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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8111 Andrew Henley
Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the strength of the potential relationship between entrepreneurial activity and religious affiliation. The relationship between religion and ...
(published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617)
L26, M13, O43, Z12
8110 Joop Hartog
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 125-153)
I21, J22, J24, J31
8109 Tim Friehe
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
Crime and Self-Control Revisited: Disentangling the Effect of Self-Control on Risk and Social Preferences
In economic models, risk and social preferences are major determinants of criminal behavior. In criminology, low self-control is considered a fundamental cause of crime. Relating the arguments from ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2017, 49, 23–32.)
K42, H23, C91
8108 Wendelin Schnedler
Christoph Vanberg
Playing 'Hard to Get': An Economic Rationale for Crowding Out of Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 106–115)
D1, M5, D8, D4, C9
8107 Michal Bauer
Nathan Fiala
Ian Levely
Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1786-1819.)
C93, D03, D74, O12
8106 Teresa Randazzo
Matloob Piracha
Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal
This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153)
F24, O12, O15
8105 Michela Ponzo
Vincenzo Scoppa
Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence from Same-Stadium Derbies
We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19 (4), 562-582)
D89, L83, D81
8104 Gary Charness
Francesco Feri
Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez
Matthias Sutter
Experimental Games on Networks: Underpinnings of Behavior and Equilibrium Selection
In this paper, we describe a series of laboratory experiments that implement specific examples of a more general network structure and we examine equilibrium selection. Specifically, actions are ...
(slightly revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82(5), 1615-1670)
C71, C91, D03, D85
8102 Marco Alberto De Benedetto
Maria De Paola
Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections
We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a ...
(published as 'Candidates' Education and Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections' in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (1), 22 - 50)
D72, D78, J45
8101 Katja Görlitz
Sylvi Rzepka
Does Regional Training Supply Determine Employees' Training Participation?
Using data from the National Educational Panel Study of 2009/2010, this paper investigates the relationship between regional training supply and employees' training participation. Controlling for ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (1), 281-296)
J24, R12
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