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Co-authorship and Academic Productivity in Economics: Interaction Maps from the Complex Networks Approach
Molina, José Alberto; Alcolea, Alberto; Ferrer, Alfredo; … - 2016
We explore the relationship between collaborations in writing papers and the academic productivity of economists and …, particularly, we describe the magnitude and intensity of co-authorship among economists. To that end, we employ interaction maps …-WOK, published by 5,188 economists from Spanish institutions, and their co-authors, up to 8,202 researchers, from 2002 to 2014, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524939
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
Praag, C. Mirjam van; Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763784
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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329014
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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The Impact of Eliminating a Child Benefit on Birth Timing and Infant Health
Borra, Cristina; Gonzalez, Libertad; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014
We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In May 2010, the government announced that a 2,500-euro universal baby bonus would stop being paid to babies born on or after January 1st, 2011. We use detailed micro data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333291
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Information, Belief Elicitation and Threshold Effects in the 5X1000 Tax Scheme: A Framed Field Experiment
Becchetti, Leonardo; Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2017
In this paper we study by means of a framed field experiment on a representative sample of the population the effect on people's charitable giving of three, substantial and procedural, elements: information provision, belief elicitation and threshold on distribution. We frame this investigation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653438
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On Event Study Designs and Distributed-Lag Models: Equivalence, Generalization and Practical Implications
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019
We discuss important features and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive the following main results: First, event study designs and distributed-lag models are numerically identical leading to the same parameter estimates after correct reparametrization. Second, binning of effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984639
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Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy
Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019
We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059129
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Skating on Thin Evidence: Implications for Public Policy
Doucouliagos, Chris; Paldam, Martin; Stanley, T. D. - 2018
Good public policy needs to be evidence based. However, the evidence base is thin for many policy issues. How can policy makers best respond to such thin areas of research that are also quite likely to change over time? Our survey investigates the evolution of the econometric evidence base for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873428
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What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
Lechner, Michael; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2003
We investigate the allocation of unemployed individuals to different subprograms within Swiss active labour market policy by the caseworkers at local employment offices in Switzerland in 1998. We are particularly interested in whether the caseworkers allocate the unemployed to services in ways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261975