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. Nevertheless, the incentives to replicate are seldom in place in the sciences, especially within the social sciences. We propose a …
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The debate between quot;structuralquot; and quot;reduced-formquot; approaches has generated substantial controversy in applied economics. This article reviews a recent literature in public economics that combines the advantages of reduced-form strategies -- transparent and credible...
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This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
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large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina testing the effectiveness of information, social and economic incentives …. We find that only higher-valued economic incentives generated more donations, increasing in the value of the incentive …. These incentives did not create adverse selection in the safety and usability of the donated blood. We discuss the …
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Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...
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at approximately age 57. Thus, older workers face strong incentives to earn enough to obtain creditable coverage through …
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Pre-College human capital investment occurs within a competitive environment and depends on market incentives created …
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When economic agents make decisions on the basis of an information set containing both a continuous variable and a discrete signal based on that variable, theory suggests that the signal should have no bearing on behavior conditional on the variable itself. Numerous empirical studies, many based...
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paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to study the role of health and financial incentives in early retirement … decisions in Germany, in particular disability benefit uptake. We show that financial incentives to retire do affect sick …
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perverse incentives to distort the attribute upon which compliance depends. We develop a theoretical framework to predict how …
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