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7953 Nicky Hoogveld
Nick Zubanov
The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students at a Dutch university. Our treatment, given unannounced in randomly selected ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 67, 75-84)
C93, M52
7952 Stephen V. Burks
Connor Lewis
Paul Kivi
Amanda Wiener
Jon E. Anderson
Lorenz Götte
Colin G. DeYoung
Aldo Rustichini
Moving Ahead by Thinking Backwards: Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success
We collected personality (Big Five) and demographic characteristics, and ran incentivized experiments measuring cognitive skills (non-verbal IQ, numeracy, backward induction/ planning), and economic ...
(revised version published as 'Cognitive Skills, Personality, and Economic Preferences in Collegiate Success' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 30–44)
D03, I21, C99
7951 Nadine Ketel
Jona Linde
Hessel Oosterbeek
Bas van der Klaauw
Tuition Fees as a Commitment Device
This paper reports on a field experiment testing for sunk-cost effects in an education setting. Students signing up for extra-curricular tutorial sessions randomly received a discount on the tuition ...
(published as 'Tuition Fees and Sunk-Cost Effects' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (598), 2342-2362)
C93, D03, I22
7950 Frank M. Fossen
Daniela Glocker
Stated and Revealed Heterogeneous Risk Preferences in Educational Choice
Stated survey measures of risk preferences are increasingly being used in the literature, and they have been compared to revealed risk aversion primarily by means of experiments such as lottery ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 1-25.)
I20, D81
7948 Dominique Goux
Marc Gurgand
Eric Maurin
Adjusting Your Dreams? The Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behaviour
At the end of middle school, many low achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disappointment and eventually lead them to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (602), 1025-1046)
I21, I24, J18
7947 Marco Caliendo
Markus Gehrsitz
Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relationship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 209-225)
J31, J71, C14
7946 Yuval Arbel
Ronen Bar-El
Erez Siniver
Yossef Tobol
The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty
We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that ...
(published as 'Roll a Die and Tell a Lie: What Affects Honesty?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107, 153-172)
C91, D63, Z12
7944 Chris M. Herbst
Joanna Lucio
Happy in the Hood? The Impact of Residential Segregation on Self-Reported Happiness
Previous research consistently finds that racially-based residential segregation is associated with poor economic, health, and social outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (3), 494 - 521)
J10
7942 Terence Chai Cheng
Nattavudh Powdthavee
Andrew J. Oswald
Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets
There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a 'U shape'). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (599), 126 - 142)
I31, D01, C18
7941 Braz Camargo
Rafael Camelo
Sergio Firpo
Vladimir Ponczek
Information, Market Incentives, and Student Performance
This paper uses a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rules of the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 414-444)
I20, I21
7939 Murat Güray Kirdar
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur
Ismet Koc
Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Schooling by Gender and Rural/Urban Residence?
This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (3), 549-579.)
I21, I24, I28, J15, J16
7938 Marco Casari
Maurizio Lisciandra
Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance ...
(published as 'Gender Discrimination in Property Rights: Six Centuries of Commons Governance in the Alps' in: Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76 (2), 559 - 594 )
J16, N53, Q20
7937 Shoshana Grossbard
Victoria Vernon
Common Law Marriage and Male/Female Convergence in Labor Supply and Time Use
Does availability of common law marriage (CLM henceforth) in the U.S help explain variation in the labor force participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Gender Convergence in the Labor Market), 2015, 41,43-175)
J12, J16, J22, K36
7936 Jörn Block
Laszlo Goerke
José María Millán
Concepción Román
Family Employees and Absenteeism
Work effort varies greatly across employees, as evidenced by substantial differences in absence rates. Moreover, absenteeism causes sizeable output losses. Using data from the European Community ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 94-99)
I10, J22, M50
7933 Takao Asano
Hiroko Okudaira
Masaru Sasaki
An Experimental Test of a Search Model under Ambiguity
This paper's objective is to design a laboratory experiment to explore the effect of ambiguity on a subject's search behavior in a finite-horizon sequential search model. In so doing, we employ a new ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 627-637 )
C91, D81
7932 Zhixin Dai
Robin M. Hogarth
Marie Claire Villeval
Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
We investigate the impact of various audit schemes on the future provision of public goods, when contributing less than the average of the group is sanctioned exogenously and the probability of an ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 74, 146-162)
C92, H41, D83
7931 Michael Lechner
Nazmi Sari
Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 1 - 15)
I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
7930 Jason M. Lindo
Peter Siminski
Oleg Yerokhin
Breaking the Link Between Legal Access to Alcohol and Motor Vehicle Accidents: Evidence from New South Wales
A large literature has documented significant public health benefits associated with the minimum legal drinking age in the United States, particularly because of the resulting effects on motor ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (7), 908 - 928)
I18, K32
7928 Isaac Ehrlich
Yong Yin
Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?
