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Mobile internet access and the desire to emigrate

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 617,402 individuals from 2,120...

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Do people value more informative news?

Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019

We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news. Drawing on representative samples of the U.S. population with more than 15,000 respondents in total, we measure and experimentally vary people's beliefs about the...

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Do children benefit from internet access? : experimental evidence from Peru

Malamud, Ofer; Cueto, Santiago; Cristia, Julian; … - 2018

This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received...

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Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks : Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua S.; Mulhern, Christine - 2020

We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled...

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Mistaking noise for bias : victimhood and Hutu-Tutsi reconciliation in East Africa

Blouin, Arthur; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2022

intent of individuals (bias). This "victimhood bias" wherein individuals ascribe noise to bias is much larger for (a … observe that both inter-ethnic contact and economic development are associated with a decline in this victimhood bias. Finally …, those with a lower victimhood bias are more likely to behave cooperatively in inter-ethnic rela-tionships. Our results …

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Implicit preferences inferred from choice

Cunningham, Tom; De Quidt, Jonathan - 2016 - Preliminary draft

A longstanding distinction in psychology is between implicit and explicit preferences. Implicit preferences are ordinarily measured by observing non-choice data, such as response time. In this paper we introduce a method for inferring implicit preferences directly from choices. The necessary...

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On self-serving strategic beliefs

Ging-Jehli, Nadja R.; Schneider, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - 2019

from players with such an incentive and from neutral third parties with no incentive to bias their beliefs. We find no … difference between the two sets of beliefs, suggesting that people do not negatively bias their beliefs about a strategic …

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Streaming platform and strategic recommendation bias

Bourreau, Marc; Gaudin, Germain - 2018

We consider a streaming platform which carries content from various upstream content providers. Participating customers face personalized recommendations from the platform and consume a mix of content originating from each provider. We analyze when the platform uses its personalized...

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Electricity transmission pricing and performance-based regulation

Vogelsang, Ingo (contributor) - 2005

Performance-based regulation (PBR) is influenced by the Bayesian and non-Bayesian incentive mechanisms. While Bayesian incentives are impractical, the insights from their properties can be combined with practical non-Bayesian mechanisms for application to transmission pricing. This combination...

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The welfare effects of mobile internet access : evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home

Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...

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