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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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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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Comparing Inequality Aversion across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country … margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution … supply elasticities across countries. However, this changes the cross-country ranking in inequality aversion compared to …

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …

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Social Interactions in the Labor Market

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...

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Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

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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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Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers

Farber, Henry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In a seminal paper, Camerer, Babcock, Loewenstein, and Thaler (1997) find that the wage elasticity of daily hours of work New York City (NYC) taxi drivers is negative and conclude that their labor supply behavior is consistent with target earning (having reference dependent preferences). I...

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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...

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Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Gong, Erick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well-identified estimates of exactly how much harder they will work have been elusive, however, because agents select into jobs. We conduct a real effort experiment with participants who...

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