Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 235
Cover Image
Are there no wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany? : a reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547022
Cover Image
The structure of multinational firms' international activities
Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020
The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174819
Cover Image
A journal-based replication of "Being Chosen to Lead"
Drazen, Allan; Dreber, Anna; Ozbay, Erkut Y.; Snowberg, Erik - 2019
: journal-based replication, in which the publishing journal contracts for a replication between acceptance and publication. We … discuss what we learned from a proof-of-concept journal-based replication at the Journal of Public Economics. Our experience … indicates that journal-based replication would be relatively straightforward to implement for laboratory experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123043
Cover Image
Knowledge transfers from multinational to domestic firms : evidence from worker mobility : a replication-robustness study of poole (2013)
Haller, Stefanie; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Balsvik, Ragnhild - 2023
This paper replicates Poole (2013) using comprehensive Norwegian and Irish register data. Our results largely confirm the evidence documented in Poole for Brazil which suggests that when workers leave multinationals and are rehired at domestic establishments, the wages of their new coworkers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364729
Cover Image
Remittances, banking status and the usage of insurance schemes
Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Ströh de Martínez, … - 2010
Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique data set on the usage patterns of financial services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983213
Cover Image
Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance : evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966524
Cover Image
A history of violence : field evidence on trauma, discounting and present bias
Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A.; Mironova, Vera - 2015
The extent to which individuals discount the future and whether they discount in a time-consistent fashion is an important determinant of their life outcomes. Using a field experiment in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we show that direct exposure to violence substantially increases present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515369
Cover Image
Do natural disasters stimulate individual saving? : evidence from a natural experiment in a highly developed country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Tutt, Jascha - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518804
Cover Image
Does homeownership promote wealth accumulation?
Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar - 2016
It is well known that homeowners are richer than renters, even after controlling for observable characteristics. This is often used as an argument for policies that foster homeownership. However, the causal link between homeownership and wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429581
Cover Image
The standard portfolio choice problem in Germany
Huck, Steffen; Schmidt, Tobias; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2015
We study an investment experiment conducted with a representative sample of German households. Respondents invest in a safe asset and a risky asset whose return is tied to the German stock market. Experimental investments correlate with beliefs about stock market returns and exhibit desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298558