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Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater productivity in a paid piece-rate Niederle-Vesterlund...

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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach

Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent...

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Eliciting Motives for Trust and Reciprocity by Attitudinal and Behavioural Measures

Farina, Francesco; O'Higgins, Niall; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two …

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Community Effects on Elderly Health: Evidence from CHARLS National Baseline

Smith, James P.; Tian, Meng; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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 …

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Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets

Roe, Brian E.; Wu, Steven Y. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Experimental studies have consistently shown that cooperative outcomes can emerge even in finitely repeated games. Such outcomes are justified by existing reputation building models, which suggest that cooperative outcomes can be sustained if some subjects have other-regarding preferences. While...

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?

Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...

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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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 …

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Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...

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Stability of Time Preferences

Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

, time preferences are elicited using incentivized choice experiments. The aggregate distributions of discount factors and …

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