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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9246
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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Culture and Institutions
A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2015, 53 (4). 898-944)
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P16, Z1
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9245
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Andreas
Lichter
Max
Löffler
Sebastian
Siegloch
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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)
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H11, N34, N44, P26
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9243
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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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)
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J30, M52, M12
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9242
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Christopher
Dawson
David
Emmanuel
de Meza
Andrew
Henley
Reza
Arabsheibani
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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)
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D84, M13
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9241
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Robin
Cubitt
Simon
Gächter
Simone
Quercia
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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 )
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H41, C91, C72, D03
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9240
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
David
Saxler
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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)
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C92, D47, D62, M14
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9238
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
Sebastián
Castillo
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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)
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I28, J13
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9237
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Asako
Ohinata
Matteo
Picchio
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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 )
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C21, D14, I18, J14
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9236
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David
Card
Jochen
Kluve
Andrea
Weber
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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)
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J00, J68
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9235
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Lídia
Farré
Francesco
Fasani
Hannes
Mueller
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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)
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I10, J60, C26
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