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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the … empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762357
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Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention
Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547892
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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … of households in response to price changes in most years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024603
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763499
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A Dynamic Model of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Ireland
Finn, Claire; Harmon, Colm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
as a function of individual and household characteristics using panel data analysis and compares three alternate … approaches; a static, chamberlain-mundlak and dynamic specification. Using panel data from 1994 to 2000, we consider whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703221
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514856
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884177
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
Maggian, Valeria; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased use of deception to benefit others. In a sample of children aged between 7 and 14, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884178
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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