The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Capital, 7(4), 411-447)
I1, I15, O4, E24
7926 Laura Hospido
Gema Zamarro
Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3:12, 2014)
J26, D10, C21
7925 Giovanni Mastrobuoni
The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288)
A14, C21, D23, D85, K42, Z13
7923 Pierpaolo Parrotta
Dario Pozzoli
Davide Sala
Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 248-263)
J15, F14, F15, F16, D22
7922 Massimiliano Bratti
Chiara Conti
The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' ...
(revised version published as "The effect of immigration on innovation in italy" in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (7), 934-947)
O3, J2
7920 Pieter Bevelander
Mikael Spĺng
From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
D72, J15, J61
7919 Arthur Sweetman
Jan C. van Ours
Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?
Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of ...
(published in: B.R. Chiswick and P.W. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1b, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1141-1193)
J15
7918 Sergio Firpo
Vladimir Ponczek
Viviane Sanfelice
The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, 186-198)
H7
7917 Philipp Doerrenberg
Denvil Duncan
Christopher Zeppenfeld
Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure
This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 109, 85 - 100)
G11, H21, H24, H26, J22
7916 Richard Blundell
Michael Graber
Magne Mogstad
Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 58-73)
C33, D3, D91, J31
7915 Konstantinos Pouliakas
A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country ...
(revised version published in: K. Pouliakas and I. Psifidou (eds.), Greece: Vocational education and training in economic change', Education in the European Union Pre-2003 Member States, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015)
C25, I29, J11, J20, J24, J69
7914 Yasuhiro Sato
Yves Zenou
How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 75, 131-155.)
J61, R14, R23
7913 Anna Godoy
Knut Rřed
Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment
Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 158–179)
C41, J65
7912 Jonas Maibom
Michael Rosholm
Michael Svarer
Can Active Labour Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment?
Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment following the Great Recession. We consider this issue for Denmark, a country ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 215-262)
J0, J64
7911 Ximena V Del Carpio
Julián Messina
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 358-382)
J31, D31
7909 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Kevin Reynolds
Rebecca Searle
The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On
We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic ...
(published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 180 (2), 45 5- 474.)
N34, I32, J12
7907 Sumon K. Bhaumik
Ralitza Dimova
Ira N. Gang
Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 242-253)
Q12, O2, O13, J16
7906 Daron Acemoglu
David Autor
David Dorn
Gordon H. Hanson
Brendan Price
Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5), 394-399)
O3, J2, L6
7905 Maria Knoth Humlum
Jannie H. G. Kristoffersen
Rune Majlund Vejlin
Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions
The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48: 215-230)
I2, J12, J13
7904 Matthias Krapf
Heinrich W. Ursprung
Christian Zimmermann
Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as ...
(published in:Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 140, 147-175)
J13, I23, J24
7902 Michela Braga
Marco Paccagnella
Michele Pellizzari
The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors
This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 781-822.)
I20, M55
7899 Sandra E. Black
Jane Arnold Lincove
Jenna Cullinane
Rachel Veron
Can You Leave High School Behind?
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, June 2015)
I20
7898 Verena Wondratschek
Karin Edmark
Markus Frölich
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102)
I20, C21
7897 Christian Dustmann
Patrick A. Puhani
Uta Schönberg
The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice
Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380)
I21, J10
7896 Nikos Askitas
Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, ...
(published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485)
C71, C73, C57, D87
7895 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Georgi Kocharkov
Cezar Santos
Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 348-353)
D31, J11, J12, J22
7894 Tim Friehe
Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality ...
(published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146)
K42, D03, D81, D90, C21, C91
7893 Donal O'Neill
Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard
Reliable measures of body composition are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 17, 116-128.)
I18, C38
7892 Simen Markussen
Knut Rřed
The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Based on local variations in vocational rehabilitation (VR) priorities, we examine the impacts of alternative VR programs on short- and long-term labor market outcomes for temporary disability ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.)
C21, C26, H55, I38, J24
7891 Andrea Bassanini
Eve Caroli
Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119-120, 13-37)
I10, I31, J22, J28
7890 Philipp Doerrenberg
Sebastian Siegloch
Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 66-69)
D8, J2, J6
7888 Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira
Teresa Lloyd-Braga
Leonor Modesto
Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms
We study employment dynamics using an OLG model with unemployment benefits and universal old-age survival pensions, both financed by taxing employed workers. The novelty is that we explicitly ...
(published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72)
E32, H23, H31, J65
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