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On the Generalizability of Experimental Results in Economics : With a Response to Commentors
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; List, John A. - 2021
Economists are increasingly turning to the experimental method as a means to estimate causal effects. By using randomization to identify key treatment effects, theories previously viewed as untestable are now scrutinized, efficacy of public policies are now more easily verified, and stakeholders...
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - 2021
Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
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Lionel Robbins : A Methodological Reappraisal
Resende, Marcelo; Zeidan, Rodrigo M. - 2021
Lionel Robbins contributions are often discussed in terms of two main aspects. First, the delineation of the scope of economics in terms of decision making conditional on scarcity. Second, a more methodological concern with respect to scientific neutrality and the possibility of meaningful...
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The Way in Which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important : On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists
Ortmann, Andreas - 2010
To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the...
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Shall We Keep the Highly Skilled at Home? The Optimal Income Tax Perspective
Simula, Laurent - 2011
migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on productivity. Three average social criteria are distinguished – national …
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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective
Moretto, Michele - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
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Diasporas
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational … various determinants of migration, we find diasporas increase migration flows, lower their average educational level and lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763995
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117782
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What Drives Aggregate Investment? : Evidence from German Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger; Zorn, Peter - 2021
The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that these subjective investment determinants 1) capture...
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Talk or Text? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte, Lelys; Dominguez-Rivera, Patricio; … - 2022
Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...
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