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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...

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Mismatch, Transport Mode and Search Decisions in England

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a theoretical model in which whites mainly use private vehicles to commute whereas non-whites use public transportation. We show that, for whites and non-whites, higher (time) distance-to-jobs leads to lower search effort. Because of different transport modes, we also show that, at...

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Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We propose a novel mechanism to facilitate understanding of systemic risk in financial markets. The literature on systemic risk has focused on two mechanisms, common shocks and domino-like sequential default. Our approach is a formal model that provides an intellectual combination of the two by...

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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four waves of the AddHealth data, looking at the impact of...

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Multivariate Choice and Identification of Social Interactions

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the impact of peers on own outcomes where all agents embedded in a network choose more than one activity. We develop a simple network model that illustrates these issues. We differentiate between the ‘seemingly unrelated’ simultaneous equations model where...

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Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using...

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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged … individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis … physical and psychological effects of engaging in a criminal activity. Accounting for selection into cannabis use and shared …

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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved … factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use …. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases the likelihood of mental health problems, with current use having a …

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Is Cannabis a Stepping-Stone for Cocaine?

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper uses a unique dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the dynamics in the consumption of cannabis and cocaine. If people start using these drugs they are most likely to do so at age 18-20 for cannabis and age 20-25 for cocaine. An analysis of the starting rates...

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