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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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8021
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Maria
De Paola
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Procrastination, Academic Success and the Effectiveness of a Remedial Program
Procrastination produces harmful effects for human capital investments and studying activities. Using data from a large sample of Italian undergraduates, we measure procrastination with the actual ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 217–236)
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D03, I21, D91, J01, J24
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8020
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Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
Matthias
Sutter
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Donations, Risk Attitudes and Time Preferences: A Study on Altruism in Primary School Children
We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 67-74)
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C91, D03, D63, D64
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8019
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Peter
Fredriksson
Björn
Öckert
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background
Studies on the effect of class size on student achievement typically find that disadvantaged students benefit more from reduced class size than others. To better understand this differential impact, ...
(published as 'Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51(4), 832-868.)
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I21, I28, J24, C31
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8018
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
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Gender Differences in Strategic Behaviour under Competitive Pressure: Evidence on Omission Patterns in University Entrance Examinations
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the nine Finnish universities providing education in economics and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 94-110)
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J16, I21, I23
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8017
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Resul
Cesur
Naci
Mocan
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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country
Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as ...
(published as 'Education, religion, and voter preference in a Muslim country' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (1), 1-44)
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I2, Z12, D72
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8016
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Markus
Nagler
Ludger
Woessmann
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Education Promoted Secularization
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source ...
(published as ''Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany's Secularization Period 1890-1930' in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2017, 22 (3), 273-311)
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Z12, N33, I20
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8015
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?
Tertiary education has been expanding hugely over the last decades, so that tertiary dropout students will constitute a growing distinctive group in future labour markets. University dropout is ...
(revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96)
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I21
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8014
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Naomi
E.
Feldman
Andrew
Leigh
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Crime and Mental Wellbeing
We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (1), 110-140)
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I31, R28
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8013
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Jérôme
Adda
Brendon
McConnell
Imran
Rasul
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Crime and the Depenalization of Cannabis Possession: Evidence from a Policing Experiment
We evaluate the impact on crime of a localized policing experiment that depenalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis in the London borough of Lambeth. Such a policy can: (i) impact the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122(5), 1130-1202)
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H75, J18, K42
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8010
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Gordon
G.
Liu
Ohyun
Kwon
Xindong
Xue
Belton
M.
Fleisher
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a ...
(published as 'How Much Does Social Status Matter to Longevity?-Evidence from China's Academician Election' in: Health Economics, 2017, 26, 292-304.)
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I12
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13006Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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