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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field
Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent's campaign but to...
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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products
Cawley, John; Avery, Rosemary; Eisenberg, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding
Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...
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Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion
Johnson, Eric J.; Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the relative impact of losses and gains: (1) It could be a constant, such as the much cited value of 2,...
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
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What Are Over-the-Road Truckers Paid For? Evidence from an Exogenous Regulatory Change on the Role of Social Comparisons and Work Organization in Wage Determination
Burks, Stephen V.; Guy, Frederick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage … LTL companies paid more than those for TL companies, but in LTL the union earnings premium was maintained following … models based on independent utilities; sharing of product market rents; equity concerns resulting from social comparisons …
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Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair
Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort … that adherence to the norm of equity is a necessary prerequisite for successful establishment of gift-exchange relations. …
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