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Living in two neighborhoods : social interactions in the lab

Falk, Armin (contributor); Fischbacher, Urs (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...

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Thieves, thugs, and neighborhood poverty

Bjerk, David - 2009

This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover,...

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Neighborhood effects in education

Del Bello, Carlo Leone; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2015

Using unique geo-coded information on the residential address of a representative sample of American adolescents and their friends, we revisit the importance of geographical proximity in shaping education outcomes. Our findings reveal no evidence of residential neighborhood effects. Social...

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Understanding migration aversion using elicited counterfactual choice probabilities

Koşar, Gizem; Ransom, Tyler; Klaauw, Wilbert van der - 2019

Residential mobility rates in the U.S. have fallen considerably over the past three decades. The cause of the long-term decline remains largely unexplained. In this paper we investigate the relative importance of alternative drivers of residential mobility, including job opportunities,...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Geographies of socio-economic inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

on contextual and neighbourhood effects. We address some of the main challenges in modelling contextual effects and …

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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...

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Are children "normal"?

Black, Dan A.; Kolesnikova, Natalia; Sanders, Seth; … - 2011

We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly-educated women living in similarly-expensive locations, completed fertility is positively correlated...

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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion

Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …

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Kinky choices, dictators and split might : a non-cooperative model for household consumption and labor supply

Boone, Jan; Wiel, Karen van der; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2009

It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We therefore model consumption and labor supply behavior of a couple in a non-cooperative setting...

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