Journal of Public Economics

This code generates the simulations reported in "Optimal Default Options" by B. Douglas Bernheim and Jonas Mueller-Gastell, published in the Journal of Public Economics, September 2024.

Replication files for Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen, Jakob Egholt Søgaard, The division of parental leave: Empirical evidence and policy design, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 238, 2024, 105202, ISSN 0047-2727, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105202. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001385) Abstract: We study several key aspects of the design of parental leave systems. First, we estimate parents’ willingness to pay for parental leave using Danish administrative data on the division of leave from almost 190,000 births combined with sharp variation in economic incentives created by the parental leave benefit system. We find evidence of both strong behavioral responses with significant bunching at kink points and a willingness to pay for a gender-traditional allocation of leave, where fathers take little or no leave. Second, we provide a menu of counterfactual policy simulations showing substantial interaction effects between earmarked leave, replacement rates and the duration of leave benefits. Relevant for the implementation of a recent EU directive, a higher replacement rate significantly increases the behavioral response of fathers to earmarked leave. Finally, we discuss the welfare effects of different policies aimed at increasing the parental leave of fathers. Keywords: Parental leave; Intra-household allocation; Bunching; Policy design

Replication files for the article "Organised Crime, Violence and Support for the State".

Replication files for the article: "The Place-Based Effects of Police Stations on Crime: Evidence from Station Closures"

Data and code for "Sanctioning and trustworthiness across ethnic groups: Experimental evidence from Afghanistan" (see notes in the code)

The folder contains the Stata data files to replicate Tables and Figures.

raw data

STATA replication package for tables and figures presented in «Regional Resources and Democratic Secessionism», Journal of Public Economics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.104073). Abstract: Although resources have been shown to influence secessionist conflicts in developing countries, their effect in established democracies has largely been neglected. We integrate regional resources and inter-regional transfers in a model of democratic secession, and show that relative regional income correlates positively with secessionist party success in a large panel of regions. To establish causality, our difference-in-differences and triple-differences designs exploit that Scotland and Wales both feature separatist parties, but only an independent Scotland would profit from oil discoveries off its coast. We document an economically and statistically significant positive effect of regional resources and rule out plausible alternative explanations.

Data and do file regarding our laboratory experiment.

This is the data associated with the paper "Using referenda to improve targeting and decrease costs of conditional cash transfers." This dataset is also available through the World Banks Microdata Repository, which contains a broader description of the data collection process, in January of 2019: http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/home.