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Click'n'roll : no evidence of illusion of control

Filippin, Antonio; Crosetto, Paolo - 2015

Evidence of Illusion of Control - the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events - is a recurrent … dissonant result across disciplines is due to the fact that economists have implemented only one form of illusory control. We … identify and separately tests in an incentive-compatible design two types of control: a) over the resolution of uncertainty, as …

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Targeting disability insurance applications with screening

Godard, Mathilde; Koning, Pierre; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2019

We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using exogenous variation in screening induced by a policy reform. The reform raised DI application costs and revealed more information about the true disability status of applicants...

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Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers : theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - 2001

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...

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Punishing free-riders : how group size affects mutual monitoring and the provision of public goods

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...

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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure … and control expenditure ; transition economy ; Multilevel Regression Model (MRM) …

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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Electoral impacts of uncovering public school quality : evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Pieri, Renan; Souza, André Portela - 2012

School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...

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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2013

We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...

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Screening disability insurance applications

Jong, Philip R. de (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The...

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