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The role of stigma in the design of welfare programs

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sadka, Efraim - 2008

We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants by society when they are perceived as undeserving in the sense that they falsely claim to be eligible for welfare benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma...

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Tariffs and politics: evidence from Trump's trade wars

Fetzer, Thiemo René; Schwarz, Carlo - 2019

response face a trade-off between maximizing political targeting and mitigating domestic economic harm? We use the recent trade … would have produced a higher degree of political targeting, while posing a lower risk to damage the own economy. We further …

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Attention, Recall and Purchase: Experimental Evidence on Online News and Advertising

Valletti, Tommaso M.; Veiga, André - 2021

We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...

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Optimal Targeting in Fundraising: A Machine-Learning Approach

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021

fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially … geospatial information to realize the gains from targeting. We conclude that charities not engaging in optimal targeting waste …

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Optimal Price Targeting

Smith, Adam N.; Seiler, Stephan; Aggarwal, Ishant - 2021

We examine the proﬁtability of personalized pricing policies that are derived using diﬀerent speciﬁcations of demand in a typical retail setting with consumer-level panel data. We generate pricing policies from a variety of models, including Bayesian hierarchical choice models, regularized...

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Keeping the Peace while Getting Your Way: Information, Persuasion and Intimate Partner Violence

Anderberg, Dan; Cassidy, Rachel; Dam, Anaya; Janssens, Wendy - 2024

We study the effects on intimate partner violence (IPV) of new information received by women only, men only, or both … persuasion model further predicts that marriage delays are largest when targeting men alone or jointly with women and smallest … when targeting women alone, predictions that are also confirmed in the data. …

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Supplier discretion over provision : theory and an application to medical care

Malcomson, James M. - 2005

Suppliers who are better informed than purchasers, such as physicians treating insured patients, often have discretion over what to provide. This paper shows how, when the purchaser observes what is supplied but can observe neither recipient type nor the actual cost incurred, optimal provision...

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Bid rigging : an analysis of corruption in auctions

Lengwiler, Yvan; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2005

In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This invites corruption. We propose a model of corruption in which the auctioneer orchestrates bid rigging by inviting a bidder to either lower or raise his bid, whichever is more profitable. We characterize equilibrium bidding in...

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Optimal Cost Overruns: Procurement Auctions and Renegotiation

Herweg, Fabian; Schwarz, Marco A. - 2016

Cost overrun is ubiquitous in public procurement. We argue that this can be the result of a constraint optimal award …

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A market for connections

Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - 2012

resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are …

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