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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8585 Helios Herrera
Ernesto Reuben
Michael M. Ting
Turf Wars
Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152, 143-153)
D73, D74, D82
8582 Arnaud Chevalier
Peter Dolton
Melanie Lührmann
"Making It Count": Evidence from a Field Study on Assessment Rules, Study Incentives and Student Performance
This paper examines a quasi-experiment in which we encourage student effort by setting various weekly incentives to engage in online tests. Our identification strategy exploits i) weekly variation in ...
(published as ''Making it count’: incentives, student effort and performance' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (2), 323 - 349)
I23, D20
8581 Utteeyo Dasgupta
Lata Gangadharan
Pushkar Maitra
Subha Mani
Samyukta Subramanian
Choosing to Be Trained: Do Behavioral Traits Matter?
In this paper, we examine the determinants of self-selection into a vocational training program in India. To do this we combine data from an artefactual field experiment with survey data collected ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110, 145-159.)
J24, C93, C81
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
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