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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure … and control expenditure ; transition economy ; Multilevel Regression Model (MRM) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771054
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Screening disability insurance applications
Jong, Philip R. de (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283428
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Is the notification of monitoring a threat to the unemployed? : A regression discontinuity approach
Cockx, Bart (contributor); Dejemeppe, Muriel (contributor) - 2007
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607617
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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523530
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Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality : evidence from Brazilian municipalities
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - 2012
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537253
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The changing of the guards : can physicians contain social insurance costs?
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole J. - 2013
Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on exogenous shifts of family doctors occurring when physicians quit, retire, or for other reasons sell...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683025
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Punishing free-riders : how group size affects mutual monitoring and the provision of public goods
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452373
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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2013
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212978
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Targeting disability insurance applications with screening
Godard, Mathilde; Koning, Pierre; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2019
We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using exogenous variation in screening induced by a policy reform. The reform raised DI application costs and revealed more information about the true disability status of applicants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006211
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Click'n'roll : no evidence of illusion of control
Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - 2015
Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent … dissonant result across disciplines is due to the fact that economists have implemented only one form of illusory control. We … identify and separately tests in an incentive-compatible design two types of control: a) over the resolution of uncertainty, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517137