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Insidious Discrimination? Disentangling the Beauty Premium on a Game Show
Belot, Michèle; Bhaskar, Venkataraman; Van de Ven, Jeroen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper analyzes behaviour on a TV game show where players' monetary payoffs depend upon an array of factors, including ability in answering questions, perceived cooperativeness and the willingness of other players to choose them. We find a substantial beauty premium and are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124048
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Competition, Equity and Quality in HealthCare
Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an effective way to increase the quality signal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083309
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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
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123605
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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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The effect of audit regimes on applications for long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effects of various audit regimes, differing in the degree of control and the presence of …. Finally, we find detrimental effects on audit approval rates, but we provide some results showing that assessors are less …
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Audit rates and compliance: A field experiment in long-term care
Lindeboom, Maarten; van der Klaauw, Bas; Vriend, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide evidence from a large-scale field experiment on the causal effects of audit rules on compliance in a market …-post auditing. Our results do not show significant effects of variations in random audit rates and switching to a conditional audit … care providers differing in size or hospital status. Our preferred explanation for the lack of audit effects is the absence …
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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants’ identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that...
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behaviour
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792054
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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