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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination and Selectivity
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124131
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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136575
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Can Openness Deter Corruption? The Role of Foreign Direct Investment
Larrain B., Felipe; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption discourages FDI inflows. In this paper we … inflows on corruption. We present a simple model that illustrates the two-way relationship between foreign direct investment … and corruption, identifying exactly the direction of causality that we address: how do “exogenous“ variations in FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504415
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Public Sector Motivation and Development Failures
Macchiavello, Rocco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the relationship between public sector motivation and development. In the model the public sector produces a public good and workers are heterogeneous in terms of public sector motivation (PSM). Wages in the private sector are increasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661470
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Laws and Norms
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals’ behaviors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371470
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Juvenile Delinquency and Conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008491720
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Legalizing Bribe Giving
Dufwenberg, Martin; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
proposal to legalize paying bribes while increasing fines on accepting bribes. We explore performance as regards corruption … enforcement agencies, and discuss the relevance for fighting other forms of corruption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083969
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Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment
Kugler, Maurice; Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
in corruption to avoid punishment. When law enforcers are sufficiently well-paid, difficult to bribe and corruption … organized crime to corruption, and ensuing impunity leads to higher rather than lower crime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788890
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Red Tape and Corruption
Guriev, Sergei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We study the emergence and interaction of red tape and corruption in a principal-bureaucrat-agent hierarchy. The … the social optimum if the bureaucrat in charge of red tape is corrupt. We consider two types of corruption. First, the … bribes to conceal the information produced through red tape. The former kind of corruption tends to reduce red tape, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123811