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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings

Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …

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Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who faces two tasks, may bracket his goals narrowly for motivational reasons. Goals motivate because...

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Identification Problems in Personality Psychology

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by …

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Groupthink: Collective Delusions in Organizations and Markets

Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates collective denial and willful blindness in groups, organizations and markets. Agents with anticipatory preferences, linked through an interaction structure, choose how to interpret and recall public signals about future prospects. Wishful thinking (denial of bad news) is...

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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 for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...

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Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations: The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct evidence...

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Self-Regulation through Goal Setting

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points …

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Ideology

Benabou, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

I develop a model of ideologies as collectively sustained (yet individually rational) distortions in beliefs concerning the proper scope of governments versus markets. In processing and interpreting signals of the efficacy of public and market provision of education, health insurance, pensions,...

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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age …

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In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China

Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

increasing the women's bargaining power alters household expenditure patterns. Second, whether households allocate fewer … resources to daughters than to sons. Third, whether increasing the bargaining power of women reduces pro-boy discrimination. We … find that expenditure patterns do vary with proxies for women's bargaining power. Pro-boy discrimination is suggested by …

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