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The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation : Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards

Ito, Koichiro - 2014

This paper analyzes "attribute-based regulations," in which regulatory compliance depends upon some secondary attribute that is not the intended target of the regulation. For example, in many countries fuel-economy standards mandate that vehicles have a certain fuel economy, but heavier or...

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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Frederiksen, Anders - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria

van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021

commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …

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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study

Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021

whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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Designing Disability Insurance Reforms : Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits

Haller, Andreas - 2020

policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate …

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Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality? Evidence from 60 Years of Policy Experimentation

Kleven, Henrik - 2020

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by...

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