the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … shocks to the primary household earner should have more negative consequences for child education – it is especially maternal … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to …

This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both … over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a significant determinant of variations in labor … a short-run impact and the interregional effect as a longterm consequence of public infrastructure investment. …

salient. Using experimental data we show that salience affects young men and women differently, even after controlling for …

tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …

the immigrant share increases. Our results indicate that in the elections some Danish voters voice their displeasure about …

-tax policies that do not harm their relative chances in the elections. In the experiment, we find that lobbying is never successful …

data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey in which 2,513 non-Finnish respondents evaluated the facial … municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters – especially those to …

network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative … Internet effect between national and local elections to a crowding out of national but not local newspapers. …