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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
' experiment through which to study the rationality of expectations. Our results show that East Germans significantly over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233883
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823004
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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials
Askenazy, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959657
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The Effect of Communication Channels on Promise-Making and Promise-Keeping
Conrads, Julian; Reggiani, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of different communication channels on promise-making and promise-keeping in a helping situation. Four treatments differ with respect to the communication channel employed to solicit unincentivized cooperation, i.e., face-to-face, phone call and two different...
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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We show that temporally distancing the decision task from the payment of the reward increases honest behavior. Each of 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the outcome to the unit's cadet coordinator. For every point...
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Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France
Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
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Happiness and Productivity
Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some … the robustness and lasting nature of this kind of effect, a complementary Experiment 2 is designed. In this, major real …-world unhappiness shocks – bereavement and family illness – are studied. The findings from (real-life) Experiment 2 match those from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550014
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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their children. Yet there has been almost no formal research into the important issue of how recent...
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