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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452082
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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts
Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020
-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social … gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all … externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239109
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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort
Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014
ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject choices and subsequent performance at age 17-18. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370100
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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England
Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020
available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203074