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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333279
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The IZA evaluation dataset: Towards evidence-based labor policy-making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - 2010
survey data also contain information on search behavior, ethnic and social networks, psychological factors, (non …-)cognitive abilities, and attitudes. This paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285979
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884147
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
survey data also contain information on search behavior, ethnic and social networks, psychological factors, (non …-)cognitive abilities, and attitudes. This paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805614
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Locus of Control and Investment in Risky Assets
Salamanca, Nicolas; de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier; … - 2016
We show that household heads with a strong internal economic locus of control are more likely to hold equity and hold a larger share of equity in their investment portfolio. This relation holds when we control for economic preferences and possible confounders such as financial literacy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653135
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Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
Caliendo, Marco; Hennecke, Juliane - 2020
Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants … of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can … explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health behavior. LOC measures how much an individual believes that she …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269951
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Socially Optimal Mistakes? Debiasing COVID-19 Mortality Risk Perceptions and Prosocial Behavior
Abel, Martin; Byker, Tanya; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2020
people form COVID-19 mortality risk beliefs and the implications for prosocial behavior. We first document that people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270238
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The Perception of Lethal Risks: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Schubert, Manuel; Brück, Tilman - 2014
We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk reduction. Subjects play a series of loss lotteries in which the odds are matched to the likelihood of lethal events in real life. For each risk, subjects can pay premiums in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435266
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The Perception of Lethal Risks: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Schubert, Manuel; Brück, Tilman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk reduction. Subjects play a series of loss lotteries in which the odds are matched to the likelihood of lethal events in real life. For each risk, subjects can pay premiums in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959599
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The religious affiliation and anti-semitism of secondary school Swedish youths: A statistical analysis of survey data from 2003 and 2009
Bevelander, Pieter; Hjerm, Mikael; Kiiskinen, Jenny - 2013
anti-Semitic attitudes and incidents in recent decades. The latter is also depicted as being related to the Israeli … innate and fairly stable over the life cycle, examining adolescents' attitudes is vitally important because they can help us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293241