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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … experiment indicate that the treatment group of students receiving free computers has a 4.5 percentage point higher probability …
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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 - 2010
-selected students as participants. This is potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically … different than non-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory … experiments with student samples misrepresent the importance of social preferences. Our first study shows that students who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697134
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Beliefs as a means of self-control? : evidence from a dynamic student survey
Bönisch, Felix; König, Tobias; … - 2024
We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
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Controlling product risks when consumers are heterogeneously overconfident : producer liability vs. minimum quality standard regulation
Baniak, Andrzejj; Grajzl, Peter - 2014
Contributing to the literature on the consequences of behavioral biases for market outcomes and institutional design, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product-related torts when consumers are heterogeneously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413791
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Consumer sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic : the role of others' beliefs
Bui, Dzung; Dräger, Lena; Hayo, Bernd; Giang Hong Nghiem - 2021
This paper investigates the direct and indirect effects of others' beliefs on respondents' own beliefs and consumer sentiment. Conducting consumer surveys with randomized control trials (RCTs) in Thailand and Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic, we implement two information treatments. Both...
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Trust, Happiness, and pro-social behavior
Carattini, Stefano; Roesti, Matthias - 2020
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers : dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations
Li, Yao - 2009
This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...
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Cross-country income differences and technology diffusion in a competitive world
Irmen, Andreas - 2008
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
It has long been argued that the implementation of market-based environmental policy instruments such as environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850134
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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