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Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?
Berg, Erlend; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Manjula, R; Rajasekhar, D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
dealing with one social group relative to another. In a randomised field experiment undertaken across 151 villages in South …
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067556
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Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Greg; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
randomized trials test the impact of financial training on firm-level and individual outcomes for microentrepreneurs in the … Dominican Republic. We find no significant effect from a standard, fundamentals-based accounting training. However, a simplified …, rule-of-thumb training produced significant and economically meaningful improvements in business practices and outcomes. …
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Non-cognitive skill formation in poor neighbourhoods of urban India
Krishnan, Pramila; Krutikova, Sofya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Recent labour market research has shown that a good education comprises investment in both cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We examine the impact of a long-term programme designed to raise non-cognitive skills of children and adolescents in slums in Bombay. We use a cross-cutting design with...
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083423
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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?
Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666531
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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective
Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...
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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of their family backgrounds and invest substantially in their...
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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total...
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