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Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility
Melki, Mickael; Rapoport, Hillel; Spolaore, Enrico; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We argue that migrants played a significant role in the diffusion of the demographic transition from France to the rest … 1930, we find that higher immigration to France translated into lower fertility in the region of origin after a few decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072931
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Trust, Values and False Consensus
Butler, Jeffrey - 2012
one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that … the values parents transmit to their children during their upbringing. In a second closely-related experiment, we show the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460200
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Material Incentives and Effort Choice : Evidence from an Online Experiment Across Countries
Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from … by conditional reciprocity or by intrinsic motivation. Subjects from India and Africa are more likely to follow intrinsic … motivation and they provide high effort more often. US subjects are more likely to follow self-interest and reach a less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362026
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Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching
Rees-Jones, Alex - 2020
experiment presenting simple and incentivized school-choice scenarios, we find that subjects tend to follow optimal application …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479258
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Ambiguity Attitudes about Investments : Evidence from the Field
Anantanasuwong, Kanin - 2019
Using an incentivized survey and a representative sample of investors, we elicit ambiguity attitudes toward a familiar company stock, a local stock index, a foreign stock index, and a crypto currency. We separately estimate ambiguity aversion (ambiguity preferences) and perceived ambiguity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479515
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Intertemporal Choice
Ericson, Keith Marzilli - 2018
Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose new questions for research. The focus for intertemporal choice research is no longer whether the exponential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481007
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What Comes to Mind
Gennaioli, Nicola - 2009
We present a model of judgment under uncertainty, in which an agent combines data received from the external world with information retrieved from memory to evaluate a hypothesis. We focus on what comes to mind immediately, as the agent makes quick, intuitive evaluations. Because the automatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463565
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Social Identity and Preferences
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2007
Social identities prescribe behaviors for people. We identify the marginal behavioral effect of these norms on discount rates and risk aversion by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient. When we make ethnic identity salient to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465341
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Are Two Heads Better Than One? : An Experimental Analysis of Group vs. Individual Decisionmaking
Blinder, Alan S. - 2000
Two laboratory experiments - one a statistical urn problem, the other a monetary policy experiment - were run to test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470828
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A Theory of Experimenters
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2017
This paper proposes a decision-theoretic framework for experiment design. We model experimenters as ambiguity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453845