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Do couples pool their income? Evidence from demand system estimation for Germany
Beznoska, Martin - 2019
Whether couples pool their resources and behave like a unit or spend their income individually is crucial for social and tax policy. In this paper, I provide a test of the income pooling hypothesis using administrative cross-sectional survey data on expenditures and individual incomes of couple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984270
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Competitive equilibria in decentralized matching with incomplete information
Atakan, Alp E. - 2007
This paper shows that all perfect Bayesian equilibria of a dynamic matching game with two-sided incomplete information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266300
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School choice and loss aversion
Meisner, Vincent; von Wangenheim, Jonas - 2019
Extensive evidence suggests that participants in the direct student-proposing deferred-acceptance mechanism (DSPDA) play dominated strategies. In particular, students with low priority tend to misrepresent their preferences for popular schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290339
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Cooperation, competition, and welfare in a matching market
Bester, Helmut; Sákovics, József - 2022
We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched … pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it … creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out, however, that a reduction in matching frictions also increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013333575
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Reciprocal Preferences in Matching Markets
Opitz, Timm; Schwaiger, Christoph - 2023
paper, we introduce and formalize reciprocal preferences, apply them to matching markets, and analyze the implications for … acceptance mechanism can achieve stability. These results provide insights into non-standard preferences in matching markets, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467722
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Cooperation, Competition, and Welfare in a Matching Market
Bester, Helmut; Sákovics, József - 2022
We investigate the welfare effect of increasing competition in an anonymous two-sided matching market, where matched … pairs play an infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma. Higher matching efficiency is usually considered detrimental as it … creates stronger incentives for defection. We point out, however, that a reduction in matching frictions also increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467786
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Improving Transparency and Verifiability in School Admissions: Theory and Experiment
Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Raghavan, Madhav - 2023
Students participating in centralized admissions procedures do not typically have access to the information used to determine their matched school, such as other students' preferences or school priorities. This can lead to doubts about whether their matched schools were computed correctly (the...
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Everyone Likes to Be Liked: Experimental Evidence from Matching Markets
Opitz, Timm; Schwaiger, Christoph - 2023
Matching markets can be unstable when individuals prefer to be matched to a partner who also wants to be matched with … preferences exist, significantly decrease stability in matching markets, and are driven both by belief-based and preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467870
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The productivity of family and hired labour in EU arable farming
Kloss, Mathias; Petrick, Martin - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for heterogeneous effects of family and hired labour for a set of five EU member states. To this end, we estimate augmented production functions using FADN data for the years 2001-2008....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872551
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Family Migration : A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859576