Ruhr Economic Papers

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383: Heterogeneous Causal Effects of Financial Incentives on Weight Loss – Results of a Large Prospective Randomized Trial

Monika Reuss-Borst, Alfredo Paloyo, Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann

382: Using Internet Data to Account for Special Events in Economic Forecasting

Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen

381: Obesity, Weight Loss, and Employment Prospects – Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Arndt Reichert

380: Job Security Perceptions and the Saving Behavior of German Households

Marcus Klemm

379: Job Security and Fertility: Evidence from German Reunification

Marcus Klemm

378: Mental Health and Labour Supply – Evidence from Mexico's Ongoing Violent Conflicts

Maren Michaelsen

377: Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Jan Kleibrink and Maren Michaelsen

376: Children at Risk: The Effect of Crop Loss on Child Health in Rural Mexico

Maren Michaelsen and Songuel Tolan

375: Sons' Unexpected Long Term Scarring due to Fathers' Unemployment

Michael Kind and John P. Haisken-DeNew

374: Parameters of Regional Cooperative Behavior in the German Biotech Industry – A Quantitative Social Network Analysis

Timo Mitze and Falk Strotebeck

373: The Effect of a Bonus Program for Preventive Health Behavior on Health Expenditures

Boris Augurzky, Arndt Reichert and Christoph Schmidt

372: When Outcome Heterogeneously Matters for Selection – A Generalized Selection Correction Estimator

Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann

371: Assessing Inequalities in Preventive Care Use in Europe

Vincenzo Carrieri and Ansgar Wübker

370: Explaining Variations in Breast Cancer Screening Across European Countries

Ansgar Wübker

369: Fear of the Dark? – How Access to Electric Lighting Affects Security Attitudes and Nighttime Activities in Rural Senegal

Gunther Bensch, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

368: Does Money Burn Fat? – Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Boris Augurzky, Thomas Bauer, Arndt Reichert, Christoph Schmidt and Harald Tauchmann

367: Quasi-experimental Methods in Empirical Regional Science and Policy Analysis – Is there a Scope for Application?

Timo Mitze, Alfredo Paloyo and Björn Alecke

366: Multigenerational Living Arrangements among Migrants

Regina Flake

365: Television and Contraceptive Use – Panel Evidence from Rural Indonesia

Jörg Peters, Christoph Strupat and Colin Vance

364: Incentives that Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance Associations in Germany, 1884–1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

363: Fixed Amount Saving and the Permanent Income Hypothesis

Simeon Vosen

362: Gold as an Infl ation Hedge in a Time-Varying Coefficient Framework

Joscha Beckmann and Robert Czudaj

361: In Search for a Credit Crunch in Germany

Torsten Schmidt and Lina Zwick

360: Exploring the Capability to Backward Induct – An Experimental Study with Children and Young Adults

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Timo Heinrich and Christoph Helbach

359: Does Capability Deprivation Hurt? – Evidence from German Panel Data

Nicolai Suppa

358: Lost in Transition? – Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Ronald Bachmann, Marion König and Sandra Schaffner

357: Long-run Trends or Short-run Fluctuations – What Establishes the Correlation between Oil and Food Prices?The Interplay of Standardized Tests and Incentives – An Econometric Analysis with Data from PISA 2000 and PISA 2009

Karoline Krätschell and Torsten Schmidt

356: The Interplay of Standardized Tests and Incentives – An Econometric Analysis with Data from PISA 2000 and PISA 2009

Christoph Helbach

355: The Credibility of Monetary Policy Announcements – Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries since the 1960s

Ansgar Belke, Andreas Freytag, Jonas Keil and Friedrich Schneider

354: Generating Random Optimising Choices

Jan Heufer

353: Germany's Solar Cell Promotion: An Unfolding Disaster

Manuel Frondel, Christoph Schmidt and Colin Vance

352: Gender Segregation and Gender Wage Differences during the Early Labour Market Career

Peggy Bechara (née David)

351: Business Taxation and Wages – Evidence from Individual Panel Data

Thomas Bauer, Tanja Kasten and Lars-Hinrich Siemers

350: Interest Rate Pass-Through in the EMU – New Evidence from Nonlinear Cointegration Techniques for Fully Harmonized Data

Ansgar Belke, Joscha Beckmann and Florian Verheyen

349: Time vs. Money – The Supply of Voluntary Labor and Charitable Donations across Europe

Thomas Bauer, Julia Bredtmann and Christoph Schmidt

348: The Employment Effect of Industry-Specific, Collectively-Bargained Minimum Wages

Hanna Frings

347: Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms – A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Ansgar Belke and Lukas Vogel

346: The Dynamics of Assortative Mating in Germany

Barbara Grave and Christoph Schmidt

345: Immigration and Structural Change – Evidence from Post-war Germany

Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka

344: Time is Money – The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages

Michael Kind and Jan Kleibrink

343: Modifying Taylor Reaction Functions in Presence of the Zero-Lower-Bound – Evidence for the ECB and the Fed

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

342: A Theory of Child Adoption

Dirk Bethmann and Michael Kvasnicka

341: The Relationship between Quality and Hospital Case Volume – An Empirical Examination with German Data

Corinna Hentschker and Roman Mennicken

340: Oil Price Effects on Land Use Competition – An Empirical Analysis

Matthias Diermeier and Torsten Schmidt

339: Do Coalitions Really Cause Larger Government Expenditures? – Mixed Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Sebastian Garmann

338: Do Wealthier Households Save More? – The Impact of the Demographic Factor

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Richard Ochmann

337: The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics

Ingo Isphording and Sebastian Otten

336: A Political Winner's Curse: Why Preventive Policies Pass Parliament so Narrowly

Philipp an de Meulen and Christian Bredemeier

335: Heterogeneity in the Effect of Home Energy Audits – Theory and Evidence

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

334: Empirical Evidence on the Generalized Taylor Principle

Mario Jovanovic