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Open AccessLong-term returns to local health-care spending
This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of patients who experienced a heart attack. We relate in-hospital deaths to in-hospital spending and post-discharge deaths to post...
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Open AccessHow Retirement Affects Mental Health, Cognitive Skills and Mortality; An Overview of Recent Empirical Evidence
Retiring is an individual labor market transition that affects the personal life of the workers involved and sometimes the life of their partners. This paper presents an overview of recent studies on the effec...
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Equilibrium Unemployment and the Duration of Unemployment Benefits
This chapter uses microdata to evaluate the impact on the steady-state unemployment rate of an increase in maximum benefit duration. We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration fro...
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Beyond Okun’s law: output growth and labor market flows
This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach based on labor market flows. The framework shows why the Okun coefficient may be constant/tim...
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Editorial Introduction—How Sports Can Help Economics
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Open AccessSeasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1974–2018
We study seasonal home advantage in English professional football over the period 1974 to 2018. We distinguish between absolute home advantage, enjoyed equally by all teams in a division, and relative home adv...
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Partnered individuals are generally happier than singles. The positive association between partnership and happiness has multiple explanations. A simple comparison of singles and partnered individuals is insuf...
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Open AccessThe joy of lottery play: evidence from a field experiment
Buying lottery tickets is not a rational investment from a financial point of view. Yet, the majority of people participate at least once a year in a lottery. We conducted a field experiment to increase unders...
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Mental Health Effects of Retirement
We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heteroge...
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Open AccessThe impact of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries
We investigate the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries. Based on individual data about age of onset of smoking, we use hazard rate models to study smoking init...
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Open AccessDaily dialect-speaking and wages among native Dutch speakers
Our paper studies the effects of daily dialect-speaking on hourly wages of native Dutch workers. The unconditional difference in median hourly wage between Standard Dutch speakers and dialect speakers is about...
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Open AccessA Note on Artificial Pitches and Home Advantage in Dutch Professional Football
In professional football there is an advantage of playing at home. In the Netherlands, in the Eredivisie, the top tier of professional football the majority of teams play their home matches on natural grass but t...
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Stephen J. Nickell (1944–)
Steve Nickell is a researcher who has covered a lot of ground. At the start of his career, he worked on theoretical issues, quickly moving on to do empirical work. Nickell studied product market-related topics...
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Open AccessSubjective Well-being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?
We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether partnership has a causal effect on subjective well-being. As in previous studies, we find that, on average, being in a partnership improves well-being. Well-b...
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Open AccessEffects of a red card on goal-scoring in World Cup football matches
We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is mo...
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Open AccessCannabis use and support for cannabis legalization
We investigate the determinants of the support for cannabis legalization finding a causal effect of personal experience with cannabis use. Current and past cannabis users are more in favor of legalization. We ...
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Open AccessU.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males
The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanc...
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Open AccessHow to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job: evidence from a policy experiment
We present the results from a policy experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to enter the labor market and increase their work experience. The aim of the policy was not per se for single ...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of In-Season Manager Changes in English Premier League Football
We analyze the performance effects of in-season manager changes in English Premier League football during the seasons 2000/2001–2014/2015. We find that some managerial changes are successful, while others are ...
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Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for many years exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job after they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the ...
