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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11546 Jason M. Fletcher
Jin Ho Kim
Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development
This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26 (5), 409-412 )
J24, D9
11545 Rebecca McDonald
Nattavudh Powdthavee
The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from ...
(published online in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024)
H8, I18, I31
11544 Jason M. Fletcher
Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock
This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in determining educational attainment. The central question is whether poor childhood ...
(published in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2019, 73 (1), 139-148)
J62, J1, J24
11543 Elena Grinza
François Rycx
The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian private firms. We deal with endogeneity, which arises from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194)
D24, M59, I15
11542 Soohyung Lee
Heesun Yoo
Minhyuk Nam
Impact of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from South Korea
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2018, 168, 98-101)
I18, K32, Q52
11541 Karen Clay
Margarita Portnykh
Edson Severnini
Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988 and lead in topsoil in the 2000s, this paper examines the impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications – ...
(published in:Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2021, 8 (5), 975–1012 )
Q53, J13, N52, N92
11540 Gregory DeAngelo
Laura Katherine Gee
Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 123, 210-227)
C72, C91, C92, D7, H41
11539 Ohto Kanninen
Petri Böckerman
Ilpo Suoniemi
Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility function at the individual level, using European survey data on life satisfaction. ...
(published online as ' Income–Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health' in: Health Economics, 19 November 2025)
D02, H55, I13
11538 Eric Cardella
Charlene M. Kalenkoski
Michael Parent
Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices
This paper presents the results of an experiment that is designed to examine how information presentation and complexity impact retirement-savings behavior. The experiment is performed twice, using ...
(published as 'Less is not more: 401(k) plan information and retirement planning choices' in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (3), 331-351.)
G11, G41, H31, J32, D83, C90
11537 Pia Pinger
Sebastian Schäfer
Heiner Schumacher
Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices
We document that an internal locus of control can be hindering in financial market situations, where short-term outcomes are determined by chance. The reason is that internally controlled individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 66-75)
D03, G02, C91
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