Service (NHS). To identify the effects of robotic surgery on patient outcomes, I exploit quasi-random variation in the … patients' length of stay in hospital and decrease the incidence of adverse events from surgery, but their effects significantly …

This paper develops a simple model that analyses the relationship between a country's oil endowment and the duration of … coup d'état and establish a new dictator. The relationship between oil endowment and the duration of the dictatorial regime … is modulated by the price of oil. Applying an empirical survival model on data for the duration of 106 dictatorships …

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of trade duration across regions and to identify its determinants … variables on the duration of trade relationships from 96 countries from 1995 to 2004. Our results suggest first that the … duration of trade relationships increases with the region level of development: trade relationships from richer economies face …

end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on …

, we evaluate the effect of the 1992 student aid reform that was intended to shorten the duration of university studies. We …

We analyse how alternative reforms of the student financial aid would influence average study duration, government … increase the average study duration. The size of this effect depends on how willing the students are to take student loans. …

This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in … 1980s and 1990s. The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 was driven by financial liberalization and a hard …