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Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model
Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, complete segregation is observed almost all of the time. A concept of tipping is rigorously defined,...
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Gender Differences in Cooperation: Experimental Evidence on High School Students
Molina, José Alberto; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Charles Darwin (1874) stated that "women are less selfish but men are more competitive". Very recent papers (Eckel & Grossman, 1998, 2001 or Andreoni and Vesterlund 2001, among others) have shown the relevance of gender in altruism in both ultimatum and dictator games. In this paper we analyze...
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Courtesy and Idleness: Gender Differences in Team Work and Team Competition
Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kübler, Dorothea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Does gender play a role in the context of team work? Our results based on a real-effort experiment suggest that performance depends on the composition of the team. We find that female and male performance differ most in mixed teams with revenue sharing between the team members, as men put in...
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Rule of Law, Institutional Quality and Information
Bruno, Randolph Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The focus of this paper is the analysis of the persistent lawlessness attitude observed in some transition and developing countries where an overall increase in the quality of institutions is recorded. The mechanism of information diffusion on institutional quality is explored using a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703508
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Chicken or Checkin'? Rational Learning in Repeated Chess Games
Gerdes, Christer; Gränsmark, Patrik; Rosholm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine rational learning among expert chess players and how they update their beliefs in repeated games with the same opponent. We present a model that explains how equilibrium play is affected when players change their choice of strategy when receiving additional information from each...
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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562538
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of overconfidence, and preferences for competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these...
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Parenthood and Risk Preferences
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Cameron, Lisa A.; Shah, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study whether natural disasters affect risk-taking behavior exploiting geographic variation in exposure to natural disasters. We conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in Indonesia and find that individuals who recently suffered a flood or earthquake...
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