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A Gendered Approach to Temporary Labour Migration and Cultural Norms. Evidence from Romania

Prelipceanu, Raluca - HAL - 2008

% sample of the Romanian 2002 Census we try to assess the importance of the gender bias for the migration decision. The main …

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The economic analysis of social norms: A reappraisal of Hayek's legacy

Festré, Agnès; Garrouste, Pierre - HAL - 2009

This paper is organized as follows : First we show that the reference to the notion of group selection is coherent with the other parts of Hayek's thought. Second we develop the idea that recent works in terms of the emergence and evolution of social norms corroborate in part Hayek's theses in...

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Household Behavior and Social Norms : A Conjugal Contract Model

Cudeville, Elisabeth; Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2009

We present a model of household behavior to explore the complex interactions between the decision-making process within the household and social norms. The household is viewed as two separate spheres – the female and the male – both linked by a public good and a "conjugal contract" trough...

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Unemployment as a social norm in Germany

Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - HAL - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between the subjective well-being of both the employed and unemployed and regional unemployment rates. While employed men suffer from regional unemployment, unemployed men are significantly less negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm...

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Divorce decisions, divorce laws and social norms

Hiller, Victor; Recoules, Magali - HAL - 2010

This article focuses on the three way relationship between change in divorce law, evolution of divorce rate and evolution of the cultural acceptance of divorce. We consider a heterogeneous population in which individuals differ in terms of the subjective loss they suffer when divorced, this loss...

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Mixing the Carrots with the Sticks : Third Party Punishment and Reward

Nikiforakis, Nikos; Mitchell, Helen - HAL - 2014

While the opportunity to punish selfish and reward generous behavior coexist in many instances in daily life, in most laboratory studies, the demand for punishment and reward are studied separately from one another. This paper presents the results from an experiment measuring the demand for...

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The Relevance of Social Norms for Economic Efficiency: Theory and its Empirical Test

Alpman, Anil - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new formulation of the theory of social norms. The theoretical model explores the interrelation between individuals' income, time-use and consumption decisions on the one hand, and the determinants of their decision to conform or not to social norms on the other. It is...

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Earnings forecast bias - a statistical analysis

Michalon, Karine; Lardic, Sandrine; Dossou, François - HAL - 2005

well-known phenomenon, namely the existence of a positive bias in experts' anticipations: the latter tend to over …-estimate earnings. In this paper, we study the properties of this bias according to various aspects, that is to say according to country …

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Biased  Information  and  Effort

Rosaz, Julie - HAL - 2012

information at the principal's advantage, we test experimentally the principal's willingness to bias (overestimate or under …) principals do bias information, ii) agents trust the cheap-talk messages they receive and adjust their effort accordingly …

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Can earnings forecasts be improved by taking into account the forecast bias?

Dossou, François; Lardic, Sandrine; Michalon, Karine - HAL - 2008

The recent period has highlighted a well-known phenomenon, namely the existence of a positive bias in experts … contributions are twofold: we provide explanatory bias prediction models which will subsequently allow the calculation of earnings … adjusted forecasts, for horizons from 1 to 24 months. We explain the bias using macroeconomic as well as sector and firm …

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