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Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics
Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278194
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Criminalization of Homosexuality and Sex Ratios
Chang, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Sexual activities between consenting adults of the same sex are still criminalized in more than one third of the countries in the world despite a global wave of decriminalization in the past sixty years. This paper empirically investigates the effect of sex ratios, i.e. relative number of men to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156465
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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884344
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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health
Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper explores the determinants of individuals’ psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761819
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Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators’ punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703785
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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our findings show that higher education leads to a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195832
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Effect of Perceptions and Behaviour on Access to and Use of Financial Service: Evidence from South Africa
Annim, Samuel; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Kostov, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This study investigates the effect of financial perception and behaviour on; (a) general accounts and services, (b … three estimations support the hypothesis that financial perception has a greater effect on the decision to access and use … behaviour is greater than financial perception when making decisions on the take-up and use of investment financial services. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766375
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Usage of Financial Services in South Africa: Perceptions Matter
Kostov, Philip; Arun, Thankom Gopinath; Annim, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
specification to examine the effect of financial perception. Our results suggests that after controlling for endogeneity of choices … of financial perception however reduces and gradually disappears as one moves up the financial access ladder towards more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010766378
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Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data
Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078406
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Eingeschränkt rationales Verhalten: Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Marklein, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die Präzision ökonomischer Prognosen und die Qualität politischer Handlungsempfehlungen hängen in entscheidendem Ausmaß von der Qualität des zugrunde liegenden Verhaltensmodells ab. Nur ein empirisch gut fundiertes Modell ökonomischen Handelns erlaubt es, die Konsequenzen politischer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615417