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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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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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6309
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Cristina
Lopez-Mayan
Catia
Nicodemo
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Vocational High School or Vocational College? Comparing the Transitions from School to Work
Using a specific micro-dataset with information on working histories, we analyse the labour market entry of Spanish youths who have completed vocational education. According to the education system, ...
(revised version published as 'The Transition from Vocational Education to Work: Evidence from Spain' in: Revista de Economia Aplicada, 2015, 67(23), 93-130)
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J13, J24, I20
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6307
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Robert
Scholte
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 39, 17–30)
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I10, I12, J01, J10, J13, J24
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