Essays in Applied Microeconomics

This dissertation collects three pieces of work. The first chapter documents empirically how Danish households substituted between insurance and liquidity, namely how the up-take of unemployment insurance fell when credit suddenly became more cheaply available for some. The second chapter presents r...

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Main Author: Sándor, László
Other Authors: Chetty, Raj, Katz, Lawrence F., Laibson, David I.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Economics
General
Iceland
Online Access:http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226075
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spelling ftharvardudash:oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/14226075 2023-05-15T16:48:16+02:00 Essays in Applied Microeconomics Sándor, László Chetty, Raj Katz, Lawrence F. Laibson, David I. 2015-03 application/pdf http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226075 en eng Sándor, László. 2015. Essays in Applied Microeconomics. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226075 Economics General Thesis or Dissertation text 2015 ftharvardudash 2022-04-05T09:36:13Z This dissertation collects three pieces of work. The first chapter documents empirically how Danish households substituted between insurance and liquidity, namely how the up-take of unemployment insurance fell when credit suddenly became more cheaply available for some. The second chapter presents results from a natural field experiment comparing financial and non-financial incentives to promote pro-social behavior. Finally, the third chapter presents the theoretical motivation for and results from a laboratory experiment conducted in Iceland on measuring time preferences conditional on incomes not changing, or correcting for the change when they do. public economics, labor economics, unemployment insurance, intertemporal choice, prosocial behavior Thesis Iceland Harvard University: DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
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description This dissertation collects three pieces of work. The first chapter documents empirically how Danish households substituted between insurance and liquidity, namely how the up-take of unemployment insurance fell when credit suddenly became more cheaply available for some. The second chapter presents results from a natural field experiment comparing financial and non-financial incentives to promote pro-social behavior. Finally, the third chapter presents the theoretical motivation for and results from a laboratory experiment conducted in Iceland on measuring time preferences conditional on incomes not changing, or correcting for the change when they do. public economics, labor economics, unemployment insurance, intertemporal choice, prosocial behavior
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