Gender differences in task allocations may sustain vertical gender segregation in labor
markets. We examine the allocation of a task that everyone prefers be completed by …

In this paper, we provide efficient estimators and honest confidence bands for a variety of
treatment effects including local average (LATE) and local quantile treatment effects (LQTE) …

Low willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental quality in developing countries is a key
research question in environmental economics. One explanation is that missing credit …

Modern societies rely on both formal and social mechanisms to enforce social norms of
behavior. Formal enforcement mechanisms rely on monetary or other tangible incentives …

There are vast differences in homeownership rates across countries. We show that, both
within and across countries, people's decision to buy versus rent is strongly affected by …

Analyzing the British Election Study from 1964 to 2010, we examine the influence of
electoral context on turnout, focusing on the closeness of elections in terms of lagged seat …

We propose a bootstrap procedure for data that may exhibit clustering in two or more
dimensions. We use insights from the theory of generalized U-statistics to analyze the large …

The endogenous choice of groups can have an important effect on coordination behavior,
but it is an underexplored area of research. In this study, I examine how endogenous group …

We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped
establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the …

The bootstrap is a convenient tool for calculating standard errors of the parameter estimates
of complicated econometric models. Unfortunately, the fact that these models are …