financial incentives in attracting a larger and more qualified pool of applicants, (ii) the elasticity of the labor supply …

This paper investigates the impact of financial incentives on early retirement behaviour for high and low wage earners … wage earners are, as predicted by the model, more sensitive to financial incentives. This implies that low wage earners …

Many empirical studies have examined various determinants of crime. However, the link between crime and air pollution … air pollution affects crime by using daily administrative data for the years 2004-05 in London. For identification, we … concentrations. We find that elevated levels of air pollution have a positive and statistically significant impact on overall crime …

We study criminal incentives exploiting the devastating shock of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Evidence shows that the … earthquake decreased burglaries but left other crime types unaffected. The effect stays significant even after controlling for … theory of crime, value and specialization. We conclude that burglars respond to damages that devaluate their prospective …

managerial incentives affect both the mean and dispersion of workers' productivity through two channels. First, managers respond … to incentives by targeting their efforts towards more able workers, implying that both the mean and the dispersion … the interplay between the provision of managerial incentives and earnings inequality among lower-tier workers …