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Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity
van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
As evidence is accumulating that subjective expectations influence behavior and that these expectations are sometimes biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to affect how people picture the future. This paper...
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …
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Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik; Rosholm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the …
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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea
Carneiro, Pedro; Locatelli, Andrea; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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Ambiguity on Audits and Cooperation in a Public Goods Game
Dai, Zhixin; Hogarth, Robin M.; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
update their beliefs about the probability of being audited, both before and after audits are definitely withdrawn. We find … that when individuals have initially experienced systematic audits, they decrease both their beliefs and their … irregular, they maintain high beliefs about the probability of being audited and continue cooperating long after audits have …
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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and treat correlated information as independent. In consequence, people's beliefs are excessively sensitive to well …-connected information sources, implying a pattern of "overshooting" beliefs. Additionally, in an experimental asset market, correlation …
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Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored rehabilitation, training and job practice, and a generous, stable, and non-means-tested benefit. Its main aims...
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Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Juarez, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más – a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey and a triple difference approach, we find that...
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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Based on individual longitudinal data, we examine the evolution of employment and earnings of post‐EU accession Eastern European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly vulnerable to the negative labour demand shock...
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