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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison of Census-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Mistiaen, Johan Andre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international … survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys … likely to congregate. We analyze how closely well-designed snowball and intercept point surveys can approach the much more …
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Loss Aversion in the Laboratory
Morrison, William G.; Oxoby, Robert J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We report the results of a laboratory experiment testing for the existence of loss aversion in a standard risk aversion … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We find loss aversion, distinct from risk aversion, has a significant effect on … behavior resulting in participants requiring higher compensation to bear risk. …
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Using Cognitive Dissonance to Manipulate Social Preferences
Oxoby, Robert J.; Smith, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the role of cognitive dissonance in dictator and public goods games. Specifically, we motivate cognitive dissonance between one's perception of “fair treatment” and self-interested behaviour by having participants answer a question about fairness. Utilizing two manipulations...
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An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
Hizen, Yoichi; Kawata, Keisuke; Sasaki, Masaru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, Anderson, and Vroman (2010) (AAV). We find that, compared with single-agent search, the search...
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Can Contracts Signal Social Norms? Experimental Evidence
Danilov, Anastasia; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
mechanism's robustness is explored in further experiments. …
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program
Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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From Micro Data to Causality: Forty Years of Empirical Labor Economics
van der Klaauw, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...
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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
usefulness of the approach in the context of field experiments on gift exchange. Our results suggest that a BS design requires …
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
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