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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
6725 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
Michael Vlassopoulos
Cheating in the Workplace: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Bonuses and Productivity
We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with workplace cheating. Firms often use bonus-based compensation plans, such as group ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 120-134)
C91, J33
6723 John V. Winters
Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers
Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:11)
I20, J24, R23
6722 Luis Diaz-Serrano
Enric Meix-Llop
Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing ...
(published as 'Decentralization and the Quality of Public Services: Cross-Country Evidence from Educational Data' in: Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, 2019, 37 (7), 1296-1316)
H11, H77, I21
6720 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz
Prediction Markets for Economic Forecasting
Prediction markets – markets used to forecast future events – have been used to accurately forecast the outcome of political contests, sporting events, and, occasionally, economic outcomes. This ...
(published in: Handbook of Economic Forecasting, 2013, 2A, 657-684)
C5, G14
6718 Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 839-871)
L14, I21
6716 Mirco Tonin
Michael Vlassopoulos
Social Incentives Matter: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment' in: Management Science, 2015, 61(8), 1795-1811)
D64, J24, J32, L3, M14, M52
6714 Søren Dalsgaard
Helena Skyt Nielsen
Marianne Simonsen
The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based ...
(substantially extended version available as IZA DP#8208)
I1
6713 Herbert Brücker
Elke J. Jahn
Richard Upward
Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 205-225)
F22, J31, J61
6712 Riemer Faber
Pierre Koning
Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?
This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (1), 60 - 95 )
H77, H20, H71, I38
6710 Paolo Crosetto
Antonio Filippin
The "Bomb" Risk Elicitation Task
This paper presents the Bomb Risk Elicitation Task (BRET), an intuitive procedure aimed at measuring risk attitudes. Subjects decide how many boxes to collect out of 100, one of which containing a ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2013, 47(1), 31-65)
C81, C91, D81
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