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Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll on the choice of parents for their children to start elementary school one year earlier.

Alessandra Casarico on novel measures to reduce gender gaps in political empowerment.

Causality is of growing concern in sociological research. Advances in statistical methods (like matching, instrumental variables, difference-in-difference designs etc.) are one indicator of this development.

In this paper we use different measures of routine intensity and different datasets (EWCS, PIAAC, PDII, O*NET, plus the LFS) to provide a broad picture of routinization in the EU, also focusing on across-time changes

This paper provides evidence of forward-looking behavior in demand for prescription drugs, while relying on registry-based, individual level information about the universe of Danish prescription drug purchases from 1995-2014

We conduct "artefactual" field experiments to incorporate experimental elicitation methods for risk and time preferences within the Innovation Panel (IP) of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS)

Disease management programs (DMPs) in the general practice sector are increasingly used to improve the health of chronically ill patients and reduce hospitalizations and thereby costs

As previous research has recognized the costs and benefits associated to category spanning, it has not yet investigated the extent to which category spanning influences individuals’ legitimization in the light of an evaluating audience

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question

This study uses a spatial regression discontinuity design to identify the effects of the misalignment between social and biological time resulting from the conflict between social constructs such as time zones and work schedules and the timing of natural light, which affects our physiological processes

The need for more comprehensive and integrated data on individual well-being is widely recognised and Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi (2009) recommend to consider income, consumption and wealth and to give more prominence to their joint distribution

Around the world, there is a growing interest to provide insurance policies to low-income households but selection of high-risk individuals into the insurance pool is an often cited impediment for the sustainability of such schemes