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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis
Fellner, Gerlinde; Iida, Yoshio; Kröger, Sabine; Seki, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about … the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution norm. If agents are aware of the heterogeneity, contributions … aware of the heterogeneity but contributions cannot be linked to types. Our results underline the importance of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868135
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New Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life Using Air Bag Regulations as a Quasi-Experiment
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252272
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Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life: New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527320
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers' decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096076
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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
economic outcomes. We exploit a unique dataset that contains a rich set of administrative information on individuals entering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884355
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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Heterogeneity in Multi-Stage Promotion Contests
Stracke, Rudi; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows that the incentive effects of heterogeneity may be positive rather than negative in dynamic contests … with multiple stages. In particular, the well-studied adverse effects of heterogeneity in static interactions are … compensated by positive continuation-value and selection effects. Due to these positive dynamic incentive effects of heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886143
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279259
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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015462
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541270
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And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
Chongvilaivan, Aekapol; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216290