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Individual and couple decision behavior under risk: Evidence on the dynamics of power balance

Palma, André De; Picard, Nathalie; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - HAL - 2009

risky decisions made separately by each spouse. We estimate both the spouses and the couples' degrees of risk aversion, we … assess how the risk preferences of the two spouses aggregate when they make risky decisions and we shed light on the dynamics …

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Observatorio turístico del Perú: aproximación a la realidad del turismo rural comunitario

López, Ignacio Sariego - HAL - 2013

El turismo está experimentando fuertes transformaciones en las últimas décadas. Las posibilidades turísticas se están ampliando progresivamente y, junto a los destinos tradicionales, plenamente consolidados, se abren paso nuevas opciones de disfrute vacacional en las áreas rurales y...

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Effort and comparison income: Survey and experimental evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; 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...

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To vote or to abstain? An experimental study or first past the poste and PR elections

Blais, André; Pilet, Jean-Benoît; Straeten, Karine Van Der - HAL - 2011

We examine through an experimental design how rational and non-rational considerations affect the decision to vote or to abstain in First Past the Post and PR elections. We show that in both types of elections, but particularly so under PR, a majority of subjects do not make the "right"...

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Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment

Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2012

This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers' performance to the experimenter. The report is non veriﬁable and determines the earnings of both the supervisor and the worker. We ﬁnd that not all the...

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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - HAL - 2011

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … decide on wether reporting their income or not, knowing the risk od detection. The results show that (i) individuals evade …

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Cooperation in a Game of Chicken with Heterogeneous Agents: An Experimental Study

Cabon-Dhersin, Marie-Laure; Etchart-Vincent, Nathalie - HAL - 2008

Using a two-stage Game of Chicken, Cabon-Dhersin and Ramani (2007) examine the impact of population heterogeneity on cooperative behaviour. For that purpose, they introduce two different types of agents, namely those who always cooperate and those who strategically cooperate. The aim of the...

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An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience

Cohen, Michèle; Tallon, Jean-Marc; Vergnaud, … - HAL - 2009

We report in this paper the result of three experiments on risk, ambiguity and time attitude. The first two differed by … elicitation of risk, time and ambiguity attitudes and the relationship among these (model free) measures. We find that on the … cautions manner in the risk and ambiguity domain. When we drop this population from the sample, the correlation between our …

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An experimental investigation of imprecision attitude and its relation with risk attitude and impatience

Cohen, Michèle; Tallon, Jean-Marc; Vergnaud, … - HAL - 2011

We report in this paper the result of three experiments on risk, ambiguity and time attitude. The first two differed by … elicitation of risk, time and ambiguity attitudes and the relationship among these (model free) measures. We find that on the … cautious manner in the risk and ambiguity domain. When we drop this population from the sample, the correlation between our …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603647

Discrimination based on place of residence and access to employment

Bunel, Mathieu; Jones, Emilia Ene; L'Horty, Yannick; … - HAL - 2013

The purpose of this study is to assess the degree of employment discrimination against young people in the Ile-de-France region according to their place of residence by considering several spatial scales in order to measure the effect of the reputation of the administrative department or county...

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