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The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion

Weinhold, Diana; Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005

Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms. However there has been little study of the relative importance of these two channels in how individuals choose between simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a...

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The …, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes. Higher homicide rates on the Mexican side seem to result from deficient … opportunistic clustering of criminal activity in Mexican cities, while no clustering is found on the American side. Crime also …

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Commons, anti-commons, corruption and 'maffia' behavior

Canavese, Alfredo - EconWPA - 2004

The particular point that will be stressed in this paper is that benefits derived from corrupt behaviour depend on institutions devised to discourage it. The analytical framework used to explore the symmetric tragedies of the commons and the anticommons outlined by James Buchaman and Yong J....

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Social ties within school classes –- the roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Kooreman, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we identify the lines along which social ties between high school teenagers are primarily formed. To this end, we introduce interaction weights between pupils in the same school class that are a function of exogenous individual background characteristics, like gender, ethnicity,...

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Resolving the Identification Problem in Linear Social Interactions Models: Modeling with Between-Group Spillovers

Cohen-Cole, Ethan - EconWPA - 2005

The linear-in-means model has been a theoretical and empirical workhorse of the social interactions field. As was noted by Manski (1993), the collinearity between group-level 'contextual' and 'endogenous' effects leads to an inability to identify the structural parameters of this model. Manski...

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Simulation-based estimation of peer effects

Krauth, Brian - EconWPA - 2004

The influence of peer behavior on an individual's choices has received renewed interest in recent years. However, accurate measures of this influence are difficult to obtain. Standard reduced-form methods lead to upwardly biased estimates due to simultaneity, common shocks, and nonrandom peer...

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On the Measurement of Segregation

Echenique, Federico; Roland G. Fryer Jr. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to the level of individuals, and (2) an individual is more segregated the more segregated are the agents with whom she interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any...

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Sorting and inequality in Canadian schools

Friesen, Jane; Krauth, Brian - EconWPA - 2004

Researchers and educators often argue that a student's peers strongly influence his or her educational outcomes. If so, an unequal distribution of advantaged and disadvantaged students across schools in a community will leave many students doubly disadvantaged and amplify existing inequalities....

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Social relations and economic welfare at an individual level

Antoni, Giacomo Degli - EconWPA - 2005

Over the last few years, many studies have shown that social networks are important to the economic progress and the development of societies. In order to explain the determinants of social network formation, it is important to understand the motivations characterising the decisions of single...

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Peer and selection effects on youth smoking in California

Krauth, Brian - EconWPA - 2004

A number of studies have indicated that peer smoking is a highly influential factor in a young person's decision to smoke. However, these results are suspect because the studies often fail to account for selection and simultaneity bias. This paper develops an econometric model of youth smoking...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561537

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