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Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; De Benedetto, Marco … - 2019

We use the repeated random assignment of external examiners to school institutes in Italy to investigate whether the effect of external monitoring on test score manipulation persists over time. We find that this effect is still present in the tests taken one year after exposure to the examiners,...

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Beware of Workaholics : Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2005

individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent externalities. For instance, a global sociological change where the …

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Human capital externalities with monopsonistic competition

Kaas, Leo - 2008

This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model …

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Market distortions and local indeterminacy: A general approach

Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - 2011

We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...

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Identifying human capital externalities : theory with an application to US cities

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2002

Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not fully understood. The … existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an … approach that yields positive average human capital externalities if and only if the marginal social product of workers with …

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Cooperation, motivation and social balance

Bosworth, Steven; Singer, Tania; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's preferences depend on their psychological motives. People have access to multiple, discrete motives....

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