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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - In: Journal of Public Economics 123 (2015) C, pp. 17-29

incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system, which favors urban residents and discriminates against … institutionally imposed social identity on individuals' economic performance, and potentially on inequality. …

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The impacts of structural transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality in China

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 339-350

manufacturing sector toward high value-added products. However, regional inequality in China has increased considerably behind the …China has achieved unprecedented success in economic growth since the initiation of economic reforms. The high growth … transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality. This paper contributes to the literature by employing a database …

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Impact of organizational cultural differences on mergers and acquisitions performance : quantitative study of Chinese firms

Shi, Kan; Liu, Xiaoqian; Yang, Chengjun; Yao, Ziping; … - In: Journal of Chinese human resource management : JCHRM 8 (2017) 1, pp. 40-52

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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - 2011

. -- Distributive Justice ; inequality ; laboratory experiments …

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Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Gertler, Paul; Galiani, Sebastian; Cooper, Ryan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper provides empirical evidence on the causal effects that upgrading slum dwellings has on the living conditions of the extremely poor. In particular, we study the impact of providing better houses in situ to slum dwellers in El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the...

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The Behavioralist Meets the Market: Measuring Social Preferences and Reputation Effects in Actual Transactions

list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The role of the market in mitigating and mediating various forms of behavior is perhaps the central issue facing behavioral economics today. This study designs a field experiment that is explicitly linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine whether, and to what extent, social...

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Promoting rule compliance in daily-life: Evidence from a randomized field experiment in the public libraries of Barcelona

Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 266-284

We study how to promote compliance with rules that carry low penalties and are pervasive in all sorts of organizations. We have access to data on the users of all public libraries in Barcelona. In this setting, we test the effect of sending email messages with different contents. We find that...

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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the temporal separation between decisions and payoffs

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossef - In: European Economic Review 65 (2014) C, pp. 126-135

We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...

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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness

Luttmer, Erzo F.P.; Fong, Christina M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...

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Insidious Discrimination? Disentangling the Beauty Premium on a Game Show

Belot, Michèle; Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Van de Ven, Jeroen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyzes behaviour on a TV game show where players' monetary payoffs depend upon an array of factors, including ability in answering questions, perceived cooperativeness and the willingness of other players to choose them. We find a substantial beauty premium and are able to...

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