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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8862 Raymond Montizaan
Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Training Access, Reciprocity, and Expected Retirement Age
This paper investigates whether employers can induce employees to postpone retirement by offering access to training courses that maintain job proficiency. We use unique, matched ...
(published as 'Train to retain: Training opportunities, positive reciprocity, and expected retirement age' in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2020, 117, 103332 (with Bert Schreurs))
J24, J31, I2
8861 Hans Bloemen
Stefan Hochguertel
Jochem Zweerink
Joint Retirement of Couples: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We estimate and explain the impact of early retirement of husbands on their wives’ probability to retire within one year, using administrative micro panel data that cover the whole Dutch ...
(published as 'The Effect of Incentive-Induced Retirement on Spousal Retirement Rates: Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (2), 910 - 930 )
C26, J26, J12, J14
8859 Maria De Paola
Michela Ponzo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Gender Differences in Attitudes Towards Competition: Evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification
We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data ...
(published as 'Gender differences in the propensity to apply for promotion: evidence from the Italian Scientific Qualification' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (5), 986 - 1009.)
J71, M51, J45, J16, D72, D78
8858 Eugenio Proto
Daniel Sgroi
Biased Beliefs and Imperfect Information
We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 136, 186 - 2020)
D03, C83, D84
8857 Thomas Dohmen
Jan Sauermann
Referee Bias
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, 30 (4), 679-695)
D8, L83
8856 Orazio Attanasio
Sarah Cattan
Emla Fitzsimons
Costas Meghir
Marta Rubio-Codina
Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2020, 110 (1), 48–85)
J13, J24, I24, I25, I32, O15
8855 Corrado Andini
The Wage Return to Education: What Hides Behind the Least Squares Bias?
This paper combines the approach by Guimarăes and Portugal (2010) with the methodology of Gelbach (2015) to investigate the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2024, 45 (7), 1409-1425)
I21, J31
8854 Isabelle Lebon
Therese Rebiere
How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact
This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets – ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2018, 17 (1), 1 - 44 )
H21, H52, J21, J64
8852 David W. Johnston
Michael A. Shields
Peter Siminski
Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service: A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 45, 12-26.)
H56, I10, I13
8851 Jan Michael Bauer
Alfonso Sousa-Poza
Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family
As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2015, 8(3), 113-145)
E26, J14, J46
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