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Long-term returns to local health-care spending

Cerveny, Jakub; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in …-hospital deaths to in-hospital end-oflife spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In our analysis …, we use detailed administrative data on individual personal characteristics and information about health-care expenses at …

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Carrot and stick : how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan C. van - 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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No novelty effect but a honeymoon that lasts : on the attendance effects of new football stadiums

Ours, Jan C. van - 2024

In US-based studies focusing on the impact of new sports stadiums on attendance, a recurring observation is the temporary nature of the initial positive effect, commonly described as a novelty or honeymoon effect. This paper revisits the attendance effects of new sports stadiums in a European...

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How sensitive are sports fans to unemployment?

Reade, J. James; Ours, Jan C. van - 2021

We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a very long period of time. More unemployment leads to lower attendances. Distinguishing between leagues, we find that the relationship is larger for lower leagues, i.e. attendance...

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Johan Cruyff and his contribution to success and stadium attendance at Feyenoord

Ours, Jan C. van - 2021

In his last season as professional football player, Johan Cruyff played at Feyenoord. This paper shows that Cruyff improved the performance of his team and provides evidence of his presence attracting more stadium attendants to the home ground. From this it is concluded that Cruyff made a...

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Do childhood experiences of parental separation lead to homelessness?

Moschion, Julie; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

This paper investigates the effect of parental separation on homelessness. Previous studies are limited in their ability to isolate this effect and can only provide descriptive evidence that parental separations relate to reductions in housing quality and stability. Using a unique dataset of...

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How outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality affect stadium attendance in Dutch professional football

Besters, Lucas; Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2018

We investigate stadium attendance in the highest level of Dutch professional football for the seasons 2000/01 - 2015/16 focusing on outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality. We find that for individual football matches, attendance is related to reference-dependent preferences with...

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Common international trends in football stadium attendance

Ours, Jan C. van - 2020

This paper examines long-term developments in stadium attendance in professional football in the Netherlands. As in many other European countries attendance had a U-shaped development with the lowest numbers in the mid-1980s. The developments in the Netherlands do not seem to have been affected...

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Consumer perceptions matter : a case study of an anomaly in English football

Reade, J. James; Ours, Jan C. van - 2024

In 1983 England's fifth-tier football competition introduced a two-points-for-ahome-win and three-points-for-an-away-win reward system. This system was abolished after three seasons. The anomalous point system may have been introduced to reduce home advantage but the reasons are not fully clear...

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The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility … status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects mental health of both themselves and their partners. Single men … retiring experience a drop in mental health. Female retirement has hardly any effect on their own mental health or the mental …

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