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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Unmet aspirations as an explanation for the age U-shape in wellbeing
An emerging economic literature has found evidence that wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. This paper is the first to analyze age patterns in unmet expectations. Using the German Socio-Economic…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Körpergrösse, Body-Mass-Index und Geburtsgewichte: Lebensstandard und Anthropometrie in Zürich und Basel 1904-1951
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/2016
Cognitive biases associated with medical decisions : a systematic review
Background Cognitive biases and personality traits (aversion to risk or ambiguity) may lead to diagnostic inaccuracies and medical errors resulting in mismanagement or inadequate utilization of resources. We conducted a systematic review with four objectives: 1) to identify the most common cognitive biases, 2) to evaluate the influence of cognitive biases on diagnostic accuracy or…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
What’s more important for life satisfaction? Market goods or social goods?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
The 9/11 dust cloud and pregnancy outcomes: a reconsideration
The events of 9/11 released a million tons of toxic dust into lower Manhattan, an unparalleled environmental disaster. It is puzzling, then, that the literature has shown little effect of fetal exposure to the dust. However, inference is complicated by preexisting differences between the affected mothers and other NYC mothers as well as heterogeneity in effects on boys and girls.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Combining multiple hypothesis testing with machine learning increases the statistical power of genome-wide association studies
The standard approach to the analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is based on testing each position in the genome individually for statistical significance of its association with the phenotype under investigation. To improve the analysis of GWAS, we propose a combination of machine learning and statistical testing that takes correlation structures within the set of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Media persuasion, ethnic hatred, and mass violence : a brief overview of recent rfesearch advances
This chapter outlines the fundamental empirical challenges when studying media effects on conflict and discusses some recent methodological advances designed to overcome them. The evidence in this emerging literature indicates that mass media can be an effective tool for political elites to orchestrate mass violence. Both direct and indirect persuasion matter. The emerging evidence…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Do casinos pay their customers to become risk-averse? Revising the house money effect in a natural experiment
In order to promote risky behavior, it is a common practice that casinos incentivize their customers through the provision of free financial means, i.e., free play. Thereby, casino operators try to exploit what is known as the house money effect. However, evidence from the field is scarce and prior research provides explanations that predict different behavioral outcomes. This…
Institution partenaire
English / 07/12/2015
Comparing several methods to compute joint prediction regions for path forecasts generated by vector autoregressions
Path forecasts, defined as sequences of individual forecasts, generated by vector autoregressions are widely used in applied work. It has been recognized that a profound econometric analysis often requires, besides the path forecast, a joint prediction region that contains the whole future path with a prespecified coverage probability. The forecasting literature offers several…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
Designing Innovation Contests for Diversity
This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research approach of the supplier, but the best approach is unknown. Diversity of approaches is desirable because it generates an option value. In our main model with two suppliers, the buyer optimally uses a bonus tournament, where suppliers can choose between a low bid and a high…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
Pledges of commitment and cooperation in partnerships
We use experimental methods to investigate whether pledges of commitment can improve cooperation in endogenously formed partnerships facing a social dilemma. Treatments vary in terms of the individual’s (a) opportunity to commit to their partner, (b) the cost of dissolving committed partnerships, and (c) the distribution of these dissolution costs between partners. Our findings show…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
The Rise of the Machines: how computers have changed work
The so-called "Rise of the Machines" has fundamentally transformed the organization of work during the last four decades. While enthusiasts are captivated by the new technologies, many worry that these machines will eventually lead to mass unemployment, as robots and computers substitute for human labor. Are computers just about to take over from humans? You will receive…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
Predicting US bank failures with internet search volume data
This study investigates how well weekly Google search volumes track and predict bank failures in the United States between 2007 and 2012, contributing to the expanding literature that exploits internet data for the prediction of events. Different duration models with time-varying covariates are estimated. Higher Google search volumes go hand in hand with higher failure rates, and the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
The effect of all-day primary school programs on maternal labor supply
This study analyzes the effect of all-day (AD) primary school programs on maternal labor supply. To account for AD school selectivity and selection into AD primary school programs I estimate bivariate probit models. To identify these models I exploit variation in the allocation of investments to AD primary schools across time and counties. This variation results from the public…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
Income and population growth
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this study we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960–2007, we interact changes in international oil prices with countries’ average net-export shares of oil in GDP.…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2015
Does competition justify inequality?
Are competitive mechanisms perceived as just sources of economic inequality? Perceptions of fairness violations can have severe economic consequences, as they may cause counterproductive behavior such as rulebook slowdowns or quality shading. To analyze fairness perceptions associated with competitive mechanisms, we run laboratory experiments where a single powerful buyer can trade…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2015
On the equivalence of Bayesian and dominant strategy implementation: the case of non-linear utilities
We extend the equivalence between Bayesian and dominant strategy implementation established by Gershkov et al. (Econometrica, 2013) to environments with non-linear utilities satisfying the average single-crossing property and the convex-valued assumption. The new equivalence result produces novel implications to the literature on the principal-agent problem with allocative…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2015
Pensionsreform ungelöst
Die Rendite der AHV sollte sich dem veränderten Produktionswachstum und der demografischen Entwicklung anpassen, die zweite Säule sollte sich strikt nach den Marktzinsen richten, schreibt Fabrizio Zilibotti.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2015
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