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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9290 Corrado Giulietti
Mirco Tonin
Michael Vlassopoulos
Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public ...
(published as 'Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the United States' in: Journal of the European Economic Association. 2019, 17 (1), 165 - 204)
D73, H41, J15
9289 Stijn Baert
Jennifer Norga
Yannick Thuy
Marieke Van Hecke
Getting Grey Hairs in the Labour Market: An Alternative Experiment on Age Discrimination
This study presents a new field experimental approach for measuring age discrimination in hiring. In addition to the classical approach in which candidates' ages are randomly assigned within pairs of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 57, 86 - 101)
C90, C93, J14, J71
9288 Manuela Angelucci
Silvia Prina
Heather Royer
Anya Samek
When Incentives Backfire: Spillover Effects in Food Choice
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 66 - 95)
C93, I1, J13
9287 Simon Chang
Rachel Connelly
Ping Ma
What Will You Do If I Say 'I Do'?: The Effect of the Sex Ratio on Time Use within Taiwanese Married Couples
This paper uses the natural experiment of a large imbalance between men and women of marriageable age in Taiwan in the 1960s to test the hypothesis that higher sex ratios lead to husbands (wives) ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35 (4), 471-500)
J12, J16
9286 David Gill
Zdenka Kissová
Jaesun Lee
Victoria L. Prowse
First-Place Loving and Last-Place Loathing: How Rank in the Distribution of Performance Affects Effort Provision
Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion and symbolic awards depend on the rank of workers in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever firms use rank-order ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (2), 494 - 507)
C23, C91, J22, M12
9285 Patrick Kampkötter
Dirk Sliwka
The Complementary Use of Experiments and Field Data to Evaluate Management Practices: The Case of Subjective Performance Evaluations
Most firms rely on subjective evaluations by supervisors to assess their employees' performance. This article discusses the implementation of such appraisal processes, exploring the use of multiple ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2016, 172 (2), 364-389)
D22, J33, M12, M52
9284 Wim Naudé
Melissa Siegel
Katrin Marchand
Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review
We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through ...
(published as 'Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6, Article 5 (2017))
J60, L26, O15, F22
9281 Naci Mocan
Luiza Pogorelova
Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019. 47, 618-639.)
J22, Z1
9280 Petter Lundborg
Kaveh Majlesi
Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Is It a One-Way Street?
Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, 206 - 220)
I10, 126
9279 Rasmus Landersř
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
School Starting Age and the Crime-Age Profile
This paper uses register-based data to investigate the effects of school starting age on crime. Through this, we provide insights into the determinants of crime-age profiles. We exploit that Danish ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1096-1118)
I21, K42
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