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Eating disorders affect 12-25% of college women. Previous research established a positive correlation between sorority membership and eating disorders. We investigate a possible causal link between sororities and weight-related behaviors and eating disorders using data from the American College...
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We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we know to be friends. Other groups exclusively consist of students that we know not to be friends, and that are mere classmates. We find that ‘friends’ contribute more to the...
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In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...
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-being by analyzing the frequency with which specific emotions are experienced in anticipation of and reaction to job loss … unemployed leads to more frequent experiences of unpleasant emotions only in the short run and that adaptation occurs more …
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We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with … the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the interplay of emotions and incentives is … identify certain conditions under which emotions lead to additional incentives and under which the employer benefits from …
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puzzle. In this paper, we investigate the role of emotions as a possible explanation of tax compliance. Our laboratory … perspective of punishment after an audit, especially when the pictures of the evaders are publicly displayed, also raises emotions …
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reduction in pay, we argue that the reaction of workers is dominated by emotions. On the other hand, an increase in the nominal … producing a more measured response. We present evidence from experiments showing that self-reported emotions respond strongly to … inflation rate. Although emotions may benefit individual workers, by strengthening their bargaining position and preventing wage …
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This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of competition does neither increase efficiency nor does it yield any gains in earnings for the...
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The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do not. Treated subjects have 12% greater productivity in a paid piece-rate Niederle-Vesterlund...
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cooperators relieve negative emotions when they punish free riders. In response, the free-riders experience negative emotions when …
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