1. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia

    In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Increasing tax transparency: investor reactions to the country-by-country reporting requirement for EU financial institutions

    We employ an event study methodology to investigate the capital market reaction to the surprising political decision to adopt a public country-by-country reporting (CbCR) obligation for EU financial…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The Long(er)‐Term Impacts of Chile Solidario on Human Capital and Labor Income

    This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Matching Subsidies and Voluntary Contributions: A Review

    This paper provides a synthesis of the experimental literature on matching subsidies in the context of charitable giving. We classify results according to four different outcome variables frequently considered…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2019

    The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany

    This study analyses the selection of a sample of 203 young male asylum seekers from Middle Eastern and African countries that recently arrived in Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers in…