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November 27, 2019

How earthquakes affect social preferences

When people are exposed to a disaster, their demand for redistribution increases

  • inequality
  • Italy
  • natural experiment
  • redistribution
  • Fabio Sabatini
  • Giovanni Gualtieri
  • Marcella Nicolini
OpinionResearch

October 11, 2018

Challenging the use of the twin instrument in the social sciences

Twins are more often born to healthier women

  • fertilty
  • maternal health
  • natural experiment
  • randomness
  • social sciences
  • twin instrument
  • twins
  • validity
  • Damian Clarke
  • Sonia R. Bhalotra
Research

August 1, 2014

Hiring credits stimulated employment during recession in France

In response to soaring unemployment during the Great Recession, the French government introduced a hiring credit in December 2008. The […]

  • employment
  • France
  • hiring
  • labor market policy
  • minimum wage
  • natural experiment
  • recession
  • Pierre Cahuc
  • Stéphane Carcillo
  • Thomas Le Barbanchon
Research

June 23, 2014

Encouraging single mothers to work – evidence from the Netherlands

Welfare benefits are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the poor need them to survive, on the other hand […]

  • benefit
  • child
  • labor market entry
  • labor market policy
  • mother
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • welfare
  • Jan C. van Ours
  • Marike Knoef
Research

September 11, 2013

High testosterone, high wages?

Does the level of testosterone, which is associated with more aggressive and competitive behavior, explain why men earn more than […]

  • earnings
  • gender
  • gender wage gap
  • inequality
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • twins
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Caitlin Knowles Myers
  • Jessica Holmes

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