CEE DP 65 Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS Andreas Ammermueller Jörn-Steffen Pischke May 2006 Published by Centre for the Economics of Education London School of Economics Houghton Street...

Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...