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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …
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Do IFO indicators help explain revisions in German industrial production? : presented at CESifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003
Jacobs, Jan; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2004
This paper studies the information content of some Ifo indicators. In particular, we investigate whether two Ifo indicators, one on the current business situation, the other on current production development, provide information on revisions of German industrial production. A new feature of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449259
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"True believers" or numerical terrorism at the nuclear power plant
Kraemer, Walter; Arminger, Gerhard - 2010
For decades, there has been a heated debate about whether or not nuclear power plants contribute to childhood cancer in their respective neighbourhoods, with statisticians testifying on both sides. The present paper points to some flaws in the pro-arguments, taking a recent study prepared for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697105
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Do central banks have precautionary demands for expansions and for price stability? : theory and evidence
Cukierman, Alex; Muscatelli, V. Anton - 2002
This paper analyses the impact of asymmetric preferences with respect to inflation and output by policymakers on interest-rate reaction functions and test for their existence. A modified New Keynesian framework which makes it possible to identify the dominant type of asymmetry is developed and...
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The endowment effect in the general population
Fehr, Dietmar; Kübler, Dorothea - 2022
We study the endowment effect and expectation-based reference points in the field leveraging the setup of the Socio-Economic Panel. Households receive a small item for taking part in the panel, and we randomly assign respondents either a towel or a notebook, which they can exchange at the end of...
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The welfare economics of reference dependence
Reck, Daniel; Seibold, Arthur - 2022
Empirical evidence suggests that individuals often evaluate options relative to a reference point, especially seeking to avoid losses. In this paper, we provide the first welfare analysis under reference-dependent preferences. We decompose the welfare impact of changes in reference points and...
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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
application avoids micro-aggregation of the data and explicitly considers sampling weights in the econometric estimation. The …
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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The contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to longevity growth in Germany and France
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010
I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I examine the effect of the vintage of prescription drugs (and other variables) on the life expectancy and age-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using...
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