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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8909 Wolter Hassink
Roberto M. Fernandez
Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?
We investigate a unique setting which enables us to distinguish between two theories of work performance. A standard labor supply framework implies a negative effect of the non-pecuniary cost of work ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839)
J24, J31, M52
8908 Terence Chai Cheng
Joan Costa-Font
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4 (1), 26-50)
H42, I11, D1
8907 Kyle Rozema
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that ...
(published as 'Taxing Consumption and the Take-Up of Public Assistance: The Case of Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamps' in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (1), 1-27.)
L66, H21, H23, H26, H71, I18
8905 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Petter Lundborg
Kaveh Majlesi
Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2018, 22 (3), 951-975)
I26, G11
8904 Nina Drange
Tarjei Havnes
Child Care Before Age Two and the Development of Language and Numeracy: Evidence from a Lottery
Young children are thought to be vulnerable to separation from the primary caregiver/s. This raises concern about whether early child care enrollment may harm children's development. We use child ...
(published as 'Early child care and cognitive development: Evidence from an assignment lottery' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (2), 581 - 620)
I21, J13
8903 Jens Ruhose
Guido Schwerdt
Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 134-154)
I21, J15, I28
8901 Regina T. Riphahn
Michael Zibrowius
Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (1), 33 - 57)
J40, J24, I29
8900 Olivier Marie
Ulf Zölitz
'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (3), 1210 - 1237)
I18, I20, K42
8899 Nikos Askitas
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences
This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 2 - 12. )
J00, C80, C81, C83
8896 Vincent Boucher
Bernard Fortin
Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
We study some recent developments and challenges in the empirics of the effects of social networks. We focus in particular on researchers' ability to make policy recommendations based on a standard ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302)
A14, C33, C36, D85, Z13
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