, and Child Development
We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (6), 2113–2177)
J13, J22, L1
12903 Felix Stips
Krisztina Kis-Katos
Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers: Evidence from Germany
Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal ...
(published as 'The impact of co-national networks on asylum seekers' employment: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany.' in: PLOS One, 2020, 15 (8), e0236996)
F22, J61, R23
12900 Paola Giuliano
Paola Sapienza
The Cost of Being Too Patient
We study the cost of being too patient on happiness. We find that the relationship between patience and various measures of subjective well-being is hump-shaped: it exists an optimal amount of ...
(published in: American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, 314-318)
A10, D9, Z1
12899 Charles Courtemanche
Joshua C. Pinkston
Jay Stewart
Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method
This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, 100940)
I10, C21
12897 Bin Huang
Xiaoyan He
Lei Xu
Yu Zhu
Elite School Designation and Housing Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Beijing, China
We explore recent policy changes which aim to equalize access to elite elementary schools in Beijing, to identify the effect of access to quality education on house prices based on a unique dataset. ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2020, 50, 101730 )
R21, I28, H44
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