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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is … effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. Falsification tests reveal that the effect is specific … to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that …
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subsidy scheme improved childcare affordability. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the scheme on the labour supply … that recent (2023) reforms of the NCS, which increase the generosity and the scope of the subsidy, will increase mothers …
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-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job …
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How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It...
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We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
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We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
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optimal uniform subsidy is lower than the "Pigouvian" level. Conversely, under a non-linear policy the first-best "Pigouvian …" rule for the (marginal) subsidy on informal care is reestablished. While the share of high career mothers continues to be …
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to compare participants of a German start-up subsidy program for unemployed individuals to a group of regular founders … who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business … dynamics. Considering these conflicting results for the assessment of the subsidy program from an ALMP and business perspective …
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This paper examines how employee earnings at small firms respond to a cash flow shock in the form of a government R&D grant. We use ranking data on applicant firms, which we link to IRS W2 earnings and other U.S. Census Bureau datasets. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income inequality. Causal effects are identified based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement...
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