Ruhr Economic Papers

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153: Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?

Annika Meng

152: Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members

Annika Meng

151: Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

150: Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany

Matthias Keese

149: Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification

Julia Bredtmann, Jochen Kluve and Sandra Schaffner

148: When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate ""Pain Threshold"" for German Exports

Ansgar Belke, Matthias Goecke and Martin Guenther

147: Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Ansgar Belke, Gunther Schnabl and Holger Zemanek

146: Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

145: Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career - Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment

Jochen Kluve and Marcus Tamm

144: The Effect of Subsidizing Continuous Training Investments - Evidence from German Establishment Data

Katja Görlitz

143: Public Policy and Success of Business Start-ups in Germany

Verena Eckl, Michael Rothgang and Friederike Welter

142: Co-pay and Feel Okay: Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform

Alfredo Paloyo

141: Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo Paloyo and Christoph Schmidt

140: Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition

Wolfram Richter

139: Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity

Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner and Christoph Schmidt

138: On Marginal and Interaction Effects: The Case of Heckit and Two-Part Models

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

137: Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mathias Sinning

136: Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches

Jörg Peters

135: The Importance of Global Shocks for National Policy Makers - Rising Challenges for Central Banks

Ansgar Belke and Andreas Rees

134: How Stable Are Monetary Models of the Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate? - A Time-varying Coefficient Approach

Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke and Michael Kühl

133: Does the ECB Rely on a Taylor Rule? - Comparing Ex-post with Real Time Data

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

132: Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals

Annika Herr, Hendrik Schmitz and Boris Augurzky

131: Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon, Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert

130: Effort Maximization in Asymmetric N-person Contest Games

Jörg Franke, Christian Kanzow, Wolfgang Leininger and Alexandra Väth

129: Benefiting from Publicly Funded Pre-competitive Research – Differences between Insiders and Outsiders

Verena Eckl and Dirk Engel

128: A Simple Model of an Oil Based Global Savings Glut – The "China Factor" and the OPEC Cartel

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

127: Aid, Spending Strategies and Productivity Effects – A Multi-sectoral CGE Analysis for Zambia

Volker Clausen and Hannah Schürenberg-Frosch

126: Private Equity, Investment and Financial Constraints – Firm-Level Evidence for France and the United Kingdom

Dirk Engel and Joel Stiebale

125: Deciding Who Works Where – An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia

Leilanie Basilio

124: The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Ronald Bachmann and Peggy Bechara (née David)

123: Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector

Boris Augurzky, Dirk Engel, Christoph Schmidt and Christoph Schwierz

122: Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

John P. Haisken-DeNew and Christoph Schmidt

121: Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits

John P. Haisken-DeNew and Matthias Vorell

120: The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals

Christoph Schwierz, Ansgar Wübker and Björn A. Kuchinke

119: Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany

Christoph Schwierz and Ansgar Wübker

118: Heterogeneity in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Job-to-Job Flows

Sandra Schaffner

117: Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

Sonja C. Kassenböhmer and John P. Haisken-DeNew

116: Conflict Networks

Jörg Franke and Tahir Öztürk

115: An Interest Rate Peg Might Be Better than You Think

Markus Hörmann and Andreas Schabert

114: Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation

Stefan Felder and Anja Olbrich

113: Capital Taxation, Long-run Growth, and Bequests

Lars Kunze

112: Regional Differences in the Efficiency of Health Production: an Artefact of Spatial Dependence?

Stefan Felder and Harald Tauchmann

111: Export, FDI and Productivity – Evidence for French Firms

Dirk Engel and Vivien Procher

110: Housing, Energy Cost, and the Poor – Counteracting Effects in Germany's Housing Allowance Program

Peter Grösche

109: The Purpose of Remittances – Evidence from Germany

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

108: International Outsourcing, the Nature of Tasks, and Occupational Stability – Empirical Evidence for Germany

Daniel Baumgarten

107: The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

Michael Fertig, Christoph Schmidt and Mathias Sinning

106: Expansion in Markets with Decreasing Demand – For-Profits in the German Hospital Industry

Christoph Schwierz

105: Does the Quality of Hospital Treatment Vary by Days of the Week?

Christoph Schwierz, Boris Augurzky and Juergen Wasem

104: Measuring Energy Supply Risks: A G7 Ranking

Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter and Christoph Schmidt