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Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rønning, Marte - 2014

There exists a strong educational gradient in cancer risk, which has been documented in a wide range of populations. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an...

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Disability in the welfare state : an unemployment problem in disguise?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...

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Leaving poverty behind? : the effects of generous income support paired with activation

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2014

reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous …

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Getting disabled workers back to work : how important are economic incentives?

Fevang, Elisabeth; Hardoy, Inés; Røed, Knut - 2013

disability and unemployment. -- temporary disability ; rehabilitation ; hazard rate models ; labor supply …

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Prison rehabilitation programs: efficiency and targeting

Arbour, William; Lacroix, Guy; Marchand, Steeve - 2021

upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown …. This paper finds that participation in social rehabilitation programs while incarcerated can significantly reduce … for successful rehabilitation. We also find considerable heterogeneous program treatment effects: inmates with a high …

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Homo reciprocans : survey evidence on prevalence, behavior and success

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

Experimental evidence has convincingly shown the existence of reciprocal inclinations, i.e., a tendency for people to respond in-kind to hostile or kind actions. Little is known, however, about: (i) the prevalence of reciprocity in the population, (ii) individual determinants of reciprocity,...

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Overconfidence in absolute and relative performance : the regression hypothesis and Bayesian updating

Grieco, Daniela; Hogarth, Robin M. - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 30 (2009) 5, pp. 756-771

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An evolutionary psychological perspective on social capital

Kanazawa, Satoshi; Savage, Joanne - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 30 (2010) 6, pp. 873-883

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"The way in which an experiment is conducted is unbelievably Important" : on the experimentation practices of economists and psychologists

Ortmann, Andreas - 2009

To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are - arguably more often than not - sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the use...

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Simply a matter of luck & looks? : predicting elections when both the world economy and the psychology of faces count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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