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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination
Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015
be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and … preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how perceived gender discrimination can foster or … to both sample selection bias and potential endogeneity issues. Perceived gender discrimination is shown to form a strong …
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Discrimination and Employment Protection
Holden, Steinar; Rosen, Asa - 2021
sustaining discrimination. In contrast to standard models, the existence of employers with a taste for discrimination may make it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316313
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Reformation and Reallocation : Religious and Secular Economic Activity in Early Modern Germany
Cantoni, Davide - 2017
The Protestant Reformation, beginning in 1517, was a first-order economic shock. We document its effects on the sectoral allocation of economic activity in Germany using highly disaggregated data. During the Reformation, particularly in Protestant regions, large numbers of monasteries were...
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Physical Distance and Cooperativeness Towards Strangers
Kuehl, Leonie - 2018
fixed. The data shows that an increase in local physical distance decreases willingness to donate. A laboratory experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926989
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Disguising Lies - Image Concerns and Partial Lying in Cheating Games
Khalmetski, Kiryl - 2019
We study equilibrium reporting behavior in Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013)-type cheating games when agents have a fixed cost of lying and image concerns not to be perceived as a liar. We show that equilibria naturally arise in which agents with low costs of lying randomize among a set of...
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Market Competition and Efficient Cooperation
Brandts, Jordi - 2017
We experimentally study the causal effects of different types of market experience on the efficiency levels attained in a subsequent social dilemma. Our motivation stems from the existence of contrasting views on the potential spillover effects of participation in markets on non-market...
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Does Instrumental Reciprocity Crowd Out Prosocial Behavior?
Johnsen, Åshild - 2014
In repeated games, it is hard to distinguish true prosocial behavior from strategic instrumental behavior. In particular, a player does not know whether a reciprocal action is intrinsically or instrumentally motivated. In this paper, we experimentally investigate the relationship between...
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The Many Faces of Human Sociality : Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences
Bruhin, Adrian - 2016
preferences while still being able to predict behavior over time and across situations. We tackle this task with an experiment and …
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Do Employers Discriminate Less if Vacancies are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Baert, Stijn - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086979
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013081