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The Impact of Losing in a Competition on the Willingness to Seek Further Challenges

Buser, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...

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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major

Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - CESifo - 2013

In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - CESifo - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

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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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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - CESifo - 2012

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...

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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Yen, Steven T. - CESifo - 2011

The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood and/or organ donation has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss (1970) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to...

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Mixing Bismarck and Child Pension Systems:An Optimum Taxation Approach

Fenge, Robert; Weizsäcker, Jakob von - CESifo - 2006

The labor-leisure distortion of a pay-as-you-go pension system can be reduced through a stronger tax-benefit link or Bismarck pension system. Distortions of the fertility decision can be reduced through the introduction of a stronger child-benefit or child pension system.Within our optimal...

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Pension, Fertility, and Education

Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2005

A pay-as-you-go pension scheme is associated with positive externalities of having children and providing them with human capital. In a framework with heterogeneity in productivity, and stochastic and endogenous investment in fertility and education, we discuss internalization policies...

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Increasing Longevity and Social Security Reforms

Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2006

Increasing longevity causes an upward trend in the dependency ratio in many countries. This raises concerns about the financial sustainability of social security schemes, and reform initiatives and proposals abound. It is shown that a fundamental policy choice inevitably arises since a given...

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