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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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6323
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Chiara
Criscuolo
Ralf
Martin
Henry
Overman
John
Van Reenen
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in ...
(pubished as 'Some Causal Effects pubished as 'Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (1), 48–85of an Industrial Policy' in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (1), 48–85)
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H25, L52, L53, O47
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6322
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Michael
Gibbs
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Design and Implementation of Pay for Performance
A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, which provides a useful framework for thinking about pay for performance systems. I use the lessons of the literature ...
(published in: C. R. Thomas and W. F. Shughart II (eds.), Oxford Handbook in Managerial Economics, Oxford University Press, 2013, 397-423)
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M52, J33, M12, L81
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6321
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Richard
Akresh
Damien
de Walque
Harounan
Kazianga
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. ...
(published in: NBER African Successes: Human Capital, volume 2. 2016. Editors, S. Edwards, S. Johnson, D. Weil, University of Chicago Press.)
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I15, I38, J13, O15
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6320
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 544–565)
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I31, J64
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6316
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Florian
Lindner
Matthias
Sutter
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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Many tournaments are plagued by sabotage among competitors. Typically, sabotage is welfare-reducing, but from an individual's perspective an attractive alternative to exerting positive effort. Yet, ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (4), 425-441)
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C93, D03, L83, M51, M52
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6315
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Pedro
Carneiro
Rita
Ginja
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Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 135-173)
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C21, I28, I38
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6314
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Nick
Drydakis
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The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants
This study evaluates the effect of ethnic identity on the employment level of immigrants in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of key cultural elements the estimations suggest that ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (2), 285-308)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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6313
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Johannes
Koettl
Michael
Weber
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
The analysis presented in this paper defines three different synthetic measurements of disincentives for formal work: two standard measurements, namely the tax wedge and the marginal effective tax ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 34, 2012)
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H26, J32, O17
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6311
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Felipe
Kast
Stephan
Meier
Dina
Pomeranz
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not ...
(revised version published as 'Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 133, 275-294. )
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O16, D03, D14, D91
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6310
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Franz
Hackl
Martin
Halla
Michael
Hummer
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
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The Effectiveness of Health Screening
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals' health status and health care cost. To account for ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (8), 913-935)
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I10, I18
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