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Political culture and discrimination in contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010

objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Assortative mating and divorce: evidence from Austrian register data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …

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What are Migration Networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice.

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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The Survival of Unique Corporate Cultures

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2016

the candidate and in the second case, executives who support the firm's culture constitute a minority of available …

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Even Education and Experience Has Its Limits: Closing the Wage Gap

Epstein, Gil S.; Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - 2014

Economic outcomes are compared for university graduates in Israel belonging to four different ethnic groups. A unique dataset is used that includes all individuals who graduated with a first degree from universities and colleges in Israel between the years 1995 and 2008 and which tracks them for...

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Lotteries vs. all-pay auctions in fair and biased contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuel - 2012

contest designer. If the contest can be unfair (structural discrimination is allowed), then the designer's payoff under the …

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ?discrimination?, whether …

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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

contest designer. If the contest can be unfair (structural discrimination is allowed), then the designer's payoff under the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271979