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European countries (using EU-SILC data) and the US (using CPS data). We find a robust tendency in all countries to compensate …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
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We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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politically driven economic benefits from EU membership: if Norway had joined the EU in 1995, productivity levels between 1995 and … economic integration. The identification strategy rests on the fact that Norway, at the time of the 1995 Enlargement of the … European Union (EU), had successfully completed negotiations and fulfilled all accession requirements, taken membership in the …
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