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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8580 Simon Gächter
Elke Renner
Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax ...
(revised version published as 'Leaders as role models and 'belief managers' in social dilemmas' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 154, 321-334 )
C72, C90, H41, Z13
8579 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Lata Gangadharan
Pushkar Maitra
Subha Mani
De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: An Experimental Investigation
The goal of this paper is to examine stability in preferences using the Stigler-Becker state-dependent framework. Using a randomized intervention that changes the opportunity sets of individuals we ...
(published as 'Searching for Preference Stability in a State Dependent World' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 17- 32.)
C9, D01, D03
8577 Martin Koudstaal
Randolph Sloof
Mirjam C. van Praag
Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (10), 2897 - 2915)
L26, C93, D03, M13
8576 Francesco Fasani
Understanding the Role of Immigrants' Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments
Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61(3-4), 722-763)
F22, J61, K37
8574 Michele Battisti
Gabriel Felbermayr
Giovanni Peri
Panu Poutvaara
Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018,16 (4), 1137 - 1188)
F22, J61, J64
8573 Mikolaj Herbst
Pawel Kaczmarczyk
Piotr Wojcik
Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework: Evidence from Poland
According to the economic literature human capital is a critical growth factor. This is why migration of individuals well endowed with human capital is subject of interest for both academics and ...
(published in: Central European Economic Journal, 2017, 1 (48), 1-18)
I25, J24, J61, J62
8572 Ingo E. Isphording
Language and Labor Market Success
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical ...
(published in: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015, Pages 260-265)
J24, J31, J61
8571 Amelie F. Constant
Ethnic Identity and Work
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in ...
(published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112)
F22, J15, Z10
8570 Solomon Polachek
Xu Zhang
Xing Zhou
A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a ...
(published in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, Research in Labor Economics, 41, 2015, 35-88.)
J1, J2, J3, J43, J7, J8, N3, N9, O5, Y8, Z13
8569 Katrin Auspurg
Maria Iacovou
Cheti Nicoletti
Housework Share between Partners: Experimental Evidence on Gender Identity
Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2017, 66, 118-139)
J16, J22, C35
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