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The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
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How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust …
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experiment that regularly produces valuation bubble and crash events. Global sessions involved real time trades between subjects …
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of other groups should be less effective. However, reciprocity theory suggests that highlighting pro-social behavior by … experiment in Kenya, Australia, the United States, the Philippines, and South Africa. The findings show that the descriptive … theory. The findings suggest that tax agencies may increase tax compliance by visibly tackling tax avoidance among groups …
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Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly understood. Experimental methods can isolate systematic deviations from an asset's fundamental value in a...
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This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
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