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Sick of your colleagues' absence?
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...
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Monitoring and norms in sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a natural experiment
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Vikström, Johan - 2008
We test if social work norms are important for work absence due to self-perceived sick-ness. To this end, we use a randomized social experiment designed to estimate the effect of monitoring on work absence. The treated were exposed to less monitoring of their eligibility to use sickness...
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Income taxation and labour response: Empirical evidence from a DID analysis of an income tax treatment in Italy
Bosco, Bruno; Bosco, Carlo Federico; Maranzano, Paolo - 2024
also find that that treated families reduce in a similar manner their consumption with respect to families in the control …
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Demand effects of consumers' stated and revealed preferences
Engström, Per; Forsell, Eskil - 2013
Knowledge of how consumers react to different quality signals is fundamental for understanding how markets work. We study the online market- place for Android apps where we compare the causal effects on demand from two quality related signals; other consumers' stated and revealed preferences...
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A review of macroeconomic models for the WEFE nexus assessment
Castelli, Chiara; Castellini, Marta; Ciola, Emanuele; … - 2022
The Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus refers to the system of complex and highly non-linear interconnections between these four elements. It now represents the basic framework to assess and design policies characterized by an holistic environmental end economical perspective. In...
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El Niño and Indian droughts: A scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to … the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in El Niño years but not all El Niño years led to drought situations … timing of El Niño developments in a year and its relation with monsoon rains. We construct an India specific El Niño (ISEL …
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The Importance of Taste for Food Demand and the Experienced Taste Effect of Healthy Labels – An Experiment on Potato Chips and Bread
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - 2014
This paper quantitatively analyzes the importance of taste versus health in food demand, as well as the effect on consumers' experienced taste of the non-intrinsic value of healthy labels. Our analysis is based on taste experiments and Vickrey second price auctions on potato chips and bread. Our...
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Burden of Climate Change on Malaria Mortality
Dasgupta, Shouro - 2017
In 2015, an estimated 429,000 deaths and 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, while 70% of the deaths occurred in children under five years old. Changes in climatic exposure such as temperature and precipitation makes malaria one of the most climate sensitive outcomes. Using a global...
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Demand-Supply Trends and Projections of Food in India
Mittal, Surabhi - 2008
growth in population and per capita income. A diversification in consumption basket significantly away from cereals has been …
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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef - 2008
provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure … public policy. Complementing economic integration with political integration can increase the gains from globalisation …
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