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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9316 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Miriam Krüger
Nick Zubanov
Team Incentives and Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(8), 2168-2203)
J3, L2, M5
9315 Maria De Paola
Vincenzo Scoppa
Gender Differences in Reaction to Psychological Pressure: Evidence from Tennis Players
Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We ...
(published in: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2017, 26 (3), 444-456)
J16, D03, L83
9314 Matthias Sutter
Levent Yilmaz
Manuela Oberauer
Delay of Gratification and the Role of Defaults: An Experiment with Kindergarten Children
The ability to delay gratification has been shown to be related to higher education and income and better health status. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2015, 137, 21-24)
C91, D03
9313 Volha Lazuka
Luciana Quaranta
Tommy Bengtsson
Fighting Infectious Disease: Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940
Fighting infectious disease in the past, much like today, focused on isolating the disease and thereby stopping its spread. New insights into the modes of transmission and the causal agents in the ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2016, 42 (1), 27-52 )
I14, I18, H51, J18
9312 Xin Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang
Xi Chen
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Subjective Well-being?
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via ...
(pubished as 'Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 85, 81 - 94 )
I31, Q51, Q53
9311 David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Agne Suziedelyte
Victimisation, Wellbeing and Compensation: Using Panel Data to Estimate the Costs of Violent Crime
The costs of violent crime victimisation are often left to a judge, tribunal or jury to determine; leading to the potential for considerable subjectivity and variation. Using unique panel data, this ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1545-69.)
I31, K30
9309 Maryam Naghsh Nejad
Andrew T. Young
Want Freedom, Will Travel: Emigrant Self-Selection According to Institutional Quality
We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45, 71-84)
O43, F22, P51
9307 Marie C. Hull
The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants
Past research has shown that Hispanic students make test score gains relative to whites as they age through school; however, this finding stands in contrast to the experience of blacks, who show ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 91-110)
J24, I24, J15
9305 Michael S. Hayes
Seth Gershenson
What Differences a Day Can Make: Quantile Regression Estimates of the Distribution of Daily Learning Gains
Recent research exploits a variety of natural experiments that create exogenous variation in annual school days to estimate the average effect of formal schooling on students' academic achievement. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 141, 48-51)
I2
9304 Andrey Fradkin
Frédéric Panier
Ilan Tojerow
Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults
Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance mechanisms. Instead, they rely on family insurance in the form of parental ...
(published as 'Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults'in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 35-100)
J13, J22, J64, J65
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