Discussion Paper Series

DPS 24.04. Cohort Catch-Up: Exploring Trends in Student Achievement Post-Pandemic in Flanders, Belgium
Letizia Gambi, Kristof De Witte - January 2024

DPS 24.03. Persistent Spatial Equilibria.  Evidence from a Sudden River.
Luke Heath Milsom - January 2024

DPS 24.02. Doomsday to Today. 1000 Years of Spatial Inequality in England.
Luke Heath Milsom - January 2024

DPS 24.01. Targeting the Corps : The Incidence of Humanitarian Sanctions on Firm Performance in China
Jean-François Maystadt, Kampui Tsang, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Nele Warrinnier - January 2024

DPS 23.21. Essentiality Checks for Standard Essential Patents
Florian Schuett, Chayanin Mipusanawan - December 2023

DPS 23.20. A Theory of International Unions with Exits
Michal L. Kobielarz - November 2023

DPS 23.19. Early Labor Market Outcomes of Young Adults from Same-Sex Families: Evidence from Population Data
Silvia Palmaccio, Deni Mazrekaj and Kristof De Witte - November 2023

DPS 23.18. Platform Design and Rent Extraction
Amedeo Piolatto, Florian Schütt - November 2023

DPS 23.17. The Expenditure Composition and Trade-offs in Local Government Budgets
Panagiotis (Takis) Iliopoulos, Kristof De Witte - October 2023

DPS 23.16. Where Has All the Dynamism Gone ? Productivity Growth in China's Manufacturing Sector, 1998-2013
Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Luhang Wang, Yifan Zhang - September 2023

DPS 23.15. Fairness gaps for earnings tax design
Erwin Ooghe, Erik Schokkaert, Hannes Serruys - September 2023

DPS 23.14. Financial Aid Uncertainty and Low-Income Students' Higher Education Preferences
Gloria L. Bernal, Luz K. Abadia, Luis E. Alvarez-Arando, Kristof De Witte - July 2023

DPS 23.13. Productive efficiency analysis with incomplete output information
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock, Dieter Saelens and Marijn Verschelde - Augustus 2023

DPS 23.12. Spillovers from legal cooperation to tacit collusion
Jeroen Hinloopen, Stephen Martin, and Leonard Treuren - June 2023

DPS 23.11. Does personality affect the allocation of resources within households ?
Gastón P. Fernández - October 2023

DPS 23.10. Welfare effects of indirect tax policies in West Africa
Alain Babatoundé, Bart Capéau and Romain Houssa - April 2023

DPS 23.09. From unobserved to observed preference heterogeneity: a revealed preference methodology
Laurens Cherchye, Dieter Saelens and Reha Tuncer - April 2023

DPS 23.08. Nonparametric efficiency analysis with unobserved inputs in multi-output settings
Dieter Saelens - April 2023

DPS 23.07. In search of the Leviathan at the subnational level.  Evidence from OECD countries (1995-2018)
Paul Van Rompuy - April 2023

DPS 23.06. Distringuishing the Direct Causal Effect of an Intervention form its Efficiency-enhancing Effects
Oleg Badunenko, Giovanna D'Inverno and Kristof De Witte - March 2023

DPS 23.05. Bailout Dynamics in a Monetary Union
Michal Kobielarz - March 2023

DPS 23.04. Nonparametric models in consumer behaviour
Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen - March 2023

DPS 23.03. Sustainable budgeting and financial balance : Which lever will you pull ?
Giovanna D’Inverno, Francesco Vidolic and Kristof De Witte - January 2023

DPS 23.02. Quantifying consumer Taste in Trade : Evidence from Food Industry
Bee Yan Aw, Yi Lee and Hylke Vandenbussche- January 2023

DPS 23.01. The uphill battle: The amplifying effects of negative trends in test scores, COVID-19 school closures and teacher shortages
Letizia Gambi and Kristof De Witte - January 2023

