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Agency, Gender, and Endowments Effects in the Efficiency and Equity of Team Allocation Decisions

Fafchamps, Marcel; Kebede, Bereket - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We conduct a novel lab experiment in which pairs of subjects make separable decisions about allocative efficiency and equity in different agency structures. In terms of equity, subjects appropriate all surplus when they can, and share equally when they have to negotiate. They achieve high...

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The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

We investigate the historical origins of mistrust within Africa. Combining contemporary household survey data with historic data on slave shipments, we show that individuals whose ancestors were heavily raided during the slave trade today exhibit less trust in neighbors, relatives, and their...

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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

Falk, Armin - 2017

Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative …

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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis

Gruber, Jonathan - 2000

implications of risky behaviors by youths. I begin by reviewing perspectives on youth risk-taking from traditional rational … risk-taking by youths, and how this compares to adults. I review the evidence on youth risk taking from the studies in this … risk taking by youths, (b) despite this, these factors are not very successful in predicting the dramatic time series …

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From Infant to Mother : Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health

Almond, Douglas - 2011

This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the time she delivers her own infant. Our results suggest that exposure to disease in early childhood significantly increases the incidence of diabetes in the population of future...

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Tail Risk in Production Networks

Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

shock to the sector - a measure of the systemic risk of each sector. Tail centrality is theoretically and empirically very … downstream closeness to final production. The paper then uses the results to analyze the determinants of total tail risk in the … economy to small shocks while increasing the sensitivity to large shocks. Tail risk is strongest in economies that display …

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Fraternity Membership and Drinking Behavior

DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of fraternity and sorority membership on a wide array of drinking outcomes among respondents to four Harvard College Alcohol Study surveys from 1993-2001. Identification is achieved by including proxies for specific types of unobserved heterogeneity expected to...

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Fraternity Membership and Binge Drinking

DeSimone, Jeffrey S. - 2006

18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior …

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A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2006

This paper develops a model of social interactions and endogenous poverty traps. The key idea is captured in a framework in which the likelihood of future social interactions with members of one's group is partly determined by group-specific investments made by individuals. I prove three main...

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The Influence of Peer Genotypes and Behavior on Smoking Outcomes : Evidence from Add Health

Sotoudeh, Ramina - 2017

relationship between peer genotypes and ego smoking and find that the impact of peers' genetic risk for smoking on ego's smoking …

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