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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro … panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and … learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a difference-in-difference estimator and it is shown that the results are …
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of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and aggregate empirical specifications. We gradually introduce static effects, dynamic effects, and...
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experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet …
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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' experiment through which to study the rationality of expectations. Our results show that East Germans significantly over …
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We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an approach that works for any utility function when the parameter and noise are normally distributed...
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time spent in the urban environment (and thus learning), or job changes. The evidence suggests that both these processes …
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Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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