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27: Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences, Attitude and Personality Traits

Maria Zumbuehl, Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann

26: Higher Order Risk Preferences: New Experimental Measures, Determinants and Field Behavior

Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

25: Labour Supply during Lockdown and a “New Normal”: The Case of the Netherlands Abstract: We document the evolution of hours of work using monthly data from February to June 2020. During this period, the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, enacted a lockdown for a period of six weeks and gradually opened thereafter. We show that during lock-down, substitutability between work from home and at the workplace or essential worker status are key to maintain a large fraction of pre-crisis hours of work. These pandemic-specific mechanisms become much less important as social distancing restrictions are eased in May and June. Labor supply recovers quickly in sectors affected heavily during lockdown, but goes down in other areas of the economy. The latter is unlikely caused by pandemic-induced supply changes; diminished demand is a more plausible explanation. Analyzing take-up of economic support programs, we find suggestive evidence that wage subsidies and other programs helped limit the early-stage impact of the crisis along the extensive margin

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Bettina Sifinger and Christian Zimpelmann

24: Psychological pressure and the right to determine the moves in dynamic tournaments – Evidence from a natural field experiment

Mark Kassis, Sascha Schmidt, Dominik Schreyer and Matthias Sutter

23: Deviant or Wrong? The Effects of Norm Information on the Efficacy of Punishment

Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant and Erte Xiao

21: Do Non-Compete Clauses Undermine Minimum Wages?

Thomas Kohler and Fabian Schmitz

20: Pollsand Elections: Strategic Respondents and Turnout Implications

Christina Luxen

19: Financial literacy, risk and time preferences – Results from a randomized educational intervention

Matthias Sutter, Michael Weyland, Anna Untertrifaller and Manuel Froitzheim

18: (Why) do central banks care about their profits?

Igor Goncharov, Vasso Ioannidou and Martin C. Schmalz

17: Bank capital and the European recovery from the COVID-19 crisis

Moritz Schularick, Sascha Steffen and Tobias Tröger

16: The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences

Amelie Schiprowski

15: The Distribution of Household Debt in the United States, 1950-2019

Alina K. Bartscher, Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick and Ulrike I. Steins

14: Are Economists’ Preferences Psychologists’ Personality Traits? A Structural Approach

Tomáš Jagelka

13: Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014

Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks

12: Unequal andunstable: income inequality and bank risk

Yuliyan Mitkov and Ulrich Schüwer

11: Monetary Policy, Financial Constraints, and Redistribution

Christian Loenser and Andreas Schabert

10: The Political Economy of a Diverse Monetary Union

Enrico Perotti and Oscar Soons

9: Observability, Social Proximity, and the Erosion of Norm Compliance

Cristina Bicchieri, Eugen Dimant, Simon Gächter and Daniele Nosenzo

8: Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse and Pia Pinger

7: Social capital and the spread of Covid-19: Insights from European countries

Alina Kristin Bartscher, Sebastian Seitz, Sebastian Siegloch, Michaela Slotwinski and Nils Wehrhöfer

6: Secular Trends and Technological Progress

Robin Döttling and Enrico Perotti

5: A General Framework for Studying Contests

Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler

4: Reveal it or conceal it: On the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market

Parampreet Christopher Bindra, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Daniel Neururer and Matthias Sutter

3: Discrimination, narratives and family history: An experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider and Matthias Sutter

2: The Short-Run Macro Implications of School and Child-Care Closures

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Moritz Kuhn and Michele Tertilt

1: Pareto-improving tax reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit

Felix Bierbrauer, Pierre Boyer and Emanuel Hansen