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The Development of Development Economics
(2016-04)
This paper discusses the historical roots of development economics and how it has changed over the last half century. We first identify the most important changes in orientation within development economics and discuss ...
Migration as an Adaptation Strategy to Weather Variability: An Instrumental Variables Probit Analysis
(2016-06)
There is solid scientific evidence predicting that a large part of the developing world will suffer a greater incidence of extreme weather events, which may increase the incidence of displacement migration. We draw on the ...
Because of you I did not give up - How peers affect perseverance
(2016-06)
Various empirical papers have shown that peers affect productivity and behavior in the workplace. However, the mechanisms through which peers influence each other are still largely
unknown. In this laboratory experiment ...
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 ...
The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
(2016-01)
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change
have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a ...
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 ...
Mind, Behaviour and Health - a Randomised Experiment
(2016-06)
Behavioural attitudes toward risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be important drivers of unhealthy lifestyle choices. This paper makes the first attempt to explore the possibility ...
On-the-job search and city structure
(2016-06)
This paper investigates an equilibrium search model in which search frictions are increasing with the distance to a city’s central business district, allowing for on-the-job search and
endogenous wage formation and land ...
Difference in Preferences or in Preference Orderings? Comparing Choices of Environmental Bureaucrats, Recreational Anglers, and the Public
(2016-08)
Do Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats represent the general public or are they more in line with an interest group? We study preferences for environmental policy using a choice experiment (CE) on three ...
Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
(2016-03)
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment ...