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Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language … general equilibrium implications of domestic language proximity, we simulate the repeal of Quebec’s Bill 101, which made … French an official language in Canada and established fundamental language rights for French-speakers. The analysis …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of … particular, more impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body …
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than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when … from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely …
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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We generalize the Rubinstein (1982) bargaining model by disentangling payoff delay from bargaining delay. We show that our extension is isomorphic to generalized discounting with dynamic consistency and characterize the unique equilibrium. Using a novel experimental design to control for various...
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The experimental literature on repeated games has largely focused on settings where players discount the future identically. In applications, however, interactions often occur between players whose time preferences differ. We study experimentally the effects of discounting differentials in...
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framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …
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This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely resembles actual wage differences, prevails across...
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We introduce a novel incentive program aimed at decreasing school absenteeism based on the effect of voluntary promises in motivating desirable behaviour. In contrast to a standard program, in which students receive a reward conditional on having achieved a school attendance rate of at least 90...
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This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in its oversubscribed magnet schools. The district had previously integrated its schools by conducting separate admissions lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black...
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