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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and treat correlated information as independent. In consequence, people's beliefs are excessively sensitive to well …-connected information sources, implying a pattern of "overshooting" beliefs. Additionally, in an experimental asset market, correlation …
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Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims...
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Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Juarez, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más – a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey and a triple difference approach, we find that...
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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Based on individual longitudinal data, we examine the evolution of employment and earnings of post‐EU accession Eastern European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly vulnerable to the negative labour demand shock...
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
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Pension and the Family
Komura, Mizuki; Ogawa, Hikaru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary household in which no heterogeneity exists between the wife and the husband. This paper departs from the OLG model and focuses on the marital bargaining arising from the...
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