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Hazardous or not? Cannabis use and early labor market experiences of young men.

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Legalizing recreational cannabis use: a promising journey into the unknown

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The joy of lottery play: evidence from a field experiment

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Beyond Okun's Law: Output Growth and Labor Market Flows

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Hazardous or Not? Early Cannabis Use, and the School to Work Transition of Young Men

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Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 239 most recent scholarly works by Jan van Ours.

Mental Health Effects of Retirement

Matteo Picchio, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | De Economist

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the..

Hazardous or not? Cannabis use and early labor market experiences of young men.

Jenny Williams, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | Health Economics

We study the relationship between cannabis use and early labor market experiences of young men, focusing on the time it takes them..

Legalizing recreational cannabis use: a promising journey into the unknown

JC van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | World Psychiatry

In order to evaluate the impact of the current legalization experiences, it is cru-cial to measure their efects both ..

The joy of lottery play: evidence from a field experiment

Martijn J Burger, Martijn Hendriks, Emma Pleeging, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | Experimental Economics

Buying lottery tickets is not a rational investment from a financial point of view. Yet, the majority of people participate at lea..

Beyond Okun's Law: Output Growth and Labor Market Flows

Guay Lim, Robert Dixon, Jan van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | Empirical Economics

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach based on labor..

Hazardous or Not? Early Cannabis Use, and the School to Work Transition of Young Men

Jenny Williams, J van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | Health Economics

We study the relationship between cannabis use and early labor market experiences of young men, focusing on the time it takes them..

Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving

Shannon WARD, Jenny Williams, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2020 | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Boys typically initiate delinquent behaviour during their teenage years, and many go on to be arrested. We show that engaging in d..

The impact of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries

Ali Palali, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | European Journal of Health Economics

We investigate the effect of tobacco control policies on smoking initiation in eleven European countries. Based on individual data..

Cannabis prices on the dark web

J Červený, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | European Economic Review

This paper examines prices of cannabis sold over the anonymous internet marketplace AlphaBay. We analyze cannabis prices of 500 li..

Does drug use lead to homelessness for young, disadvantaged people?

D McVicar, J Moschion, J van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | Significance

Drug use among homeless young people tends to be higher than drug use among those who are not homeless. Is that because drug use c..

How outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality affect stadium attendance in Dutch professional football

LM Besters, JC van Ours, MA van Tuijl

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of Economic Psychology

We investigate stadium attendance in the highest level of Dutch professional football for the seasons 2000/01–2015/16 focusing on ..

Dialect speech and wages

Y Yao, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | Economics Letters

Our paper studies the causal effect of dialect speech on wages of native Dutch workers. Using an instrumental variable approach, w..

A Note on Artificial Pitches and Home Advantage in Dutch Professional Football

JC van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | Economist (Netherlands)

In professional football there is an advantage of playing at home. In the Netherlands, in the Eredivisie, the top tier of professi..

Health Economics of the Workplace: Workplace Accidents and Effects of Job Loss and Retirement

Jan van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | Oxford Encyclopedia of Health Economics

There are three main topics in research on the effects of work on health. The first topic is workplace accidents where the main i..

Cannabis prices on the dark web

Jan van Ours, Jakub Cerveny

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2019

With the recent trends in legalisation and with the transition of illegal drug markets to the internet, much more detailed informa..

Early illicit drug use and the age of onset of homelessness

D McVicar, J Moschion, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society)

We investigate the effect of taking up daily use of cannabis on the onset of homelessness by using Australian data. We use a bivar..

Daily dialect-speaking and wages among native Dutch speakers

Y Yao, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | Empirica

Our paper studies the effects of daily dialect-speaking on hourly wages of native Dutch workers. The unconditional difference in m..

Do Childhood Experiences of Parental Separation Lead to Homelessness?

J Moschion, J van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | European Economic Review

This paper investigates whether parental separation increases the likelihood of becoming homeless for disadvantaged households. Pr..

Beyond Okun’s law: Introducing labour market flows

Jan van Ours, Guay Lim, Robert Dixon

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2019

One version of Okun’s law specifies a relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth. This column uses..

Symbolism matters: The effect of same-sex marriage legalisation on partnership stability

Jan van Ours, Shuai Chen

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website | 2019

n January 1998, registered partnerships were introduced in Dutch law for both same-sex and different-sex couples. A few years late..

