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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?
Jetter, Michael; Walker, Jay K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics literature: the hot-hand and clutch-player effects. First, we find strong evidence for the hot-hand...
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279343
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Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Marklein, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999933
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763467
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592862
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Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation
Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560755
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703180
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703287
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822726
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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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