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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
Cuffe, Harold E.; Harbaugh, William T.; Lindo, Jason M.; … - HAL - 2011
We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401099
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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2013
We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739020
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784106
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. It is selected after careful consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738882
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Effect of Uncertainty about Others' Rationality in Experimental Asset Markets: An Experimental Analysis
Akiyama, Eizo; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Ishikawa, Ryuichiro - HAL - 2012
We investigate the extent to which price deviations from fundamental values in an experimental asset market are due to the uncertainty of subjects regarding others' rationality. We do so by comparing the price forecasts submitted by subjects in two market environments: (a) all six traders are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933826
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It is Not Just Confusion! Strategic Uncertainty in an Experimental Asset Market
Akiyama, Eizo; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Ishikawa, Ryuichiro - HAL - 2013
To what extent is the observed mis-pricing in experimental asset markets caused by strategic uncertainty (SU) and by individual bounded rationality (IBR)? We address this question by comparing subjects initial price forecasts in two market environments - one with six human traders, and the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933940
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - HAL - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers' performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929091
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Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1)
Chanel, Olivier; Luchini, Stephane; Massoni, Sébastien; … - HAL - 2010
Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern democracies, governments need to convince their populations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930176
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Social- and Self-Image Concerns in Fair-Trade Consumption: Evidence from Experimental Auctions for Chocolate
Teyssier, Sabrina; Etilé, Fabrice; Combris, Pierre - HAL - 2012
-image concerns (when everybody sees everyone else). A laboratory experiment is designed to identify separately these concerns, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930214
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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2012
-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. We show that leading by making generous contributions is widespread and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541081