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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy

Anderson, Soren T. - 2013

We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …, or it could result from correlation in family characteristics that determine brand choice. We present a variety of …

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Intangible Marketing Capital

Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments … include the creation and maintenance of a brand name and all its corresponding brand elements (e.g., awareness, reputation … outlays. Finally, we explore the welfare implications of investments in brand capital …

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Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the "experiment" of German separation and...

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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Park, David Sungho; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys due to a variety of social and psychological factors. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via...

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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2008

Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...

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The Social Multiplier

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002

In many cases, aggregate data is used to make inferences about individual level behavior. If there are social interactions in which one person's actions influence his neighbor's incentives or information, then these inferences are inappropriate. The presence of positive social interactions, or...

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Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research : Overview and Best Practices

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2016

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has developed methods for using these data to: measure...

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