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intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a … opportunity and the conscious decision to misreport, reveals that more reflection time increases awareness of the misreporting … opportunity. However, more time has no effect on the conscious decision of whether to misreport or not. Due to subjects' lack of …
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Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers' behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....
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should only be used if they fail to find a job within reasonable time despite high expected initial exit rates …
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Models of labor supply derived from stochastic utility representations and discretized sets of feasible hours of work have gained popularity because they are more practical than the standard approaches based on marginal calculus. In this paper we argue that practicality is not the only feature...
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People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet little is known about how these preferences are formed. In this paper, we provide clean evidence that previous transactions play an important role in shaping perceptions of...
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of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and …
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countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via … the shift-working commodity is held by pairs of countries in different time zones and connected through a good …
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Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...
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We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage has been favoured by strongly felt social norms, and...
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of 52 countries during the globalization period 1988-2006 strongly supports the model. Results solve several time …
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