DPS 22.06. Wage markups and buyer power in intermediate input markets
Leonard Treuren - November 2022

DPS 22.05. Time use, intrahousehold inequality and individual welfare: revealed preference analysis
Ruben Bostyn, Laurens Cherchye, Bram De Rock and Frederic Vermeulen - August 2022

DPS 22.04. It’s all About the Meaning : Work Meaning, Job Flexibility, and the Gender Wage Gap
Thimo De Schouwer and Iris Kesternich - July 2022

DPS 22.03. Competitive Markets and Boundedly Rational Expectations
Heiner SCHUMACHER - June 2022

DPS 22.02. Information shocks and parental response in education. A case study of an open government initiative
Silvia PALMACCIO, Fritz SCHILTZ and Kristof DE WITTE - March 2022

DPS 22.01. Structural identification of productivity under biased technological change
Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK, Cedric DUPREZ, Glenn MAGERMAN and Marijn VERSCHELDE - January 2022

DPS 21.13. Heterogeneous causal effects with imperfect compliance: a Bayesian machine learning approach
Falco J. BARGAGLI-STOFFI, Kristof DE WITTE and Giorgio GNECCO - December 2021

DPS 21.12. The resiliency of school outcomes after the COVID-19 pandemic. Standardised test scores and inequality one year after long term school closures
Letizia GAMBI and Kristof DE WITTE - October 2021

DPS 21.11. Sugar rush or sugar crash? Experimental evidence on the impact of sugary drinks in the classroom
Fritz SCHILTZ and Kristof DE WITTE - October 2021

DPS 21.10. Stable marriage, household consumption and unobserved match quality
Martin BROWNING, Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK and Frederic VERMEULEN - June 2023

DPS 21.09. Feed the children
Laurens CHERCHYE, Pierre-André CHIAPPORI, Bram DE ROCK, Charlotte RINGDAL and Frederic VERMEULEN - September 2022 (update)

DPS 21.08. Do international classes pay off? A cost-benefit analysis of the internationalisation of higher education in Flanders
Kristof DE WITTE and Mara SONCIN - June 2021

DPS 21.07. Exits and bailouts in a monetary union
Michal KOBIELARZ - May 2021

DPS 21.06. Nonparametric welfare analysis for discrete choice: levels and differences of individual and social welfare
Bart CAPÉAU, Liebrecht DE SADELEER, Sebastiaan MAES and André DECOSTER - May 2021

DPS 21.05. Climate ambitions for European Aviation: where can sustainable aviation fuels bring us?
Inge MAYERES, Stef PROOST, Eef DELHAYE, Philippe NOVELLI, Sjaak CONIJN, Inmaculada GÓMEZ-JIMÉNEZ and Daniel RIVAS-BROUSSE - March 2021

DPS 21.04. Covid-19 externality and optimal transport policy
Bruno DE BORGER and Stef PROOST - February 2021

DPS 21.03. Prioritarianism in education
Erwin OOGHE - February 2021

DPS 21.02. Measuring social progress
Koen DECANCQ and Erik SCHOKKAERT - January 2021

DPS 21.01. Empirical research on ethical preferences: how popular is prioritarianism?
Erik SCHOKKAERT and Benoît TARROUX - January 2021

DPS 20.21. How politics influence public good provision
Vitezslav TITL and Kristof DE WITTE - December 2020

DPS 20.20. The effects of computer-assisted adaptive instruction and elaborated feedback on learning outcomes. A randomized control trial
Kaat ITERBEKE, Kristof DE WITTE and Wouter SCHELFHOUT - November 2020

DPS 20.19. Helpful or harmful? The role of personality traits in student experiences of the COVID-19 crisis and school closure
Kaat ITERBEKE and Kristof DE WITTE - October 2020

DPS 20.18. The income gradient in mortality during the Covid-19 crisis: evidence from Belgium
André DECOSTER, Thomas MINTEN and Johannes SPINNEWIJN - September 2020

