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Umbrella branding and the provision of quality

Hakenes, Hendrik (contributor); Peitz, Martin (contributor) - 2004

the firm sells both products under the same brand name, consumers adjust their beliefs about quality subject to the … markets and that even unprofitable products may be used to stabilize the umbrella brand. However, umbrella branding does not …

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Batman forever? : the role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry

Kaiser, Franziska; Cuntz, Alexander; Peukert, Christian - 2023

We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...

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Impatience and uncertainty : experimental decisions predict adolescents' field behavior

Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela - 2011

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 impatience are found to be significant predictors of...

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On the design of education conditional cash transfer programs and non education outcomes : the case of teenage pregnancy

Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - 2011

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on school...

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Health insurance coverage and risky health behaviors among young adults

Yörük, Barış K. - 2015

adults using the confidential version of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 Cohort (NLSY97). Before the …

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Individual and developmental differences in the relationship of preferences and theory of mind

Leipold, Kristina; Vetter, Nora C.; Dittrich, Marcus; … - 2012

Theory of mind and individual preferences are important determinants in social decision making. The current study examined in a large sample whether being a cooperative preference type is related with better theory of mind skills. Furthermore, by testing adolescents and adults, we examined the...

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Can't buy mommy's love? : universal childcare and children's long-term cognitive development

Felfe, Christina; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2013

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...

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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills

Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013

This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...

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Do minimum legal tobacco purchase age laws work?

Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014

of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on the exact birth date of the respondents, we find that the impact of … the MLTPA on several indicators of smoking among youth is minor and often insignificant. However, we also show that … are designed to restrict youth access to tobacco are only effective in reducing smoking participation among certain groups …

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