The minimum wage in the Netherlands

J van Ours

Journal article | 2019 | CESifo DICE Report

In 2017, 47% of the employees had a 36 -hour working week, 9% had a 37-hour working week, 31% had a 38 -hour working week and 13% ..

Subjective Well-being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?

S Chen, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2018 | Demography

We analyze Dutch panel data to investigate whether partnership has a causal effect on subjective well-being. As in previous studie..

Effects of a red card on goal-scoring in World Cup football matches

J Červený, JC van Ours, MA van Tuijl

Journal article | 2018 | Empirical Economics

We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 ..

Labour Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery

Matteo Picchio, Sigrid Suetens, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2018 | The Economic Journal

Our article investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labour supply. Analysing data from Dutch State Lottery wi..

U.S. Immigration Reform and the Migration Dynamics of Mexican Males

J van Ours, K Altangerel

Journal article | 2017 | De Economist

The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration throu..

Cannabis use and support for cannabis legalization

Ali Palali, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | Empirical Economics

Love Conquers all but Nicotine: Spousal Peer Effects on the Decision to Quit Smoking

Ali Palali, Jan C Van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | Health Economics

Data on cannabis use now that legalization is gaining momentum

Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | Addiction

Temporary jobs and the severity of workplace accidents

Matteo Picchio, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | Journal of Safety Research

Do Childhood Experiences of Parental Separation Lead to Homelessness?

J MOSCHION, JC van Ours

Report | 2017

This paper investigates the effect of parental separation on homelessness. Previous studies have only been able to provide descrip..

Cannabis decriminalization and the age of onset of cannabis use

Jakub Cerveny, Pavla Chomynova, Viktor Mravcik, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | International Journal of Drug Policy

Workplace Accidents and Workplace Safety: On Under-reporting and Temporary Jobs

Ali Palali, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | LABOUR

Revisiting the Okun relationship

R DIXON, G Lim, JC van Ours

Journal article | 2017 | Applied Economics

Our article revisits the Okun relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the relationship the..

Effectiveness of In-Season Coach Dismissal

Lucas M Besters, Jan C van Ours, Martin A van Tuijl

Book Chapter | 2017

Sports have become a fruitful field of research. First, studying sports is interesting in itself. Second, there are similarities b..

The educational consequences of language proficiency for young children

Yuxin Yao, Asako Ohinata, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2016 | ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW

How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job: evidence from a policy experiment

Marike Knoef, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2016 | Journal of Population Economics

Effectiveness of In-Season Manager Changes in English Premier League Football

LM Besters, JC van Ours, MA van Tuijl

Journal article | 2016 | ECONOMIST-NETHERLANDS

We analyze the performance effects of in-season manager changes in English Premier League football during the seasons 2000/2001–20..

Attitudes to legalizing cannabis use

Jenny Williams, Jan C van Ours, Michael Grossman

Journal article | 2016 | Health Economics

The Engine Immobiliser: A Non-starter for Car Thieves

Jan C van Ours, Ben Vollaard

Journal article | 2016 | Economic Journal

Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools

Asako Ohinata, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2016 | Labour

Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training

Mattea Picchio, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2016 | JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION

Editorial Report 2015

J van Ours

Journal article | 2016 | De Economist

IN-SEASON HEAD-COACH DISMISSALS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL TEAMS

Jan C van Ours, Martin A van Tuijl

Journal article | 2016 | ECONOMIC INQUIRY

CANNABIS USE AND ITS EFFECTS ON HEALTH, EDUCATION AND LABOR MARKET SUCCESS

Jan C van Ours, Jenny Williams

Journal article | 2015 | Journal of Economic Surveys

Distance to Cannabis Shops and Age of Onset of Cannabis Use

Ali Palali, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2015 | Health Economics

Bad Behavior: Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving

J WILLIAMS, J Van Ours, S Ward

Report | 2015

From substance use to homelessness or vice versa?

Duncan McVicar, Julie Moschion, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2015 | SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Positive Assortative Matching: Evidence from Sports Data

Antonio Filippin, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2015 | INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Language skills and labor market performance of immigrants in the Netherlands

Yuxin Yao, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2015 | LABOUR ECONOMICS

The Great Recession was not so great

Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2015 | LABOUR ECONOMICS

The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Robert Dixon, GC Lim, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2015 | Applied Economics

Immigration: What about the children and grandchildren?

