In part because of high youth unemployment, students' transition from school to work is an important policy and research topic. Public programs offering summer jobs or work while in high school as measures to smooth the transition is commonplace. The immediate effect of the programs on school...

This paper estimates a structural model of private provision of public goods to provide some new empirical evidence on individuals' strategic contributing behaviors. In the model, individuals' contributing behaviors are allowed to be heterogenous and time-varying. We show that all the main...

The extensive body of survey-based research correlating between students' cheating and their academic grade point average (GPA) consistently finds a significant negative relationship between cheating and the GPA. The present paper reports the results of a two-round experiment designed to expose...

Die Insolvenzstatistik ist seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie noch stärker in den öffentlichen Fokus gerückt. Seit Mai 2020 veröffentlicht das Statistische Bundesamt einen Frühindikator, der die amtlichen Ergebnisse der Insolvenzstatistik ergänzt. Dadurch ist es möglich, Entwicklungen im...