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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show …, collective rationality within monogamous households is not rejected. Using our proposed test procedure, collective rationality is … however rejected for monogamous households. Furthermore, our test also rejects collective rationality for bigamous households …
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Rational Students and Resit Exams
Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...
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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis
Nottmeyer, Olga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532120
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Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris; Sutter, Matthias; Budescu, David V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual … specific, performance feedback. Some teams even perform better than the best individuals. The experience of team decision … tasks, implying that team experiences enhance individual problem-solving skills. …
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171
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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …
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