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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions - in contrast to what is expected - increase the inflow into...

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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden

Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012

This paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for … rehabilitation. We find no differences in employment rates following rehabilitation between individuals who received rehabilitation … by private and public providers. Also the average cost of rehabilitation was essentially equal for the two types of …

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Demystifying the challenges of low-income housing delivery in urban India: The case of Delhi

Haque, Ismail; Kotal, Malay - 2022

Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...

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Do welfare programs damage interpersonal trust? Experimental evidence from representative samples for four Latin American cities

Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo; Rios, Vanessa - 2009

This paper argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and...

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Happy times: Measuring happiness using response times

Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2023

Surveys that measure subjective states like happiness or preferences often generate discrete ordinal data. Ordered …

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What do lost wallets tell us about survey measures of social capital?

Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian Lukas; … - 2020

We validate survey measures of social capital with a new data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning generalized...

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Happy times: Identification from ordered response data

Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2020

Surveys are an important tool in economics and in the social sciences more broadly. However, methods used to analyse …

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What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital?

Tannenbaum, David; Cohn, Alain; Zünd, Christian; … - 2020

We validate survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find that survey measures of social capital - especially questions concerning...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420687

Happy times: Identification from ordered response data

Liu, Shuo; Netzer, Nick - 2021

Surveys that are designed to measure subjective states (e.g., happiness) typically generate ordinal data. A fundamental …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588493

Comments on Piazzesi and Schneider's "Bond positions, expectations, and the yield curve"

Faust, Jon - 2008

This working paper comments on Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider's 'Bond Positions, Expectations, and the Yield Curve', delivered at the Fiscal Policy and Monetary/Fiscal Policy Interactions conference held at the Atlanta Fed on April 19-20, 2007.

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