DPS 20.17. The effect of school closures on standardised student test outcomes
Joana Elisa MALDONADO and Kristof DE WITTE - September 2020

DPS 20.16. Role of quality differentiation on firm size distributions
William CONNELL and Hylke VANDENBUSSCHE - September 2020

DPS 20.15. Fiscal externalities in higher education
Koen DECLERCQ and Erwin OOGHE - September 2020

DPS 20.14. Impact evaluation in a multi-imput multi-output setting: evidence on the effect of additional resources for schools
Giovanna D'INVERNO, Mike SMET and Kristof DE WITTE - August 2020

DPS 20.13. Consumer search and the uncertainty effect
Heiko KARLE, Heiner SCHUMACHER and  Rune VØLUND - July 2020

DPS 20.12. Local government size and service level provision. Evidence from conditional non-parametric analysis
Giovanna D'INVERNO, Wim MOESEN and Kristof DE WITTE - July 2020

DPS 20.11. Service level provision in municipalities: a flexible directional distance composite indicator
Giovanna D'INVERNO and Kristof DE WITTE - June 2020

DPS 20.10. Evaluating the impact of market integration - Banning online trade restrictions in the EU portable PC market
Néstor DUTCH-BROWN,  Lukasz GRZYBOWSKI, André ROMAHN and Frank VERBOVEN - June 2020

DPS 20.09. Are consumers rational? Shifting the burden of proof
Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK and Joshua LANIER - June 2020

DPS 20.08. Work meaning and labor supply
Iris KESTERNICH, Heiner SCHUMACHER, Bettina SIFLINGER and Stefan SCHWARZ - May 2020

DPS 20.07. The cost of favoritism in public procurement
Bruno BARÁNEK and Vítězslav TITL - May 2020

DPS 20.06. Machine learning for zombie hunting. Firm's failures and financial constraints
Falco J. BARGAGLI-STOFFI, Massimo RICCABONI and Armando RUNGI - April 2020

DPS 20.05. Managerial knowledge and technology choice: Evidence from U.S. mining schools
Michael RUBENS - April 2020

DPS 20.04. Comparative advantage in (non-)routine production
Liza ARCHANSKAIA , Johannes VAN BIESEBROECK and Gerald WILLMANN - April 2020

DPS 20.03. Entry decisions and asymmetric competition between non-profit and for-profit homes int the long-term care market
Iris GRANT, Iris KESTERNICH and Johannes VAN BIESEBROECK - April 2020

DPS 20.02. Measuring cumulative deprivation and affluence based on the diagonal dependence diagram
Koen DECANCQ - March 2020

DPS 20.01. Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile: good work for incentives?
Bart COCKX, Koen DECLERCQ, Muriel DEJEMEPPE, Leda INGA and Bruno VAN DER LINDEN - February 2020

DPS 19.14. The effects of parental involvement in homework. Two randomised controlled trials in financial education
 Joana Elisa MALDONADO, Kristof DE WITTE and Koen DECLERCQ - December 2019

DPS 19.13. Revealed preference analysis of expected utility maximization under prize-probability trade-offs
Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK and Mikhail FREER - November 2019

DPS 19.12. Learning about demand abroad from wholesalers: a B2B analysis
William CONNELL, Emmanuel DHYNE and Hylke VANDENBUSSCHE - November 2019

DPS 19.11. Unitary or collective household decisions? A non-parametric test using detailed data on household expenditures and time use
Dieter SAELENS - October 2019

DPS 19.10.  Markets, queues, and taxes
Erwin OOGHE - October 2019

DPS 19.09. Preferences for redistribution and exposure to tax-benefit schemes in Europe
Francesco ANDREOLI and Javier OLIVERA - October 2019

DPS 19.08. Non-parametric analysis of random utility models: computational tools for statistical testing
Bart SMEULDERS, Laurens CHERCHYE and Bram DE ROCK - August 2019

