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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
migration lottery in order to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on objective and subjective well-being. The …
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Who Is the Enemy?
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703639
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Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous Source of Variation in Income
Lindahl, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
that is due to a truly exogenous factor: the monetary lottery prizes of individuals. The findings are that higher income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005702996
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and …
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Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery
Hassink, Wolter; Koning, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing … firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous three months and not having won the lottery … earlier. It turns out that the lottery results in a decrease in the rate of sick leave of 1.6 percentage point. From the …
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