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Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek - 2009

We propose an incentive pay scheme for educators that links educator compensation to the ranks of their students within appropriately defined comparison sets, and we show that under certain conditions our scheme induces teachers to allocate socially optimal levels of effort to all students....

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How much can we trust causal interpretations of fixed-effects estimators in the context of criminality?

Bjerk, David - 2009

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...

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Choices which change life satisfaction: Revising SWB theory to account for change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

on life satisfaction. The results have negative implications for the still dominant theory of SWB, set-point theory. This … theory holds that adult SWB does not change in the medium or long term, although temporary fluctuations occur due to specific … life events. Set-point theory has come under increasing criticism in recent years, primarily due to unmistakable evidence …

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Estimating persistence in the volatility of asset returns with signal plus noise models

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2010

This paper examines the degree of persistence in the volatility of financial time series using a Long Memory Stochastic Volatility (LMSV) model. Specifically, it employs a Gaussian semiparametric (or local Whittle) estimator of the memory parameter, based on the frequency domain, proposed by...

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Social relationships and trust

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2010

While social relationships play an important role for individuals to cope with missing market institutions, they also limit individuals' range of trading partners. This paper aims at understanding the determinants of trust at various social distances when information asymmetries are present....

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The design of unemployment transfers: Evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2010

In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an...

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Does international outsourcing really lower workers' income?

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - 2010

We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only and where they negotiate over both wage and profit share. We find that in the first case...

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Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? A theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany

Neubäumer, Renate - 2010

Our paper investigates the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on the subsequent employment prospects of previously unemployed program participants. First, we outline a theoretical approach based on a firm's hiring decision. For the relative effectiveness of both...

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Quasiconcave Preferences and Choices on a Probability Simplex – A Nonparametric Analysis

Heufer, Jan - 2010

A nonparametric approach is presented to test whether decisions on a probability simplex could be induced by quasiconcave preferences. Necessary and sufficient conditions are presented. If the answer is affirmative, the methods developed here allow to reconstruct bounds on indifference curves....

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In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking

Heufer, Jan - 2009

It is argued that drug consumption, most commonly alcohol drinking, can be a technology to give up some control over one's actions and words. It can be employed by trustworthy players to reveal their type. Similarly alcohol can function as a social lubricant and faciliate type revelation in...

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