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A gift is not always a gift: Gift exchange in a voucher experiment

Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of participants in the Swiss Labor Force Survey was sent vouchers to be used in adult training courses. Importantly for our purposes, actual voucher redemption can be traced. This gives the...

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Testing dependence among serially correlated multi-category variables

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Timmermann, Allan - 2006

The contingency table literature on tests for dependence among discrete multi-category variables is extensive. Existing tests assume, however, that draws are independent, and there are no tests that account for serial dependencies?a problem that is particularly important in economics and...

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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy: The Role of Expectations and Duration

Briscese, Guglielmo; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; … - 2020

We study how intentions to comply with the self-isolation restrictions introduced in Italy to mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic respond to the length of their possible extension. Based on a survey of a representative sample of Italian residents (N=894), we find that respondents who are positively...

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Nonparametric regression and the detection of turning points in the Ifo business climate

Abberger, Klaus - 2004

Business climate indicators are used to receive early signals for turning points in the general business cycle. Therefore methods for the detection of turning points in time series are required. Estimations of slopes of a smooth component in the data can be calculated with local polynomial...

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Meta-analysis of the business cycle correlation between the Euro Area and the CEECs

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2006

We review the literature on business cycle correlation between the euro area and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), a topic that has gained attention as the newest EU members approach monetary union. Our meta-analysis of 35 identified publications suggests some CEECs already...

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Compliance with COVID-19 Social-Distancing Measures in Italy : The Role of Expectations and Duration

Briscese, Guglielmo - 2020

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School Tracking and Mental Health

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher; … - 2019

We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use...

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Dark Passage: Mental Health Consequences of Parental Death

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021

hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … hospitalization following the death of a parent of a different gender, but there are significant effects for boys losing their fathers … and girls losing their mothers. Depression is the most common cause of hospitalization in the first three years following …

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Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration

Beine, Michel; Jeusette, Lionel - 2018

Recent surveys of the literature on climate change and migration emphasize the important diversity of outcomes and approaches of the empirical studies. In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis in order to investigate the role of the methodological choices of these empirical studies in finding...

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