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Social Norms and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence on Learning about Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh
Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021
Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational attainment and higher work absenteeism. Cultural taboos and social norms surrounding menstruation may contribute to misinformation about menstrual hygiene and may also interfere...
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Cultural Taboos and Misinformation about Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh
Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2024
Every month, millions of women worldwide face challenges managing their menstrual hygiene, suffering negative impacts on their health, education, and productivity. Cultural taboos and social norms may contribute to harmful health behaviors and may also interfere with attempts to improve...
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Psychological Foundations of Incentives
Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations … effects of incentives. Economists may fail to understand the levels and the changes in behaviour if they neglect motives like … the desire to reciprocate or the desire to avoid social disapproval. We show that monetary incentives may backfire and …
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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services
Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021
We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...
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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2013
Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...
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Shipment Frequency of Exporters and Demand Uncertainty
Békés, Gabor; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Murakozy, Balazs - 2014
Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export shipments. In our inventory model, transportation costs and optimal shipment frequency are determined on the basis of demand as well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a...
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A Leverage Theory of Tying in Two-Sided Markets
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2016
-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market …
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One-off Export Events
Geishecker, Ingo; Schröder, Philipp J.H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2016
An astonishing 33% of all firm-product-destination export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports account for 17% of total foreign sales. These patterns...
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The Impact of Price Adjustment Costs on Price Dispersion in E-Commerce
Böheim, René; Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael - 2019
We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to instrument for potential endogeneity that might result from the selection of firms to certain product markets. We find that greater price adjustment costs result in greater price...
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Attention-driven demand for bonus contracts
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Köster, Mats; Peiseler, Florian - 2019
In many markets supply contracts include a series of small, regular payments made by consumers and a single, large bonus that consumers receive at some point during the contractual period. But, if for instance its production costs exceed its value to consumers, such a bonus creates...
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