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Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is...

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Academics Appreciate Awards - A New Aspect of Incentives in Research

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - CESifo - 2009

complement, or even substitute for, monetary incentives. While we discuss awards in the context of academia, our conclusions …

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Withering Academia?

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking …

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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance

Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - CESifo - 2013

The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - CESifo - 2012

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy

Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2012

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … welfare enhancing policy intervention. We discuss the extent to which existing measures in family policy are suitable to …

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Policies against Human Trafficking: The Role of Religion and Political Institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using the new 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index. The dataset contains 175 countries. The results show that governments in countries with Christian majorities implement stricter...

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - CESifo - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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Trapped at Home: The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on their Subsequent Work Career

Drange, Nina; Rege, Mari - CESifo - 2012

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers’ incentives to withdraw from the labor market when...

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