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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary …
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Digital piracy : theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
are considered. Finally, a quick look at emerging new business models is taken. -- information good ; piracy ; copyright … ; IP protection ; internet ; peer-to-peer ; software ; music …
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Internet and voting in the Web 2.0 era : evidence from a local broadband policy
Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2016
broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …
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Lock-in effects in online labor markets
Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021
This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...
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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects … several dimensions of social capital. One identification strategy uses panel information to estimate value-added models. A …
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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Learning from online ratings
Hui, Xiang; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2024
Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller’s type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns...
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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...
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Big data analytics : a new perspective
Chudik, Alexander; Kapetanios, George; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2016
Model specification and selection are recurring themes in econometric analysis. Both topics become considerably more complicated in the case of large-dimensional data sets where the set of specification possibilities can become quite large. In the context of linear regression models, penalised...
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Mining for peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
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