Ruhr Economic Papers

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392: Beyond the Average Elasticity – Applying Quantile Panel Regression to German Household Mobility Data

Nolan Ritter

391: The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market

Ingo Isphording and Mathias Sinning

390: How to Use the EU-SILC Panel to Analyse Monthly and Hourly Wages

Melissa Engel and Sandra Schaffner

389: Is the Burden Too Small? – Effective Tax Rates in Ghana

David Nguyen-Thanh and Christoph Strupat

388: Job Characteristics and Subjective Well-Being in Australia – A Capability Approach Perspective

Nicolai Suppa

387: The More You Know? – Consumption Behavior and the Communication of Economic Information

Jeannette Brosig-Koch and Klemens Keldenich

386: Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Europe

Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara (née David) and Sandra Schaffner

385: Do Fewer People Mean Fewer Cars? – Population Decline and Car Ownership in Germany

Nolan Ritter and Colin Vance

384: Urban Economic Growth in Europe Between 2001 and 2008 – Gravitation or Dispersion?

Uwe Neumann, Rüdiger Budde and Christoph Ehlert

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