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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

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Social Networks

de Martí, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...

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Dynamics of Intrahousehold Bargaining

Andaluz, Joaquín; Marcén, Miriam; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper studies the dynamics of bargaining in an intrahousehold context. To explore long-term partner relationships, we analyse bilateral bargaining by considering that spouses take decisions sequentially. We conclude that a greater valuation of the present, rather than the future, for the...

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On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?

Mancini, Anna Laura; Monfardini, Chiara; Pasqua, Silvia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

imitation effect: in the day of the survey children are more likely to read after they saw either the mother or the father …

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Traits, Imitation, and Evolutionary Dynamics

Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In this article, a modelling framework for the information transmission between agents in an evolutionary game setting is proposed. Agents observe traits which reflect past and present behaviour and success of other agents. If agents imitate more successful agents based on these traits, the...

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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Fort, Margherita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited a priori information. The econometrics hinges on a...

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Obesity, Unhappiness, and The Challenge of Affluence: Theory and Evidence

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

that longitudinal data on BMI are needed. We suggest a theory of imitation - where utility depends on relative weight - in …

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Modes of Spousal Interaction and the Labor Market Environment

Boca, Daniela Del; Flinn, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We formulate a model of household behavior in which cooperation is costly and in which these costs vary across … the costly cooperation model significantly outperforms a noncooperative model. This suggests the possibility of attaining …

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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma

Proto, Eugenio; Rustichini, Aldo; Sofianos, Andis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

initial cooperation rates are similar, it increases in the groups with higher intelligence to reach almost full cooperation … differences in the response to past cooperation of the partner. In higher intelligence subjects, cooperation after the initial … difference is absent. Cooperation of higher intelligence subjects is payoff sensitive, thus not automatic: in a treatment with …

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