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Beltrametti, Luca F.; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

We study the impact of monitoring in a workplace context where both firms and employees are unable to perfectly observe the individual worker contribution to total output. Therefore, in our setting monitoring is not aimed at reducing information asymmetries but still affects effort and output....

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A hands-on machine learning primer for social scientists : math, algorithms and code

Askitas, Nikos - 2024

This paper addresses the steep learning curve in Machine Learning faced by noncomputer scientists, particularly social scientists, stemming from the absence of a primer on its fundamental principles. I adopt a pedagogical strategy inspired by the adage "once you understand OLS, you can work your...

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The economics of gender-specific minimum wage legislation

Marchingiglio, Riccardo; Poyker, Michael - 2024

Using full count U.S. census data, we study the impact of early 20th-century state-industry-specific minimum wage laws that primarily targeted female employees. Our triple-difference estimates suggest a null impact of the minimum wage laws, potentially reflecting disemployment effects and the...

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Unemployment, segregation, and the structure of cities

Heuermann, Daniel F.; Vom Berge, Philipp - 2024

We examine the residential segregation of workers and the unemployed in the 80 largest cities in Germany. Drawing on a large set of geo-referenced data for the period from 2000 until 2015, we are able to study the within-city distribution of unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a...

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Healthcare appointments as commitment devices

Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; … - 2024

We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard...

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Current emotion research in economics

Wälde, Klaus; Moors, Agnes - 2016

Positive and negative feelings were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical … economics. While neoclassical utility theory ignored feelings, behavioral economics more recently reintroduced feelings in … utility theory. Beyond feelings, economic theorists use full-fledged specific emotions to explain behavior that otherwise …

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