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Missing Poor in the U.S.
Given that poor individuals face worse survival conditions than non-poor individuals, one can expect that a steeper income gradient in mortality leads, through stronger income-based selection, to a lower pover...
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Experimentation in Economics
According to some authors, experimental economics can be defined as “the use of experimentation as a method of investigation in economics.” In this chapter, after recalling some aspects of the emergence of exp...
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An Empirical Assessment of the Drivers of Formal and Informal Childcare Demand in European Countries
How does the mother’s labour supply affect the household’s demand for childcare? And thus are formal and informal childcare substitutable? In this paper, we address these two questions using micro-data for 14 ...
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Information disclosure under liability: an experiment on public bads
We experimentally investigate the impact of information disclosure on managing common harms that are caused jointly by a group of liable agents. Subjects interact in a public bad setting and must choose ex ant...
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Other-regarding preferences and giving decision in a risky environment: experimental evidence
We investigate whether and how an individual giving decision is affected in risky environments in which the recipient’s wealth is random. We demonstrate that, under risk neutrality, the donation of dictators w...
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Counting the missing poor in pre-industrial societies
Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures suffer from a selection bias: they do not count the missing poor (i.e., persons who would have been counted as poor provided they did not die prematurely...
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Fiscal decentralization and the performance of higher education institutions: the case of Europe
This paper empirically evaluates the impact of fiscal decentralization on the performance of higher education systems. To test this relationship, we build up a panel dataset composed of European countries. Cou...
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Premature mortality and poverty measurement in an OLG economy
Following Kanbur and Mukherjee (Bull Econ Res 59(4):339–359 2007), a solution to the “missing poor” problem (i.e., selection bias in poverty measures due to income-differentiated mortality) consists in computing ...
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Effects of gain-loss frames on advantageous inequality aversion
This paper studies individuals’ preference for reducing advantageous inequality in the distribution of gains and losses. Combining the inequality aversion model of Fehr and Schmidt (Q J Econ 114(3):817–868, 1999)...
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Global: What Makes a Good Higher Education Minister?
Academia is a rather awkward sector to (ad)minister. It is home to peculiarities such as academic tenure, peer-reviewed publications, and shared governance. Its higher education institutions are a key engine f...
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Tax evasion and social information: an experiment in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands
We experimentally study how receiving information about tax compliance of others affects individuals’ occupational choices and subsequent evading decisions. In one treatment individuals receive information abo...
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Reining in excessive risk-taking by executives: the effect of accountability
Performance-contingent compensation by means of stock options may induce risk-taking in agents that is excessive from the point of view of the company or the shareholders. We test whether increasing shareholde...
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Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data
The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium—for the first time using a rich survey dataset to analyze retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to esti...
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Measuring poverty without the Mortality Paradox
Under income-differentiated mortality, poverty measures reflect not only the “true” poverty, but, also, the interferences or noise caused by the survival process at work. Such interferences lead to the Mortali...
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A structural model for early exit of older men in Belgium
In this article, we propose a structural model of the retirement decision for older workers in Belgium. We model the exit paths available through the various available schemes. Our framework allows exploiting ...
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The ratio bias phenomenon: fact or artifact?
The ratio bias—according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers—has ...
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The generosity of the welfare state towards the elderly
This paper distinguishes among three types of generosity of social security systems: average generosity, generosity towards early retirement and generosity towards the poor. On the basis of theoretical predict...
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The Generosity of the Welfare State Towards the Elderly
Imagine a casual discussion involving three Eurocrats in a café on the Brussels Grand Place. They are attending a meeting on the ‘Future of Pensions in the EU’ and are talking about the generosity of pensions....
