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10259 David J. Bjerk
In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance: An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution
This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, 47 (4), 791-824.)
H2, D3
10258 Sebastian Fehrler
Urs Fischbacher
Maik T. Schneider
Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key ...
(published as 'Honesty and Self-Selection into Cheap Talk' in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 2468-2496)
C92, D71, D83
10257 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Vincenzo Scoppa
Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams: The Role of Social Ties
We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 112, 74-90.)
J33, J24, D82, D86, L14, C93
10256 Subha Mani
Sophie Mitra
Usha Sambamoorthi
Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using ...
(published in World Development, 2018, 104: 297-309.)
I12, J32, J24
10254 Maya Rossin-Slater
Miriam Wüst
What is the Added Value of Preschool? Long-Term Impacts and Interactions with a Health Intervention
We study the impact of targeted high quality preschool over the life cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (3), 255-86.)
I38, I14, J13
10253 Chris Ryan
Anna Zhu
Sibling Health, Schooling and Longer-Term Developmental Outcomes
We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the detrimental, long-term developmental consequences of having an ill or disabled ...
(published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yerokhin (eds.), Critial Perspectives on Economics of Education, Routledge, 2022)
J13, I21
10252 Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Stan Vermeulen
Inge de Wolf
Teacher Literacy and Numeracy Skills: International Evidence from PIAAC and ALL
Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164 (4), 365-389)
I2, J2, J45
10250 Maria A. Davia
Seamus McGuinness
Philip J. O'Connell
Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe
This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 67-80)
C29, I21, J24
10249 Eric A. Hanushek
Guido Schwerdt
Simon Wiederhold
Ludger Woessmann
Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2017, 153, 15-19)
J31, I20, O15
10246 Alain Jousten
Mathieu Lefèbvre
Spousal and Survivor Benefits in Option Value Models of Retirement: An Application to Belgium
We study retirement incentives with augmented option value model à la Stock and Wise (1990). We propose methodological extensions to better reflect the respective incentives faced by singles and ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, 2019, 18 (1), 66 - 87)
H55, J21, J26
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