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Effort and Comparison Income : Survey and Experimental Evidence
Clark, Andrew; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006
This paper combines ISSP survey data and experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game to determine the effect of status or relative income on work effort. We find a strong effect of others' incomes on individual effort decisions in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790979
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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission
Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012
We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933827
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Preferences for redistribution : an empirical analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2011
People's preferences for state intervention in social policies vary. A cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data is conducted here to highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand for redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605322
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Trends in social mobility in Romania since the Middle of the Twentieth Century. Economical change as an explicative factor of the social mobility.
Ionas, Liliana - HAL - 2008
One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the mid-twenty century is the occupational change due to the modifications produced in the economic sectors. The pattern of upward social mobility can change because the parents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899241
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784107
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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850
Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738834
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738889
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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 … task and opinions before assigning unequal payoffs. In the Ingratiation treatment, workers can change their opinion after … learning that held by the manager. In the Random treatment, workers can also change opinion but payoffs are assigned randomly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929091