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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts

Koning, Pierre; Meerendonk, Arthur van de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

This discussion paper led to an article in the European Economic Review (2014). Vol. 71(October), pages 1-14. This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of...

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Contracting out, an Empirical Study on Motives

Wassenaar, Mattheus; Groot, Tom; Gradus, Raymond - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … provision of their activities. Only in case of structural underperformance, municipalities consider a change of service provider …

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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of...

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Welfare State and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Public Health Care

Laamanen, Jani-Petri; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

We examine the effect of publicly provided health care on welfare by combining local level data on public health care, and individual level data on life satisfaction. It is shown that relatively high expenditures in health care have a positive effect on individuals' life satisfaction in our...

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Making Work pay for the Indebted. The Effect of Debt Services on the Exit Rates of Unemployed Individuals

Koning, Pierre - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...

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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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The ABC of Housing Strategies: Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective in Enhancing Children's Well Being?

Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper examines the effect of a housing assistance program on school enrollment, child labor and poverty reduction among poor families in Ecuador. Administrative data is merged to a household panel to link the history of a voucher application with socioeconomic information. Two empirical...

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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter eligibility criteria and reduced generosity. Women subject to the more stringent rule experience greater rates of hospitalization and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual...

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Measuring and Explaining the Limited Take-up of the Housing Benefit in the Netherlands

Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and othermeans tested benefits is substantially below 100%. In order to measure non-take up oneusually has to simulate entitlement to the benefits. In this paper we take a closer look atthe quality of the simulation. We find...

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Do Polls create Momentum in Political Competition?

Denter, Philipp; Sisak, Dana - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We explore how public opinion polls affect candidates' campaign spending in political competition. Generally, polls lead to (more) asymmetric behavior. Under a majority rule there always exists an equilibrium in which the initially more popular candidate invests more in the campaign and thereby...

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