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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6780 Rolf Ketzler
Klaus F. Zimmermann
A Citation-Analysis of Economic Research Institutes
The citation analysis of the research output of the German economic research institutes presented here is based on publications in peer-reviewed journals listed in the Social Science Citation Index ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2013, 95 (3), 1095-1112)
A11, C53, I23, L31
6777 Laszlo Goerke
Markus Pannenberg
Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform
In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 13–25)
I18, J51, J22
6775 Ansgar H. Belke
Lukas Vogel
Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2015, 12 (3), 375-392)
D78, E52, E61, F36
6774 Diego Ubfal
How General Are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates
This paper tests the broadly adopted assumption that people apply a single discount rate to the utility from different sources of consumption. Using unique data from two surveys conducted in rural ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 118: 150-170.)
D01, D91, O1
6773 Rudi Rocha
Rodrigo R. Soares
Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 112, 72–91)
I15, I18, H51, Q54
6772 Mehtabul Azam
Céline Ferré
Mohamed Ihsan Ajwad
Did Latvia's Public Works Program Mitigate the Impact of the 2008-2010 Crisis?
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that ...
(revised version published as 'Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? The case of Latvia' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:10)
I38, J64, J68
6771 Christian Bayer
Falko Juessen
Happiness and the Persistence of Income Shocks
We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a novel two-step estimation procedure that allows applying instrumental variable ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015, 7 (4), 160–187)
E21, D12, D60
6770 Núria Rodríguez-Planas
School and Drugs: Closing the Gap - Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US
We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results ...
(substantially revised verion published in: Journal of Behavior & Economics, 2017, 139, 166-181 )
C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
6769 Cain Polidano
Domenico Tabasso
Yi-Ping Tseng
A Second Chance at Education for Early School Leavers
Despite efforts to engage youth in education, there have been only modest improvements in the rates of school completion across OECD countries since the mid-1990s. These modest improvements underline ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(3), 358-375)
I20, J01
6768 Hong Liu
Zhong Zhao
Impact of China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the ...
(published as 'Does Health Insurance Matter? Evidence from China's Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 1007-1020 )
I13, G22, H43
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