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Case and Deaton, 2015 document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women continued to decrease in several other high-income ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
14 (2019), 100182, 9 S.
| Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder
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Many informal caregivers are of working age, facing the double burden of providing care and working. Negative labor supply effects can severely reduce the comparative cost advantage of informal over formal care arrangements. When designing long‐term care (LTC) policies, it is crucial to understand the effects not only on health outcomes but also on labor supply behavior of informal caregivers. We evaluate ...
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Health Economics
27 (2018), 9, S. 1328-1339
| Johannes Geyer, Thorben Korfhage
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Since the millennium, the labour market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labour market behaviour of fathers, as well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased burden with respect to gainful employment and ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
28 (2018), 5, S. 471-486
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
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In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the effects of these threshold‐based policies on political and economic outcomes. Using evidence ...
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American Journal of Political Science
62 (2018), 1, S. 210-229
| Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini
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We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before ...
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Public Choice
177 82018), 1-2, S. 1-27
| Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger, Mustafa Yeter
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We analyze the implication of time-inconsistent preferences in educational decision making and corresponding policies using a structural dynamic choice model. We make two important research contributions. First, we estimate our model using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (soep) and provide quantitative evidence for time-inconsistent behavior in educational decision making. Second, we evaluate ...
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Economics of Education Review
67 (2018), S. 25-39
| Daniel Kemptner, Songül Tolan
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Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...
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Labour Economics
53 (2018), S. 146-161
| Stefan Etgeton
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Subsidies for renewable energy sources are increasing around the globe and amounted to more than 100 billion euro in 2013. This study aims to answer whether the subsidies only ensure that green electricity plants are profitable or whether other market participant – as, for example, landowners – benefit from the subsidy in the form of windfall gains as well. To identify the causal effect of the subsidies, ...
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Journal of Public Economics
159 (2018), S. 16-32
| Peter Haan, Martin Simmler
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Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that social image concerns causally reduce the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design manipulates the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on ability or luck, and how the transfer is financed. We find that subjects avoid the inference both of being low-skilled (ability stigma) ...
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Journal of Public Economics
168 (2018), S. 174-192
| Jana Friedrichsen, Tobias König, Renke Schmacker
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Related to the increased encouragement of public transport (PT) by policy-makers, over-crowding in PT has become a major issue worldwide. Whilst the impact of in-vehicle crowding on individuals' travel costs has been considered, we focus on aggregate welfare losses. We apply a Pigouvian framework to the case of subways and compute the economic cost of congestion (ECC). We combine data of the 14 metro ...
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Economics of Transportation
14 (2018), S. 1-8
| Luke Haywood, Martin Koning, Remy Prud'homme