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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12403 Francesca Barigozzi
Helmuth Cremer
Chiara Monfardini
The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy
Our model studies couples. time allocation and career choices, which are a¤ected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care ...
(published in: Economia Italiana, 2019, 3, 66-98.)
D13, H23, J16, J22
12402 William Cochrane
Jacques Poot
Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration
The proportion of New Zealand households living in owner-occupied dwellings has declined steadily since the early 1990s. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due ...
(published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284)
J61, J64, R23, R31
12401 Fredrik W. Andersson
Henrik Jordahl
Jens Josephson
Outsourcing Public Services: Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2019, 65 (4), 349–372, )
D23, H11, L33
12400 Daniel Kühnle
How Effective Are Pictorial Warnings on Tobacco Products? New Evidence on Smoking Behaviour Using Australian Panel Data
Studies examining the introduction of pictorial warnings on cigarette packages provide inconclusive evidence due to small samples and methodological issues. We use individual-level panel data from ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 67, 102215)
I12, I14, I18
12399 Alois Stutzer
Michael Baltensperger
Armando N. Meier
Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 483-500)
D03, D72, D78, H00
12397 Karen A. Mumford
Cristina Sechel
Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK: Is Gender Relevant?
This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (1), 82-113)
A1, A11, A2, I3, J01, J31, J7
12395 Gary Charness
Thomas Garcia
Theo Offerman
Marie Claire Villeval
Do Measures of Risk Attitude in the Laboratory Predict Behavior under Risk in and outside of the Laboratory?
We consider the external validity of laboratory measures of risk attitude. Based on a large-scale experiment using a representative panel of the Dutch population, we test if these measures can ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020, 60, 99-123)
C91, C93, D81
12393 Orkun Saka
Nauro F. Campos
Paul De Grauwe
Yuemei Ji
Angelo Martelli
Financial Crises and Liberalization: Progress or Reversals?
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 ...
(published in: Campos, N., P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds), Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 177 - 213 )
G01, G28, P11, P16
12392 Stephanie Prümer
Claus Schnabel
Questioning the Stereotype of the "Malingering Bureaucrat": Absence from Work in the Public and Private Sector in Germany
Public sector employees are often said to have excessive rates of absence from work. Using representative survey data for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2019, 72 (4), 570-603)
I19, J22, H8
12391 Andrea Ichino
Martin Olsson
Barbara Petrongolo
Peter Skogman Thoursie
Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms
We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024)
D13, H24, J22
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