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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence

Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...

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Rational Students and Resit Exams

Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare rational student behavior in the case of only one exam opportunity versus the case of two...

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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso

Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show …, collective rationality within monogamous households is not rejected. Using our proposed test procedure, collective rationality is … however rejected for monogamous households. Furthermore, our test also rejects collective rationality for bigamous households …

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

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Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals

Maciejovsky, Boris; Sutter, Matthias; Budescu, David V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We reformulated the task in terms of "assets" in a market context. Teams of traders learn the task’s...

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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance

Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …

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Incentives and Group Identity

Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...

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Moonlighting Politicians: Motivation Matters!

Fedele, Alessandro; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we study optimal choices of self-selection into politics and commitment once in office on the part of citizens with heterogeneous abilities and heterogeneous motivations. Politicians can moonlight, i.e., they can work in the market sector while appointed in parliament. Our...

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Laws and Norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...

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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study

Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …

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