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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9773 Osea Giuntella
Fabrizio Mazzonna
If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight
Most economic models consider sleeping as a pre-determined and homogeneous constraint on individuals' time allocation neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics,2019, 65: 210-226)
I12, J22, C31
9772 Michela Ponzo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.)
I10, I13, I11, I18, C26
9770 Alex Bryson
Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces: Where are They and Who Controls Them?
This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (5-6), 547-566)
J81
9766 Nicolas Houy
Jean-Philippe Nicolaï
Marie Claire Villeval
Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence
Achieving an ambitious goal frequently requires succeeding in a sequence of intermediary tasks, some being critical for the final outcome, and others not. Individuals are not always able to provide a ...
(revised version published as 'Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 249-286)
C72, C92, D81
9765 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Subha Mani
Smriti Sharma
Saurabh Singhal
Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field
Field constraints often necessitate choosing an elicitation task that is intuitive, easy to explain, and simple to implement. Given that subject behavior often differs dramatically across tasks when ...
(published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46)
C91, C81, D81
9764 Guilherme Hirata
Rodrigo R. Soares
Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination
According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, Article 102519)
J31, J71, J78, F66
9763 Stijn Baert
Suncica Vujic
Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 146, 95 - 98)
J15, J71, D64
9762 Gil S. Epstein
Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora
In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153)
D85, D74, J61, L14
9756 Margherita Fort
Andrea Ichino
Giulio Zanella
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girls
Exploiting admission thresholds in a Regression Discontinuity Design, we study the causal effects of daycare at age 0–2 on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at age 8–14. One additional month in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(1), 158-205)
J13, I20, I28, H75
9755 Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll
Zoë Kuehn
Education Policies and Migration across European Countries
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (6), 2181-2200)
J61, I20, F22
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