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What do field experiments of discrimination in markets tell us? : a meta analysis of studies conducted since 2000
Rich, Judy - 2014
made no significant improvement to minority applicant outcomes. Clear evidence of statistical discrimination was found only …Sixty-seven field experiments of discrimination in markets conducted since 2000 across seventeen countries were … surveyed. Significant and persistent discrimination was found on all bases in all markets. High levels of discrimination were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418863
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Using survey questions to measure preferences : lessons from an experimental validation in Kenya
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Miguel, Edward - 2019
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …
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Perceptions and practices of replication by social and behavioral scientists : making replications a mandatory element of curricula would be useful
Fecher, Benedikt; Fräßdorf, Mathis; Wagner, Gert G. - 2016
sciences. Our analyses are based on a survey of almost 300 researchers that use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458085
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Family finances and debt overhang : evolving consumption patterns of Spanish households
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2022
This paper studies the direct impact of households' debt on consumption over the business cycle. We use household-level panel data for Spain, and focus on a interesting period of analysis, 2002-2017, characterized by large variations in leverage, consumption, and asset prices. We find that debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184105
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Job search during a pandemic recession: survey evidence from the Netherlands
Balgova, Maria; Trenkle, Simon; Zimpelmann, Christian; … - 2021
Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486385
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Economic behavior of children and adolescents : a first survey of experimental economics results
Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2018
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
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Evidence on job search models from a survey of unemployed workers in Germany
Della Vigna, Stefano; Heining, Jörg; Schmieder, Johannes; … - 2020
-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207491
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Reported MPC in the presence of debt
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2021
We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491604
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A Principal-Agent Theory Approach to Public Expenditure Management Systems in Developing Countries
Leruth, Luc E.; Paul, Elisabeth - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
A well-functioning public expenditure management (PEM) system is considered a critical pillar of government efficiency, on par with a low-distortion tax system and efficient tax administration. The paper discusses PEM systems in developing countries using an analytical framework based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248131
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PPP Strikes Back; Aggregation and the Real Exchange Rate
Mumtaz, Haroon; Imbs, Jean; Ravn, Morten O.; Rey, Helene - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
We show the importance of a dynamic aggregation bias in accounting for the PPP puzzle. We prove that established time-series and panel methods substantially exaggerate the persistence of real exchange rates because of heterogeneity in the dynamics of disaggregated relative prices. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248142