Showing 1 - 10 of 39
There is increasing interest in neighborhood or area effects on health and individual development. China, due to its … vast regional variations in health infrastructure and geography and relative immobility of older residents, provides a rare … opportunity to study such effects. Utilizing China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) baseline survey 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691508
identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884157
theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted … between different fairness principles. Fairness theories that are based on the assumption that players compare their own … the defectors. Fairness theories assuming that players aim to minimize payoff inequalities cannot explain the fact that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703785
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … period 1989-2006. We also find that the urban–rural health and nutritional disparities have been declining significantly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279294
of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761632
Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128028
Players cooperate in experiments more than game theory would predict. In order to explain this, we introduce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558691
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants choose between an individual compensation scheme and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323383
altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in Turkey at different points in time; one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369116
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466474