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The theory of compensating differentials has proven difficult to test with observational data: the consequences of …. Instead, we construct experimental, real-effort labor markets and offer an evaluation of the theory in a controlled setting … differentials are affected by worker mobility and therefore selection. Consistent with the theory, we find that riskier firms must …
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities … predicted by the prospect theory. But under high stakes, we provide some evidence that risk seeking behavior is dramatically …
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children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
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We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
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This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
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We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
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We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
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Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show … that include more than two decision-makers (e.g., polygamous households, adult children). We investigate household … consumption decision-making within monogamous and bigamous households in Burkina Faso. Using the standard testing approach …
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