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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11416 Ana Petrović
David Manley
Maarten van Ham
Freedom from the Tyranny of Neighbourhood: Rethinking Socio-Spatial Context Effects
Theory behind neighbourhood effects suggests that different geographies and scales affect individual outcomes. We argue that neighbourhood effects research needs to break away from the tyranny of ...
(published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2020, 44 (6), 1103 - 1123)
I30, J60, P46, R23
11415 Mauro Lanati
Alessandra Venturini
Cultural Change and the Migration Choice
Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences – such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or ...
(published in: Review of World Economy, 2021, 157, 799 - 852)
F16, F22, Z10
11412 Charles Courtemanche
Augustine Denteh
Rusty Tchernis
Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation
Administrative data are considered the "gold standard" when measuring program participation, but little evidence exists on the potential problems with administrative records or their implications for ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228)
C81, H51, I12, I18
11411 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
Measuring Costly Effort Using the Slider Task
Using real effort to implement costly activities increases the likelihood that the motivations that drive effort provision in real life carry over to the laboratory. However, unobserved differences ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2019, 21, 1-9)
C91, C13
11410 Silvia Garcia Mandico
Pilar Garcia-Gomez
Anne C. Gielen
Owen O'Donnell
Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts
Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI ...
(published as 'Earnings responses to disability insurance stringency' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101880)
H53, H55, J14, J22
11409 Tomi Kyyrä
Tuuli Paukkeri
Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow
We study whether the experience rating of employers' disability insurance premiums affects the inflow to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit ...
(published as "Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, 178-192)
J14, J26, H32
11408 Benjamin Elsner
Florian Wozny
The Human Capital Cost of Radiation: Long-Run Evidence from Exposure Outside the Womb
This paper studies the long-term effect of radiation on cognitive skills. We use regional variation in nuclear fallout caused by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, which led to a permanent increase in ...
(published as 'Long-run exposure to low-dose radiation reduces cognitive performance' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 118, 102785)
J24, Q53
11406 Arnaud Lefranc
Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run: Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975
This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French ...
(published in: Economica, 2018, 85 (340), 808 - 845)
D1, D3, J3
11405 Paolo Brunori
Vito Peragine
Laura Serlenga
Upward and Downward Bias When Measuring Inequality of Opportunity
Estimates of the level of inequality of opportunity have traditionally been interpreted as lower bounds due to the downward bias resulting from the partial observability of circumstances that affect ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (4), 635 - 661)
C52, D3, D63
11404 Martin Leites
Xavier Ramos
The Effect of Relative Concern on Life Satisfaction: Relative Deprivation and Loss Aversion
Income comparisons are important for individual well-being. We examine the shape of the relationship between relative income and life satisfaction, and test empirically if the features of the value ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 3485 - 3515)
D6, I31
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