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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11922 Redzo Mujcic
Andrew J. Oswald
Is Envy Harmful to a Society's Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults
Nearly 100 years ago, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell warned of the social dangers of widespread envy. One view of modern society is that it is systematically developing a set of ...
(published in: Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 198, 103 - 111)
I18, I31
11921 Xi Chen
Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision Making
Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019, 8 (2), 76 - 80)
I24, Q53, Q51, G11, G41, J24
11920 David B. Huffman
Michael L. Bognanno
High-Powered Performance Pay and Crowding out of Non-Monetary Motives
A previous literature cautions that paying workers for performance might crowd out non-monetary motives to work hard. Empirical evidence from the field, however, has been based on between-subjects ...
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (10), 4669-4680.)
D03, J22, J33
11919 Frederik Graff
Christian Grund
Christine Harbring
Competing on the Holodeck: The Effect of Virtual Peers and Heterogeneity in Dynamic Tournaments
We propose experiments in virtual reality (VR) as a new approach to examining behavior in an economic context, e.g., heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments. We simulate a realistic working situation in ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics 2021, 90, 101596)
C91, D9, J33, M52
11918 Carlos Alós-Ferrer
Ernst Fehr
Nick Netzer
Time Will Tell: Recovering Preferences When Choices Are Noisy
The ability to uncover preferences from choices is fundamental for both positive economics and welfare analysis. Overwhelming evidence shows that choice is stochastic, which has given rise to random ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (6), 1828–1877)
D11, D81, D83, D87
11914 Daniel J. Henderson
Anne-Charlotte Souto
An Introduction to Nonparametric Regression for Labor Economists
In this article we overview nonparametric (spline and kernel) regression methods and illustrate how they may be used in labor economic applications. We focus our attention on issues commonly found in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2018, 39, 355-382 )
C14, C26, I24, J24, J31
11913 Mette Gřrtz
Eva Rye Johansen
Marianne Simonsen
Academic Achievement and the Gender Composition of Preschool Staff
This paper uses register based data covering the entire population of Danish children enrolled in preschool in 2006-2007 to investigate whether the gender composition of preschool staff members ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 241 - 258)
J13
11912 Seth Gershenson
Jessica Rae McBean
Long Tran
Quantile Regression Estimates of the Effect of Student Absences on Academic Achievement
Credible evidence from a variety of contexts suggests that student absences harm academic achievement. However, extant studies focus entirely on the average effects of student absences, and how those ...
(published in: M. Gottfried; E. Hutt (eds.): Addressing Absenteeism, Cambridge, MA, 2019, 67-82)
I2
11911 Long Tran
Seth Gershenson
Experimental Estimates of the Student Attendance Production Function
Student attendance is both a critical input and intermediate output of the education production function. However, the malleable classroom-level determinants of student attendance are poorly ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021, 43 (2), 183-199.)
I2
11909 Jason B. Cook
Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries
We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to ...
(published as 'Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105237)
I24, I26, I28, J15, J48
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