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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9095 Michael C. Burda
Katie R. Genadek
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12, we estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. ...
(part of this paper published as 'Unemployment and Effort at Work' in: Economica, 2020, 87 (347), 662 - 681)
J22, E24
9094 Kai Liu
Insuring against Health Shocks: Health Insurance and Household Choices
This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 16 - 32)
D1, O1, I1
9093 Seonghoon Kim
Belton M. Fleisher
Jessica Ya Sun
The Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine
We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (10), 1264 - 1277 )
I10, I12, J14
9090 Simen Markussen
Knut Rĝed
Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner
Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?
We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303)
C21, H51, H55, I38, J22
9089 Nitika Bagaria
Barbara Petrongolo
John Van Reenen
Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform
Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624), 3189-3218)
H51, I13, J18
9088 Lawrence Jin
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?
This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep, Health, and Human Capital: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020,170, 174-192)
H41, I18, I31
9087 Bernard Fortin
Myra Yazbeck
Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 125-138)
C31, I10, I12
9086 Sanni Breining
N. Meltem Daysal
Marianne Simonsen
Mircea Trandafir
Spillover Effects of Early-Life Medical Interventions
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022, 104 (1), 1-16.)
I11, I12, I18, I21, J13
9085 Loukas Balafoutas
Adrian Beck
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Matthias Sutter
The Hidden Costs of Tax Evasion: Collaborative Tax Evasion in Markets for Expert Services
We experimentally examine the impact of tax evasion attempts on the performance of credence goods markets, where contractual incompleteness results from asymmetric information on the welfare ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 129, 14-25)
C72, C91, D82, H26
9084 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
A Real-Effort Experiment on Gift Exchange with Temptation
We conduct a real-effort experiment to test whether workers reciprocate generous wages by managers when workers are tempted to surf the internet. Further, we investigate how an active policy of ...
(revised version published as 'Gift Exchange, Control, and Cyberloafing: A Real-Effort Experiment" in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131,409 - 426 )
C91, D03, J33, M52
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