DPS 19.07. Non-parametric well-being comparisons
Koen DECANCQ and Annemie NYS - July 2019

DPS 19.06. Choice of pension management fees and effects on pension wealth
Noelia BERNAL and Javier OLIVERA - May 2019

DPS 19.05. Interpersonal comparisons by means of money metric utilities: why one should use the same reference prices for all
Bart CAPÉAU, André DECOSTER and Liebrecht DE SADELEER - March 2019

DPS 19.04. Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs: an application to Brexit
Hylke VANDENBUSSCHE, William CONNELL and Wouter SIMONS - March 2019

DPS 19.03. Identifying financially illiterate groups: an international comparison
Kenneth DE BECKKER, Kristof DE WITTE and Geert VAN CAMPENHOUT - March 2019

DPS 19.02. The importance of consumer taste in trade
Bee Yan AW, Yi LEE and Hylke VANDENBUSSCHE - March 2019

DPS 19.01. The role of teacher professional development in financial literacy education: a systematic literature review
Boukje COMPEN, Kristof DE WITTE and Wouter SCHELFHOUT - January 2019

DPS 18.16. Which way the pendulum swings? Equity and efficiency of 26 years of tax-benefit reforms in Belgium
André DECOSTER, Sergio PERELMAN, Dieter VANDELANNOOTE, Toon VANHEUKELOM and Gerlinde VERBIST - December 2018

DPS 18.15. Equilibrium play in first price auctions: revealed preference analysis
Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK and Mikhail FREER - December 2018

DPS 18.14. Program evaluation and ethnic differences: the Pension 65 program in Peru
Koen DECANCQ, Javier OLIVERA and Erik SCHOKKAERT - November 2018

DPS 18.13. New VAR evidence on monetary transmission channels: temporary interest rate versus inflation target shocks
Elizaveta LUKMANOVA and Katrin RABITSCH - November 2018

DPS 18.12. Road tolls, diverted traffic and local traffic calming measures: who should be in charge?
Bruno DE BORGER and Stef PROOST - October 2018

DPS 18.11. Nonparametric production analysis with unobserved heterogeneity in productivity
Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK and Marijn VERSCHELDE - September 2018

DPS 18.10. Piecemeal modelling of the effects of joint direct and indirect tax reforms
Bart CAPÉAU, André DECOSTER, Sebastiaan MAES and Toon VANHEUKELOM - September 2018

DPS 18.09. Labour market consequences of a high school diploma
Deni MAZREKAJ, Kristof DE WITTE and Sarah VANSTEENKISTE - July 2018

DPS 18.08. Strategic public policy around population thresholds 
Kristof DE WITTE, Benny GEYS and Nanna Lauritz SCHÖNHAGE - July 2018

DPS 18.07. How "efficient" are intercity railway prices and frequencies in Europe? Comparing a corridor in Belgium and in France 
Guillaume MONCHAMBERT and Stef PROOST - July 2018

DPS 18.06. Revealed social preferences 
Arthur DOLGOPOLOV and Mikhail FREER - July 2018

DPS 18.05. Who is afraid of Bayesian persuasion? 
Luc LAUWERS and  Patrick VAN CAYSEELE - June 2018

DPS 18.04. Revealed preference analysis with normal goods: application to cost of living indices
Laurens CHERCHYE, Thomas DEMUYNCK, Bram DE ROCK and Khushboo SURANA - April 2018

DPS 18.03. Decomposing firm-product appeal: how important is consumer taste?
Bee yan AW, Yi LEE and Hylke VANDENBUSSCHE - February 2018

DPS 18.02. The cost of non-TTIP: a global value chain approach
Hylke VANDENBUSSCHE, William CONNELL and Wouter SIMONS - February 2018

DPS 18.01. Collective experimentation: a laboratory study
Mikhail FREER, César MARTINELLI and Siyu WANG - January 2018