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significantly from normality. Even though the Shannon entropy is more inclusive of different facets of a forecast density, we find …
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avoid ambiguity even when it means choosing dominated options. In contrast to the literature, we find that 55% of subjects … that such a preference is not mainly due to a lack of understanding. We conclude that subjects avoid ambiguity per se … rather than avoiding ambiguity because it may yield a worse outcome. Such behavior cannot be reconciled with existing models …
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The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...
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In the home-care services industry, caregivers drive to visit patients scattered in a district and deliver various care services at the patient's home. We use a unique data set, with a standard panel structure, recording the hours of service and the exact number of miles traveled by each...
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face lower relocation costs than NEs, which enhances their bargaining position. Using French firm-level data and entropy …
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market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences approach with entropy balancing to account …
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An extensive literature has studied ambiguity aversion in economic decision making, and how ambiguity aversion can … general dislike of ambiguity. In this paper, we provide a systematic experimental assessment of ambiguity attitudes in … more than 500 participants and find that ambiguity aversion is the exception, not the rule. We replicate the usual finding …
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Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
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In several countries, students who fail end-of-high-school high-stakes exams are faced with the choice of retaking them or forgoing postsecondary education. We explore exogenous variation generated by a 2006 policy that imposed a performance threshold for admission into postsecondary education...
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