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Title:Essays on macroeconomics and development Author(s):MANALIS, Georgios
Date:2021Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2021
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:Land Rights and risk sharing in rural West Africa: Despite arduous efforts of advancing land rights in Africa, most of the continent experiences low levels of formally recognized property. I propose a novel contextualisation ...
Date:2021Citation:
Title:Examining income expectations in the college and early post-college periods : new distributional tests of rational expectations Author(s):CROSSLEY, Thomas F. ; GONG, Yifan; STINEBRICKNER, Todd; STINEBRICKNER, RalphDate:2021Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:NBER Working Paper; 2021/28353Abstract:Unique longitudinal probabilistic expectations data from the Berea Panel Study, which cover both the college and early post-college periods, are used to examine young adults’ beliefs about their future incomes. We introduce ...
; GONG, Yifan; STINEBRICKNER, Todd; STINEBRICKNER, RalphDate:2021Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:NBER Working Paper; 2021/28353Abstract:Unique longitudinal probabilistic expectations data from the Berea Panel Study, which cover both the college and early post-college periods, are used to examine young adults’ beliefs about their future incomes. We introduce ...
Title:Health outcomes, personality traits and eating disorders Author(s):HAM, John C.; IORIO, Daniela; SOVINSKY, MichelleDate:2021Citation:
- Economic policy, Vol. 36, No. 105, pp. 51-76
Type:ArticleAbstract:Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a detrimental persistent eating disorder that impacts millions of women, and imposes serious costs on the economy in terms of physical health, treatment costs, absence from work and reduced human ...
; SOVINSKY, MichelleDate:2021Citation:
Title:Success in contests Author(s):LEVINE, David K.; MATTOZZI, AndreaDate:2021Citation:
- Economic theory, 2021, OnlineFirst
Type:ArticleAbstract:Models of two contestants exerting effort to win a prize are very common and widely used in political economy. The contest success function plays as fundamental a role in the theory of contests as does the production ...
; MATTOZZI, AndreaDate:2021Citation:
Title:Cognitive and noncognitive costs of day care at age 0–2 for children in advantaged families Author(s):FORT, Margherita; ICHINO, Andrea ; ZANELLA, GiulioDate:2020Citation:
- Journal of political economy, 2020, Vol. 128, No. 1, pp. 158-205
Type:ArticleAbstract:Exploiting admission thresholds to the Bologna day care system, we show using a regression discontinuity (RD) design that one additional day care month at age 0–2 reduces intelligence quotient by 0.5% (4.7% of a standard ...
; ZANELLA, GiulioDate:2020Citation:
Title:Inequality of opportunity, inequality of effort, and innovation Author(s):SPIGANTI, Alessandro Date:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2020/02Abstract:Is inequality good or bad for innovation? I study an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents; due to credit frictions, inequalities in wealth lead to misallocation of talent. A more unequal reward scheme incentivises ...
Date:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2020/02Abstract:Is inequality good or bad for innovation? I study an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents; due to credit frictions, inequalities in wealth lead to misallocation of talent. A more unequal reward scheme incentivises ...
Title:Voter turnout with peer punishment Author(s):LEVINE, David K.; MATTOZZI, AndreaDate:2020Citation:
- American economic review, 2020, Vol. 110, No. 10, pp. 3298-3314
Type:ArticleAbstract:We introduce a model where social norms of voting participation are strategically chosen by competing political parties and determine voters' turnout. Social norms must be enforced through costly peer monitoring and ...
; MATTOZZI, AndreaDate:2020Citation:
Title:Essays on social insurance and allocation of resources Author(s):MAZUR, KarolDate:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:The thesis is composed of four stand-alone essays analyzing economic problems pertinent to social insurance and allocation of resources in three applications to development, education and labor. The first essay investigates ...
Date:2019Citation:
Title:Essays in public finance Author(s):SKIPKA, SimonDate:2019Citation:
- Florence : European University Institute, 2019
Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of EconomicsAbstract:This thesis consists of three independent essays in public finance. While differing in methodology and scope, the essays are unified by their topicality in the policy discussion The first chapter discusses the interaction ...
Date:2019Citation: