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74 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17811
Property Rights, Sick Pay and Effort Supply
Pablo Blanchard, Gabriel Burdin, Andres Dean
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17090
Nonlinear Reimbursement Rules for Preventive and Curative Medical Care
Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16778
Patient Cost-Sharing and Redistribution in Health Insurance
Tobias J. Klein, Martin Salm, Suraj Upadhyay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16495
Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence
Gerard J. van den Berg, Hanno Foerster, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15446
Till Debt Do Us Part: Strategic Divorces and a Test of Moral Hazard
Yeorim Kim, Mauro Mastrogiacomo, Stefan Hochguertel, Hans Bloemen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15164
Workers' Moral Hazard and Insurer Effort in Disability Insurance
Pierre Koning, Max van Lent
published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2024, 91 (4), 1049 - 1088
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14852
Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-Sided Noncompliance
Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14176
Moral Hazard Heterogeneity: Genes and Health Insurance Influence Smoking after a Health Shock
Pietro Biroli, Laura Zwyssig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13132
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization, and Welfare Effects
J. Catherine Maclean, Stefan Pichler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12939
Vaccines at Work
Manuel Hoffmann, Roberto Mosquera, Adrian Chadi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12731
How Do Low-Income Enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces Respond to Cost-Sharing?
Kurt Lavetti, Thomas DeLeire, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2023, 90 (1), 155 - 183
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12181
Absenteeism on Bridging Days
René Böheim, Thomas Leoni
published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1667–1671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12171
Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
Andrea Albanese, Corinna Ghirelli, Matteo Picchio
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101846
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12128
Optimal Social Insurance and Rising Labor Market Risk
Tom Krebs, Martin Scheffel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11637
Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions
Damien de Walque, Christine Valente
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 256–285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11489
The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Jennifer Doleac, Anita Mukherjee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11444
Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Charles Courtemanche, Andrew I. Friedson, Daniel I. Rees
published as 'Association of Ambulance Use in New York City With the Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ' in: JAMA Network Open, 2019, 2 (6), e196419.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11289
Empowerment and the Dark Side of Delegation
Matthias Kräkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11117
Long-Run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana
Patrick Opoku Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Armand Sim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10645
Equality of Opportunity, Moral Hazard and the Timing of Luck
Arnaud Lefranc, Alain Trannoy
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49 (3/4), 469 - 497
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10621
Benefit Generosity and Injury Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regression Kinks
Benjamin Hansen, Tuan Nguyen, Glen R. Waddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10262
Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration
Pedro S. Martins
published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2021, 43 (5), 1016-1030
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9865
Job Displacement Insurance: A Policy Typology
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9824
Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9823
The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance
Donald O. Parsons
published in: Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2019, 86 (2), 351 - 380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9772
Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
Michela Ponzo, Vincenzo Scoppa
published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9712
Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?
Dhaval M. Dave, Robert Kaestner, George Wehby
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9626
The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9142
Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario
Jasmin Kantarevic, Boris Kralj
published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (10), 1326-40.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9091
The Effect of Statutory Sick Pay Regulations on Workers' Health
Martin Halla, Susanne Pech, Martina Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9090
Can Compulsory Dialogues Nudge Sick-Listed Workers Back to Work?
Simen Markussen, Knut Røed, Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner
published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (610), 1276-1303
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8815
The Design of Insurance Coverage for Medical Products under Imperfect Competition
David Bardey, Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 137, 28 -37
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8667
Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance
Alice Fabre, Stéphane Pallage, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8492
Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking
Jesse Margolis, Jason Hockenberry, Michael Grossman, Shin-Yi Chou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8386
Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform
Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Anne C. Gielen
published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), 606-621.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7961
Dynamic Contracts and Learning by Doing
Julien Prat
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7714
Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Loukas Balafoutas, Rudolf Kerschbamer, Matthias Sutter
published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1-18.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7641
Understanding Severance Pay
Donald O. Parsons
Cuadernos de Economía (Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance), 2013, 36 (106), 155-165.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7379
Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities
Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson, Erica Lindahl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7321
Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking
Roland Benabou, Jean Tirole
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (2), 305–370
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7271
Authority and Incentives in Organizations
Matthias Kräkel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7044
Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag
published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6782
Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees
Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen, Filip Pertold
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6245
Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures
Assar Lindbeck, Mårten Palme, Mats Persson
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 49-78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6005
Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences
René Böheim, Thomas Leoni
published in: Sandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122(2), 553–581
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6003
Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5876
Severance Pay Mandates: Firing Costs, Hiring Costs, and Firm Avoidance Behaviors
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5663
How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Alessandro Cigno
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26 (1), 61-67
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5577
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment
Ana Ferrer, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5325
Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Wendelin Schnedler
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IZA Discussion Paper No. 5201
Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions
Giuseppe Bertola, Winfried Koeniger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5170
The Dilemma of Delegating Search: Budgeting in Public Employment Services
John T. Addison, Martin Altemeyer-Bartscher, Thomas Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5027
Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent Is Free to Leave
Florian Englmaier, Gerd Muehlheusser, Andreas Roider
revised version published as 'Optimal Incentive Contracts for Knowledge Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 67, 82-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4782
Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
Robert Dur, Arjan Non, Hein Roelfsema
published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4373
Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions
Steven Y. Wu
published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010, 91 (1), 28 - 41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4179
Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic
Alessandro Cigno, Annalisa Luporini
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 349-364
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4071
Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers
Jean-Olivier Hairault, François Langot, Sébastien Ménard, Thepthida Sopraseuth
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 509-519
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3862
On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations
Pascal Courty, Gerald Marschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3698
A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care
Jonneke Bolhaar, Maarten Lindeboom, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 669-690
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3295
Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians
Stefano Gagliarducci, Tommaso Nannicini, Paolo Naticchioni
published as 'Moonlighting Politicians' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 688-699
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3077
You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
Wendelin Schnedler
published as ' You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: Bonuses, Perceived Income and Effort ' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (1), 1 - 10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3013
Legitimacy of Control
Wendelin Schnedler, Radovan Vadovic
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (4), 985-1009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2973
Job Assignments under Moral Hazard: The Peter Principle Revisited
Alexander K. Koch, Julia Nafziger
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2012, 21 (4), 1029-1059
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1813
Contractual Employment Protection and the Scarring Risk of Unemployment
Elke J. Jahn, Thomas Wagner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1669
Division of Labour and Directed Production
Marisa Ratto, Wendelin Schnedler
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy , 2008, 8 (1), Article 27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1532
Moral Hazard and Cash Benefits in Long-Term Home Care
Bernard van den Berg, Wolter Hassink
published as "Cash benefits in long-term home care" in: Health Policy, 2008, 88 (2-3), 209-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1172
On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse
Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9 (5), 867-884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1143
High Compensation Creates a Ratchet Effect
Hans Gersbach, Amihai Glazer
published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1208 - 1224
IZA Discussion Paper No. 780
Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort
Axel Engellandt, Regina T. Riphahn
published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 281-299
IZA Discussion Paper No. 765
On the Prudence of Rewarding A While Hoping for B
Wendelin Schnedler
improved version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 2124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 681
An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Marcus Hagedorn, Ashok Kaul, Tim Mennel
published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (3), 490-502
IZA Discussion Paper No. 622
Should UI Benefits Really Fall Over Time?
John Hassler, José V. Rodriguez Mora
IZA Discussion Paper No. 464
The Hold-Down Problem and the Boundaries of the Firm: Lesson from a Hidden Action Model with Endogenous Outside Option
Wendelin Schnedler, Uwe Sunde
IZA Discussion Paper No. 317
Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
Rainer Winkelmann
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (4), 455-472
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