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Dammert, Ana C.; Mohan, Sarah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved community development and social goods. Fair Trade is also viewed as a niche market for high value...

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Have You Heard the News? How Real-Life Expectations React to Publicity

van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …

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Ranking the Schools: How Quality Information Affects School Choice in the Netherlands

Koning, Pierre; van der Wiel, Karen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high...

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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear...

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Moral Hypocrisy, Power and Social Preferences

Rustichini, Aldo; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

, norms that appear abstract and universal take into account the bargaining power of the two sides. The strong side bends the … norm in its favor and the weak side agrees: Stated fairness is a compromise with power. Second, in most situations … principles to actions is mainly the fact of individuals who behave more selfishly and who have a stronger bargaining power. The …

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Linking Individuals and Societies

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ingredients widely used in social science − population and variable. Starting with the simplest...

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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …

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Shall We Kill or Enslave Caesar? Analyzing the Caesar Model

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

paper presents a model of killing versus enslaving Caesar, based on a new theory which unifies justice, status, and power … of societies – justice-nonmaterialistic, status, and power-nonmaterialistic. Results cover members’ gains, effects of own …

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Theoretical Unification in Justice and Beyond

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

five in the unification of three fundamental sociobehavioral forces - justice, status, and power - and the subsequent …

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A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

power depend on the configuration of agreements and disagreements; (2) Independence of mind reduces wage inequality, and …

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