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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9881 Tommy Bengtsson
Anton Nilsson
Smoking Behaviour and Early Retirement Due to Chronic Disability
This paper considers the long-term effects of smoking on disability retirement. Exploiting population-wide registry data from Sweden, we contribute to the literature by accounting for a much broader ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 29, 31 - 41)
I12, J26
9880 Sophie Cetre
Andrew E. Clark
Claudia Senik
Happy People Have Children: Choice and Self-Selection into Parenthood
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well-being, with the correlation depending on which countries and populations are ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 445-473)
D1, J13
9879 Melisa Bubonya
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Mark Wooden
Mental Health and Productivity at Work: Does What You Do Matter?
Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 150-165)
I12, J22, J24
9876 Michael White
Alex Bryson
Unions and the Economic Basis of Attitudes
Unions make differences to employee satisfaction that correspond to their effects on individual economic advantage. Panel data reveal how changes in economic circumstance and changes in job ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (4), 360-378)
J28, J51
9875 Ruth Ben-Yashar
Leif Danziger
The Unanimity Rule and Extremely Asymmetric Committees
This paper analyzes how to allocate experts into committees that use the unanimity rule to make decisions. We show that an optimal allocation of experts is extremely asymmetric. To reach the optimal ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics 2016, 64, 107-112)
D71
9874 Matthew Roskruge
Jacques Poot
Laura King
Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born
Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. ...
(published in: H Westlund and JP Larsson (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2016)
F22, J15, L26, Z13
9872 Ritwik Banerjee
On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question: Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs
How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 55, 491-510)
C91, C92, D03
9871 Luis Artavia-Mora
Arjun S. Bedi
Matthias Rieger
Intuitive Cooperation and Punishment in the Field
We test whether humans are intuitively inclined to cooperate with or punish strangers using a natural field experiment. We exogenously vary the time available to help a stranger in an everyday ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 92, 133-145)
D03, D63, D64
9870 Pamela Jakiela
Owen Ozier
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (3), 547 - 599)
C91, C93, D01, D74, D81
9868 Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle
Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers
A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096)
J65
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