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Estimating the Impacts of Bolivia's Protected Areas on Poverty

Bacarreza, Canavire; Javier, Gustavo; Hanauer, Merlin M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Protected areas represent a powerful policy tool for the preservation of ecosystems and their services. The rapid proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on surrounding populations. Recent studies from other...

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Econometric Causality

Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper presents the econometric approach to causal modeling. It is motivated by policy problems. New causal parameters are defined and identified to address specific policy problems. Economists embrace a scientific approach to causality and model the preferences and choices of agents to...

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Cross Sections Are History

Easterlin, Richard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

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History of Historical Statistics of the United States

Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in 1949 as a time-series supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, it has inspired similar...

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When Banana Import Restrictions Lead to Exports: A Tale of Cyclones and Quarantine Policies

Ko, Chia Chiun; Frijters, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines the welfare loss of import restrictions on bananas in Australia and whether the import restrictions have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with banana producers accepting losses in normal years, off-set...

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario "vibrant." It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...

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Turf Wars

Herrera, Helios; Reuben, Ernesto; Ting, Michael M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Turf wars commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model … joint production but introduces competition for the reward. We find that collaboration has a non-monotonic relationship with …

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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom

Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of grade incentives in increasing student performance. We perform a direct comparison of the two most...

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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?

Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...

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Information and Competition Entry

Ewers, Mara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject loses the competition because the opponent holds a higher …

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