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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8823 Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen
Morten Visby Kraegpøth
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
Disruptive School Peers and Student Outcomes
This paper estimates how peers' achievement gains are affected by the presence of potentially disruptive and emotionally sensitive children in the school-cohort. We exploit that some children move ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 45, 1-13)
I21, J12
8822 Angus J. Holford
The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13 (3), 531 - 568)
I38, J22, H53
8821 Stefanie Schurer
Lifecycle Patterns in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Risk Preferences
Who is most likely to change their risk preferences over the lifecourse? Using German nationally representative survey data and methods to separate age from cohort effects, we estimate the lifecycle ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,119, 482-495, 2015)
D81, D01, D63
8820 Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Peter Hans Matthews
Andrea Robbett
Compensating Differentials in Experimental Labor Markets
The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of selection, unobserved firm and worker characteristics, and the broader macroeconomic ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 50-60)
J31, D01, C92
8819 Corrado Andini
Monica Andini
A Note on Unemployment Persistence and Quantile Parameter Heterogeneity
The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does not matter. Using panel quantile autoregression techniques on state-level data ...
(extended version published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22 (5), 1298-1320)
C23, J64
8818 Michael Fritsch
Alexander S. Kritikos
Alina Sorgner
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333)
L26, D22
8817 Marco Caliendo
Jens Hogenacker
Steffen Künn
Frank Wießner
Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190)
C14, L26, J68
8816 Frank M. Fossen
Johannes König
Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment
We estimate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669)
L26, I13, J2
8815 David Bardey
Helmuth Cremer
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 28 -37)
I11, I13, I18
8814 Stefanie Schurer
Michael Alspach
Jayden MacRae
Greg L. Martin
The Medical Care Costs of Mood Disorders: A Coarsened Exact Matching Approach
This paper is the first to use the method of coarsened exact matching (CEM) to estimate the impact of mood disorders on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of mood disorders. ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 81–93)
H51, I18
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