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Does Child Gender Affect Marital Status?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Pooling microdata from five Australian censuses, I explore the relationship between child gender and divorce. By … contrast with the United States, I find no evidence that the gender of the first child has a significant impact on the decision … to marry or divorce. However, among two-child families, parents with two children of the same sex are 1.7 percentage …

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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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Materialism on the March: From Conspicuous Leisure to Conspicuous Consumption?

Frijters, Paul; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

This paper inserts Veblen’s (1898) concepts of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption into a very simple model. Individuals have the choice to either invest their time into working, leading to easily observable levels of consumption, or into conspicuous leisure, whose effect on...

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Disentangling the Sources of Pro-social Behavior in the Workplace: A Field Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2009

impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …

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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2013

In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...

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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2015

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Does the Lunar Cycle Affect Birth and Deaths?

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

There is a commonplace notion that full moons affect natality and mortality. To test this theory, we obtain daily births and deaths data from Australia, covering all 10,592 days from 1 January 1975 to 31 December 2003. We find that full moons are not associated with any significant change in the...

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Born on the First of July: An (Un)natural Experiment in Birth Timing

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

from a unique policy change in Australia. In 2004, the Australian government announced that children born on or after July … the days before the policy commenced. On July 1, 2004, more Australian children were born than on any other single date in …

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Minding the Shop: The Case of Obstetrics Conferences

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

We estimate the impact of annual obstetricians and gynecologists’ conferences on births in Australia and the United States. In both countries, the number of births drops by 1 to 4 percent during the days on which these conferences are held. We argue that for this reason professional obstetrics...

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Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients have any Power?

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that parents do not like to have children born on the “inauspicious” dates of … preferences. When these inauspicious dates abut a weekend, this creates a potential conflict between avoiding the inauspicious … date, and avoiding the weekend. We find that in approximately three-quarters of cases, this conflict is resolved in favor …

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