A Sweetman, JC Van Ours

Conference Proceedings | 2015 | Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Patrick Hullegie, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2014 | ECONOMIST-NETHERLANDS

Unhappiness and Job Finding

Anne C Gielen, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2014 | Economica

Reading to young children: A head-start in life?

Guyonne Kalb, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2014 | Economics of Education Review

Dutch Economists Top 40

Jaap H Abbring, Bart J Bronnenberg, Pieter A Gautier, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2014 | De Economist

Reading to young children: A head-start in life?

G Kalb, JC Van Ours

Report | 2014 | Economics of Education Review

LABOR MARKET EFFECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DESIGN

Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Economic Surveys

Health Consequences of Illicit Drugs Use

J WILLIAMS, J Van Ours

Book Chapter | 2014

The Encyclopedia of Health Economics offers students, researchers and policymakers objective and detailed empirical analysis and c..

Editorial Report 2013

Jan van Ours

Journal article | 2014 | De Economist

Illegal Drug Use, Health Effects of

JC van Ours, J Williams

Book Chapter | 2014

Unemployment of Non-Western Immigrants in the Great Recession

Jakub Cerveny, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | De Economist

HOW EFFECTIVE ARE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SANCTIONS? LOOKING BEYOND UNEMPLOYMENT EXIT

Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive, Jan C Van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Applied Econometrics

How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children

Asako Ohinata, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | The Economic Journal

Cannabis use and suicidal ideation

Jan C van Ours, Jenny Williams, David Fergusson, L John Horwood

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Health Economics

When is the Price Cost Margin a Safe Way to Measure Changes in Competition?

Jan Boone, Jan C van Ours, Henry van der Wiel

Journal article | 2013 | De Economist

CARROT AND STICK: HOW RE-EMPLOYMENT BONUSES AND BENEFIT SANCTIONS AFFECT EXIT RATES FROM WELFARE

Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C Van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Applied Econometrics

Editorial report 2012

Jan van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | De Economist

Retaining through training even for older workers

Matteo Picchio, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | Economics of Education Review

Part-time jobs: what women want?

Alison L Booth, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of Population Economics

Why is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Jan Boone, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2012 | De Economist

The Dutch labour market: Great recession - Small impact

JC van Ours

Journal article | 2012 | CESifo DICE Report

Financial Crisis Issue: Introduction

G De Ménil, R Portes, HW Sinn, T Jappelli, P Lane, P Martin, J Van Ours

Book | 2012

Economic Policy 62

G De Ménil, R Portes, HW Sinn, T Jappelli, P Lane, P Martin, J Van Ours

Book | 2012

Young immigrant children and their educational attainment

Asako Ohinata, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2012 | Economics Letters

The effects of cannabis use on physical and mental health

Jan C van Ours, Jenny Williams

Journal article | 2012 | Journal of Health Economics

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO CANNABIS LEGALIZATION

Jan C Van Ours

Journal article | 2012 | Addiction

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Journal article | 2012 | De Economist

Ongelukkige werklozen vinden niet sneller een baan

A Gielen, JC Van Ours

Journal article | 2012 | Economisch-Statistische Berichten

Cannabis use and suicidal ideation

JC Van Ours, J Williams, D Fergusson, L Horwood

Report | 2012

Incentive effects of unemployment insurance savings accounts: Evidence from Chile

Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan C van Ours, Milan Vodopivec

Journal article | 2011 | Labour Economics

CANNABIS USE AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

Jan C van Ours, Jenny Williams

Journal article | 2011 | Journal of Applied Econometrics

Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits

Rafael Lalive, Jan C van Ours, Josef Zweimuller

Journal article | 2011 | Journal of Population Economics

Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training

Matteo Picchio, Jan C van Ours

Journal article | 2011 | Labour Economics

Recessions are bad for workplace safety

Jan Boone, Jan C van Ours, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimueller

Journal article | 2011 | Journal of Health Economics

Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing

Jan C van Ours, Lenny Stoeldraijer

Journal article | 2011 | De Economist

An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding

BK Graversen, JC Van Ours

Journal article | 2011 | Labour

Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches

Jan C van Ours, Martin A van Tuijl

Journal article | 2011 | International Journal of Sport Finance