's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the ratio of behavioral cost to mechanical cost of this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than other … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade. …

a reform in Finland that increased the level of unemployment assistance by 22%. The reform led to a drop of 9% in the …

particular generate in two important sectors - transport and agriculture - in two MENA countries, Egypt (transport) and Yemen …

resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on the … structural reform. Hence, it must be caused by other reasons. These can be for instance - as public choice scholars argue … - interventions by veto players, wars of attrition by powerful interest groups, or reform logjams initiated. However, another point of …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …

experimental variation in program design is unavailable, we exploit the 2011 reform of the current German SUS program for the … estimate the impact of the reform on the program's effectiveness using samples of participants and non-participants from before … and after the reform. To control for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity as well as differential selection patterns …

surprisingly open to education reform and favors clear performance orientation. Survey experiments indicate that information can …