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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment
Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010
During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...
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Substitution between temporary parental leave and sickness absence
Persson, Malin - 2011
subject to intensified monitoring. Receiving this information decreased utilization of the temporary parental benefit but at …
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Arm-wrestling in the classroom: The non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers
Lichand, Guilherme; Wolf, Sharon - 2020
Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should … paper provides causal evidence that this might result from non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers. Cross …
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Should sickness insurance and health care be administrated by the same jurisdiction? An empirical analysis
Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Martin - 2012
doctor. Since health care is administrated at the county level, this means that monitoring is, to some extent, decentralized …
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Arm-wrestling in the classroom: The non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers
Lichand, Guilherme; Wolf, Sharon - 2021
Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should … paper provides causal evidence that this might result from non-monotonic effects of monitoring teachers. Cross … extent than in schools where only parents are nudged. Monitoring backfires precisely for teachers who were most motivated at …
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Synergizing ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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Rotten kids with bad intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - 2010
We examine a 'Rotten Kid' model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intentionbased rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...
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Firms' moral hazard in sickness absences
Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - 2011
moral hazard problems for firms, leading to the inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in their …
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A Median Voter Model of Health Insurance with Ex Post Moral Hazard
Jacob, Johanna; Lundin, Douglas - 2001
One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly (1968); people face incentives for excess utilization of medical care since they do not pay the full marginal cost for provision. To mitigate the moral hazard problem, a coinsurance can be included in the insurance...
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