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Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance
(2017-02)We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp ... -
Nudging à la carte – A field experiment on food choice
(2017-02)We test the effect of framing of a menu on the choice of ordering climate friendly dishes in a randomized controlled experiment. Rearranging the menu in favor of vegetarian food has a large and significant effect on the ... -
Would I lie to you? Strategic deception in the face of uncertain penalties
(2017-01)Using an experiment we investigate the effect of different centralised punishment mechanisms on deception and beliefs about deception in a principal-agent interaction that resembles many everyday expert advisor - client ... -
A Spatial Analysis of Foreign Aid and Civil Society
(2017-01)We use a Spatial Durbin Model to examine the relationship between civil society aid projects and measures of civil society including membership and participation in community groups and satisfaction with democracy in Nigeria ... -
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
(2017-01)We conduct an artefactual field experiment in which 164 managers and senior advisors recruited from Swedish industry were presented with a task of maximizing net revenue from abatement investments under three different ... -
The effect of land lease on house prices
(2017-01)In Amsterdam, houses located on private land and houses with various land-lease contracts coexist. In this paper, we investigate the impact of future land-lease payments on the house price. We look at the impact on house ... -
CDS INDEX OPTIONS UNDER INCOMPLETE INFORMATION
(2016-12)We derive practical formulas for CDS index spreads in a credit risk model under incomplete information. The factor process driving the default intensities is not directly observable, and the filtering model of Frey & Schmidt ... -
Optimal Environmental Road Pricing and Integrated Daily Commuting Patterns
(2016-12)Road pricing can improve air quality by reducing and spreading traffic flows. Nevertheless, air quality does not depend only on traffic flows, but also on pollution dispersion. In this paper we investigate the effects of ... -
Corrupt Bureaucrats: The Response of Non-Elected Officials to Electoral Accountability
(2016-12)Modern state bureaucracies are designed to be insulated from political interference. Successful insulation implies that politicians' electoral incentives do not affect bureaucrats' corruption. I test this prediction by ... -
Cooperation under risk and ambiguity
(2016-12)The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural uncertainty on cooperation in a social dilemma ... -
How Policy Legitimacy Affects Policy Support Throughout the Policy Cycle
(2016-12)We analyze the importance of legitimacy and compare how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (i.e. the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures ... -
Interactions among High-Frequency Traders
(2016-12)Using unique transactions data for individual high-frequency trading (HFT) firms in the U.K. equity market, we examine the extent to which the trading activity of individual HFT firms is correlated with each other and the ... -
Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo
(2016-11)It is by now generally agreed that government corruption is a serious impediment to economic growth. An intensive use of informal tolls and bribes on roads and waterways still prevail in several developing countries, ... -
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(2016-11)Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ... -
Does increasing compulsory education decrease or displace adolescent crime? New evidence from administrative and victimization data
(2016-10)This paper estimates the contemporaneous effect of education on adolescent crime by exploiting the implementation a reform that increases the school leaving age in Italy by one year. We find that the Reform increases the ... -
Do you trust me? – Go Fish! A Study on Trust and Fisheries Management
(2016-10)This paper investigates trust among stakeholders in fisheries management. We asked the general public, environmental bureaucrats, and recreational and commercial fishers whether they believed various stakeholders have ... -
The Fall of Capital Punishment and the Rise of Prisons: How Punishment Severity Affects Jury Verdicts
(2016-10)This paper studies the effect of punishment severity on jury decision-making using a large archival data set from the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1715 to 1900. We take advantage of three natural experiments ... -
Inequality Aversion and Marginal Income Taxation
(2016-10)This paper deals with tax policy responses to inequality aversion by examining the first-best Pareto-efficient marginal tax structure when people are inequality averse. In doing so, we distinguish between four different ... -
Social Identity and Role Models
(2016-09)We present a lab-in-the-field experiment and surveys of marginalised Roma children in Slovakia to examine whether reminding Roma of their ethnicity reduces their performance in a cognitive task. Research on social identity ...