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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
16143 Gabriella Conti
Pamela Giustinelli
For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior
We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2025, 34, 992 - 1012)
C25, C83, D84, I12, I18
16141 Matthias Rodemeier
Andreas Löschel
Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention: Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency ...
(published online in: Journal of the European Economic Association, jvae058, 21 January 2025)
D61, D83, H21, Q41, Q48
16139 Wim Naudé
Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse
The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's ...
(published in: W. Naudé (ed.), Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2023)
O40, O33, D01, D64
16137 Alexander K. Koch
Dan Monster
Julia Nafziger
Nudging in Complex Environments
To study the effects of reminder nudges in complex environments, we apply a novel experimental approach based on a computer game in which decision makers have to pay attention to and perform multiple ...
(published as 'Spillover effects of reminder nudges in complex environments' in: PNAS, 2024; 121 (17), e23225491)
C9, D91
16135 Gaurav Chiplunkar
Jeffrey Weaver
Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India
Dowry payments are common in many marriage markets. This paper uses data on over 74,000 marriages in rural India over the last century to explain why the institution of dowry emerges and how it ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 164, 103115)
J12, N35, O15
16130 Oded Stark
On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232)
D01, D63, D91, I31, Z18
16129 Margaret E. Brehm
Olga Malkova
The Child Tax Credit over Time by Family Type: Benefit Eligibility and Poverty
We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2023, 76 (3), 707 - 741)
H24, H71, J22
16128 Liuchun Deng
Steffen Müller
Verena Plümpe
Jens Stegmaier
Robots, Occupations, and Worker Age: A Production-Unit Analysis of Employment
We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104881)
J23
16124 Thorben Korfhage
Björn Fischer
Long-Run Consequences of Informal Elderly Care and Implications of Public Long-Term Care Insurance
We estimate a dynamic structural model of labor supply, retirement, and informal care supply, incorporating labor market frictions and the German tax and benefit system. We find that in the absence ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 96, 102884)
I18, I38, J14, J22, J26
16122 Bart Cockx
Sam Desiere
Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104859)
D22, H25, J08, J23, L26, M13
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