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Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013

Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...

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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021

This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...

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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...

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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an...

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Digital interventions to increase financial knowledge : evidence from a pilot RCT

Oberrauch, Luis; Kaiser, Tim - 2024

We study the effects of low-intensity digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students' financial knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial education treatment and an incentive-based approach...

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Non-compete agreements, tacit knowledge and market imperfections

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Zona Mattioli, … - 2024

This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the importance of workers' tacit knowledge about firms' intangible assets for competition in product and labor markets. Evidence is presented on product and labor market imperfections across manufacturing and services firms in the...

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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives

Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor); … - 2008

Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e … enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices' for serving different demographic subgroups of clients, influence case … change the composition of their enrollee populations in response to changes in the incentives, increasing the relative …

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Incentives and the sorting of altruistic agents into street-level bureaucracies

Buurman, Margaretha (contributor); … - 2008

Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the implications of its personnel policy on the self-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ...

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Vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs : evidence from the Hartz reform in Germany

Rinne, Ulf (contributor); Uhlendorff, Arne (contributor); … - 2008

This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective...

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Cream-skimming, parking and other intended and unintended effects of performance-based contracting in social welfare services

Koning, Pierre; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - 2010

In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based incentive contracts stress their potential unintended effects, including cream-skimming and other...

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