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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10713 Benedikt Gerst
Christian Grund
Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender
This study examines how career interruptions and subsequent wages of employees are related. Using individual panel data of middle managers from the German chemical sector, we are able to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878)
M52, J31, J33, J71
10710 Leonardo Becchetti
Vittorio Pelligra
Tommaso G. Reggiani
Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: ...
(revised version published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (6), 1026-1049)
C91, D64, H00
10709 Erez Siniver
Yossef Tobol
Gideon Yaniv
Do Higher Achievers Cheat Less? An Experiment of Self-Revealing Individual Cheating
The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 91 - 96)
A22, C91, C92, K42
10708 Michael Jetter
Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's ...
(published as 'The inadvertent consequences of al-Qaeda news coverage' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 391-410)
C26, D74, F52, L82
10707 Markus Gehrsitz
Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2017, 30(3), 497-528)
I12, K42, R41
10706 Philippe Aghion
Nicholas Bloom
Brian Lucking
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen
Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economicy, 2021, 13 (1), 133 - 169)
O31, O32, O33, F23
10705 Rajeev K. Goel
James W. Saunoris
Friedrich Schneider
Growth in the Shadows: Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth over More Than a Century
This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (1), 50 - 67)
E26, O43, O51, K42
10704 Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski
Balázs Égert
Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Skills in Low-Income Countries
This paper develops a model of costly firm creation in an economy with weak institutions, costly business environment as well as skill gaps where one of the equilibrium outcomes is a low-productivity ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 67, 381 - 391)
L26, J24, J48, O17
10702 Casey Boyd-Swan
Chris M. Herbst
The Demand for Teacher Characteristics in the Market for Child Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend center-based child care programs that are of low quality. This paper examines the extent to which teacher qualifications – widely considered important ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 159, 183-202)
I20, J23, J24, J71
10701 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Subha Mani
Smriti Sharma
Saurabh Singhal
Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality
We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective ...
(published as 'Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (3), 587 - 601)
I23, C9, C14, J24, O15
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