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migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 …
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As predicted by loss aversion, numerous studies find that penalties elicit greater effort than bonuses, even when the underlying payoffs are identical. However, loss aversion also predicts that workers will demand higher wages to accept penalty contracts. In six experiments I recruited workers...
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We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local … Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and … untreated outcomes, but also to assess the magnitude of the selection effect. The tests are quite simple; undergraduates after …
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We present supportive empirical evidence and a new theoretical explanation for the negative selection into planned …
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to Swedish register data, suggests that intergenerational schooling associations are largely driven by selection …
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suggests that self-selection of more prosocial students into experiments is not a major issue. Our second study compares …
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of trust into the financial industry may stem from the selection of subjects with little, if any, trustworthiness into …
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firms shows that trade leads to between-firm reallocations and selection: it shifts employment towards firms with the best …
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investigating migrant selection can lead to misleading conclusions about the underlying economic incentives and behavioural models …
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This study investigates hospitals' dynamic incentives to select patients when hospitals are remunerated according to a prospective payment system of the DRG type. Given that prices typically reflect past average costs, we use a discrete-time dynamic framework. Patients differ in severity within...
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