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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703686
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East Germany experienced a very large, but temporary, drop in birth rates mostly driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959787
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
Crosetto, Paolo; Filippin, Antonio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274368
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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Lefèbvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527318
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Can We Measure Individual Risk Attitudes in a Survey?
Ding, Xiaohao; Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562543
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Parental Health and Child Schooling
Bratti, Massimiliano; Mendola, Mariapia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216295
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The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
teacher and student absences, school closures, and disturbances to usual classroom routines. Similarly, they might also … to the attacks. The main results indicate that the attacks significantly reduced school-level proficiency rates in … grade math proficiency, suggesting that the shootings caused a decline in school proficiency rates of about five to nine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228300
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Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this chapter we propose a new, dual-process model of labor supply, which incorporates both cognitive and affective aspects of decision-making. Consistent with evidence from neuroscience, the worker may experience conflicting cognitive and affective motivations during the workday. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763926
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886141
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
– personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279310