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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10918 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Social Insurance and Health
This chapter reviews the existing empirical evidence on how social insurance affects health. Social insurance encompasses programs primarily designed to insure against health risks, such as health ...
(short version published as 'Social Insurance and Health' in: Baltagi, B. H. and Moscone, F. (eds.), Health Econometrics, Emerald Publishing, 1st ed., 2018. )
H1, H5, I1, J2
10917 Susan L. Averett
Sabrina Terrizzi
Yang Wang
Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did Hip and Knee Replacement Patients Benefit?
Policymakers and the general public have expressed increasing concern over rising health care costs. The Certificate-of-Need (CON) programs began at the federal level in 1974 to stem the increase in ...
(published as 'Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania: Did hip/knee replacement patients benefit? A retrospective analysis' in: Health Policy and Technology, 2019, 8 (4), 349 - 355)
I18, I10
10914 Per-Anders Edin
Peter Fredriksson
Martin Nybom
Björn Öckert
The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill
We examine the changes in the relative rewards to cognitive and non-cognitive skill during the time period 1992–2013. Using unique administrative data for Sweden, we document a secular increase in ...
(published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 78-100)
J24, J31
10913 Jeffrey T. Denning
Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints
Financial aid has been shown to affect student outcomes from enrollment to graduation. However, effects on graduation can be driven either by marginal students induced to enroll by financial aid, or ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (3), 760-784)
I22, I23
10912 Russell Weinstein
Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting
This paper analyzes labor market matching in the presence of search and informational frictions, by studying employer recruiting on college campuses. Based on employer and university interviews, I ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 282-299)
J23, J31, D83, I26, M51
10910 Sarah Brown
Pulak Ghosh
Bhuvanesh Pareek
Karl Taylor
Financial Hardship and Saving Behaviour: Bayesian Analysis of British Panel Data
We explore whether a protective role for savings against future financial hardship exists using household level panel data. We jointly model the incidence and extent of financial problems, as well as ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Finance, 2021, 63, 57-72)
C11, D12, D14, R20
10909 Seyoung Chae
Almas Heshmati
The Effects of Lifetime Work Experience on Incidence and Severity of Elderly Poverty in Korea
This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which ...
(published in: Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2023, 26, 521 - 554)
E20, I30, I38, J10, N35
10908 Alpaslan Akay
Olivier B. Bargain
Xavier Jara
'Fair' Welfare Comparisons with Heterogeneous Tastes: Subjective versus Revealed Preferences
Multidimensional welfare analysis has recently been revived by money-metric measures based on explicit fairness principles and the respect of individual preferences. To operationalize this approach, ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 51 - 8)
C35, C90, D60, D63, D71, H24, H31, J22
10907 Alpaslan Akay
Olivier B. Bargain
Xavier Jara
Back to Bentham, Should We? Large-Scale Comparison of Experienced versus Decision Utility
Subjective well-being (SWB) data is increasingly used to perform welfare analyses. Interpreted as 'experienced utility', SWB has recently been compared to 'decision utility' using specific ...
(published as 'Experienced versus decision utility: large-scale comparison for income-leisure preferences' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2023, 125 (4), 823 - 859)
C90, I31, J22
10906 Renate Strobl
Conny Wunsch
Does Voluntary Risk Taking Affect Solidarity? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals ...
(published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in: Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185 - 1214)
D81, C91, O12, D63
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