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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9707 Nicholas Bardsley
Milena Buechs
Sylke V. Schnepf
Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to ...
(revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.)
C13, D04, D12, H23
9706 Hugo Bodory
Lorenzo Camponovo
Martin Huber
Michael Lechner
The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators
This paper investigates the finite sample properties of a range of inference methods for propensity score-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (1), 183-200 )
C21
9705 Dennis J. Snower
Steven J. Bosworth
Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424)
A13, D03, D62, D71, I31, O10
9704 Dietmar Fehr
Matthias Sutter
Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2019, 113, 448-460.)
C72, C92
9703 Steven J. Bosworth
Tania Singer
Dennis J. Snower
Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94)
A13, C72, D01, D03, D62, D64
9702 Zhixin Dai
Fabio Galeotti
Marie Claire Villeval
Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (3), 1081-1100.)
B41, C91, C93, K42
9701 George A. Akerlof
Dennis J. Snower
Bread and Bullets
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71)
A12, A13, A14, D03, D04, D20, D23, D30, D62, D71, D72, D74, E02, E03
9700 Jason M. Lindo
Peter Siminski
Isaac D. Swensen
College Party Culture and Sexual Assault
This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law-enforcement agencies and an identification ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (1), 236–265)
I23, K42
9699 Martin Biewen
Madalina Tapalaga
Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts
We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and institutionalized branches of academic and vocational training but with the possibility to ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 80-94)
I2, C5
9698 Seamus McGuinness
Konstantinos Pouliakas
Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. ...
(published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127)
J24, J31, J70, I26
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