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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9245 Andreas Lichter
Max Löffler
Sebastian Siegloch
The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789)
H11, N34, N44, P26
9243 Alberto Bayo-Moriones
Jose Enrique Galdon-Sanchez
Sara Martinez-de-Morentin
Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity
This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546)
J30, M52, M12
9242 Christopher Dawson
David Emmanuel de Meza
Andrew Henley
Reza Arabsheibani
The Power of (Non) Positive Thinking: Self-Employed Pessimists Earn More than Optimists
Developing further the accumulating evidence that self-employment attracts optimists, this paper investigates the relationship between earnings and prior optimism. It finds that self-employed ...
(published as 'Curb your enthusiasm: Optimistic entrepreneurs earn less' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 53 - 69)
D84, M13
9241 Robin Cubitt
Simon Gächter
Simone Quercia
Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69 )
H41, C91, C72, D03
9240 Bernd Irlenbusch
David Saxler
Social Responsibility in Market Interaction
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of ...
(completely revised and extended version published as 'The Role of Social Information, Market Framing, and Diffusion of Responsibility as Determinants of Socially Responsible Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 80, 141-161)
C92, D47, D62, M14
9238 Julio Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio Giolito
Sebastián Castillo
Early Impacts of College Aid
We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 63, 154-166)
I28, J13
9237 Asako Ohinata
Matteo Picchio
The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268 )
C21, D14, I18, J14
9236 David Card
Jochen Kluve
Andrea Weber
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (3), 894 - 931)
J00, J68
9235 Lídia Farré
Francesco Fasani
Hannes Mueller
Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2018) 7(1), 1-34)
I10, J60, C26
9234 Lídia Farré
Francesc Ortega
Ryuichi Tanaka
Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large ...
(published as 'Immigration and the public-private school choice' in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 184 - 201)
D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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