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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments

Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Evaluations of new infrastructure in developing countries typically focus on direct effects, such as the impact of an electrifification program on household energy use. But if new infrastructure induces people to move into an area, other local publicly provided goods may become congested,...

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Mitigating long-run health effects of drought: Evidence from South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Drought is Africa’s primary natural disaster and a pervasive source of income risk for poor households. This paper documents the long-run health effects of early life exposure to drought and investigates an important source of heterogeneity in these effects. Combining birth cohort variation in...

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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Effects of Objective and Subjective Income Comparisons on Subjective Wellbeing

Hodkinson, Brennan; Visser, Martine - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

We present results from the Cape Area Panel Study dataset investigating how social comparisons with regard to income affect subjective wellbeing of both young adults and parents. Objective and subjective measures of relative income are used, assessing how individuals compare themselves to others...

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Effects of Household Shocks and Poverty on the Timing of Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk in South Africa

Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Maughan-Brown, Brendan - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health …

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The dynamics of poverty in the first three waves of NIDS

Finn, Arden; Leibbrandt, Murray - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

We use the first three waves of data from the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to analyse poverty dynamics in … poverty exit rates increased with time, though a substantial proportion of the population was trapped in severe poverty …, defined as having income of less than half of the poverty line. The importance of demographic events in the household as …

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Effects of Household Shocks and Poverty on the Timing of Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk in South Africa

Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Maughan-Brown, Brendan - Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit … - 2013

Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health …

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What's the monetary value of distributive justice?

Corneo, Giacomo; Fong, Christina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper develops a simple theoretical model that can be implemented to estimate the willingness to pay for distributive justice. We derive a formula that allows one to recover the willingness to pay for distributive justice from the estimated coefficients of a probit regression and fiscal...

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It's All About Connections: Evidence on Network Formation

Falk, Armin; Kosfeld, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The game-theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and Goyal (2000). They distinguish between two scenarios...

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Appropriating the Commons - A Theoretical Explanation

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper we show that a simple model of fairness preferences explains major experimental regularities of common pool resource (CPR) experiments. The evidence indicates that in standard CPR games without communication and without sanctioning possibilities inefficient excess appropriation is...

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