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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5760 Olivia Ekert-Jaffe
Shoshana Grossbard
Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure
This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order ...
(published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2015, 22(2), 80-100)
J13, J22
5759 Luc Bissonnette
Arthur van Soest
The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups
We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:2)
D84, H55, J26
5755 Wolfgang Höchtl
Rudolf Kerschbamer
Rudi Stracke
Uwe Sunde
Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?
This paper studies the performance of promotion tournaments with heterogeneous participants in two dimensions: incentive provision and selection. Our theoretical analysis reveals a trade-off for the ...
(revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285)
M52, J33
5753 Peter Kooreman
Erik W. Baars
Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 13(6), 769-776)
I11, I12
5752 Barbara Hanel
Regina T. Riphahn
The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (2), 146-176)
J21, J13, J18
5750 Kate H. Choi
Marta Tienda
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Mathias Sinning
Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social ...
(published in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2012, 30 (1), 49-62)
F22, I24
5749 Silke Anger
The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills' in: John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 393 - 421 )
J10, J24, I20
5748 Govert Bijwaard
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exist. In the growing literate on multiple spell multiple states duration models, or multistate ...
(revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620)
C41, J61
5747 Stefan Bauernschuster
Oliver Falck
Ludger Woessmann
Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89)
Z13, J24
5746 Alessandra Catozzella
Marco Vivarelli
Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries ...
(short version published as ' The possible adverse impact of innovation subsidies: some evidence from a bivariate switching model' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (1), 648-661)
O32, O38
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