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Multinomial logit is the canonical model of discrete choice but widely criticized for requiring functional form … assumptions as foundation. The present paper shows that logit is behaviorally founded without such assumptions. Logit's functional … and translation invariance. Relaxing context independence yields contextual logit (Wilcox, 2011), relaxing presentation …
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crises using a sample of advanced economies covering the past 45 years. We compare a benchmark logit approach to several … very high in-sample fit, they are outperformed by the logit approach in recursive out-of-sample evaluations. This result is … crises. Conventional logit models appear to use the available information already fairly efficiently, and would for instance …
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I investigate how households and firms adjust their inflation expectations when experiencing an increase in their … households increase their inflation expectations when they personally experience an increase in their electricity prices. This … result is inconsistent with full-information rational expectations but can be rationalized by households extrapolating their …
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This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...
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Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the microsimulation model STSM, we find that hours and participation elasticities are substantially smaller than those in the...
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Why does patience vary across individuals and countries? We provide evidence on a widely-hypothesized mechanism, namely that higher longevity fosters patience. Using data on patience for 80,000 individuals in 76 countries, this paper relates exogenous variation in longevity across...
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Wie kann Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie gelingen – und zwar sowohl bei Frau-en als auch bei Männern? Ziel des Forschungsprojektes "Betriebliche Gelingensbedin-gungen einer partnerschaftlichen Aufteilung von Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit" war es herauszufinden, unter welchen Bedingungen...
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Digitale Technologien begünstigen den Einsatz einer dynamischen Preisgestaltung, also von Preisen, die für ein prinzipiell gleiches Produkt unangekündigt variieren. Dabei werden in der öffentlichen Diskussion unterschiedliche Ausgestaltungsformen dynamischer Preise oftmals vermischt, was...
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We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
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