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How financial incentives induce disability insurance recipients to return to work
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2012
countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they … how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable … capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We also show that providing work …
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field? : evidence from non-linear difference-in-differences
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged children. Therefore, a critical element in evaluating universal child care systems is to measure...
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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018
this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work
Kostol, Andreas - 2013
countries have recently modified their programs such that DI recipients are allowed to keep some of their benefits if they … how financial incentives induce DI recipients to return to work. We find that many DI recipients have considerable … capacity to work that can be effectively induced by providing financial work incentives. We further show that providing work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082162
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Economic conditions at birth and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood : evidence from new cohorts
Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2017
Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
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Family welfare cultures
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...
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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 2015
alternative empirical approaches. Our analysis uses a Norwegian population panel data set with detailed information about every …
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Money for nothing? : universal child care and maternal employment
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...
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No child left behind : universal child care and children's long-run outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...
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