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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
5609 Mathieu Lefèbvre
Pierre Pestieau
Arno Riedl
Marie Claire Villeval
Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without information about ...
(revised version published as 'Tax Evasion and Social Information: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 22, 401-425.)
H26, H31, I38, C91
5608 Olivier B. Bargain
Olivier Donni
Optimal Commodity Taxation and Redistribution within Households
Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 48-62)
D13, D31, D63, H21, H31
5606 Christophe Rault
Anne-Gaël Vaubourg
Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment: Does Finance Matter?
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (1), 43 - 64)
E24, J23, P17
5605 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
John Eric Humphries
Identification Problems in Personality Psychology
This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are ...
(published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 315-320)
D01, D03, D89
5603 Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
Thomas Seegmuller
Market Distortions and Local Indeterminacy: A General Approach
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 151, 216–247)
C62, E32
5602 Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures
Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2014, 14(1), 41-67 )
H51, I11, I18, J22
5601 Nikos Askitas
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Health and Well-Being in the Crisis
The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 26 - 47. )
C81, E32, I1, L86
5600 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jason Abrevaya
"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 351-368)
I30, J10, C20
5599 Hilmar Schneider
Arne Uhlendorff
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts
We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a Berlin city community to integrate young people in social assistance into the labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German ...
(published as 'Econometrics vs. Project Design: Lessons from the Evaluation of a Workfare Project' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 65-85)
J22, J64, H43
5597 Philip Du Caju
François Rycx
Ilan Tojerow
Wage Structure Effects of International Trade: Evidence from a Small Open Economy
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 14 (2), 297-331)
F16, J31
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