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The impact of losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges
Buser, Thomas - 2014
How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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Gender norms and income misreporting within households
Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2018
outearns her partner. This misreporting is best explained by the role of gender norms in individuals' self-portrayals and self-perception. …
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Socialism, identity and the well-being of unemployed women
Günther, Tom; Conradi, Jakob; Hetschko, Clemens - 2024
Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …
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Nineteenth century black and white US statures : the primary sources of vitamin D and their relationship with height
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...
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EU-accession effects on sectoral trade : a Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein approach with panel data
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - 2014
This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in final goods separately. A gravity model is applied to disaggregated trade data over the period 1999 - 2009 for trade between EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts...
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Gene-environment effects on female fertility
Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021
Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
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Human capital depreciation
Dinerstein, Michael; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Yannelis, … - 2020
Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker skills are difficult to measure and less productive workers are more likely to spend time in non-employment. We overcome these challenges with new administrative data on...
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The (un)Importance of inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total … extreme wealth inequality in society. …
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Show me the amenity: : are higher-paying firms better all around?
Sockin, Jason - 2022
Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse amenities? Using matched U.S. employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint distribution of wages, amenities, and job satisfaction across firms. Fifty amenities are captured applying topic...
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Exposure to more female peers widens the gender gap in STEM participation
Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Zölitz, Ulf - 2019
This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility. …
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