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Job Lock: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

created at age 65 through the qualification for Medicare. Using a novel procedure for identifying age in months from matched … evidence that job mobility increases at the age 65 threshold when Medicare eligibility starts. We also do not find evidence …

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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

discontinuity created at age 65 through the qualification for Medicare. Using a novel procedure of identifying age in months from …

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The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Christelis, Dimitris; Georgarakos, Dimitris; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

through Medicare and the associated reduction in health-related background risk on financial risk-taking. Given the onset of … Medicare at age 65, we identify our effect of interest using a regression discontinuity approach. We find that getting Medicare …

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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …

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Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...

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