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Awareness programs and change in taste-based caste prejudice

Banerjee, Ritwik; Gupta, Nabanita Datta - 2014

Becker's theory of taste-based discrimination predicts that relative employment of the discriminated social group will improve if there is a decrease in the level of prejudice for the marginally discriminating employer. In this paper we experimentally test this prediction offered by Becker...

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Do politicians change public attitudes?

Carlsson, Magnus; Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2016

A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite question: do political parties affect public attitudes on important policy issues? Problems of reverse...

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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

, specificity, and the complexity, are analyzed by using firm level data in Turkey. This study has three main conclusions. As for …

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Trend-spotting in the housing market

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...

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Calling the Greek referendum on the nose with Google Trends

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...

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Predicting the Irish "gay marriage" referendum

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...

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The complexity of economic policy : I. Restricted local optima in tax policy design

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...

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Predicting road conditions with internet search

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...

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Strategic complexity and the value of thinking

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2022

leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions to measure the strategic complexity of a … characteristics of play in the previous round). We find that strategic complexity varies significantly across situations, and we find … considerable heterogeneity in how responsive subjects' thinking times are to complexity. We also study how variation in response …

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Opinion copulas, homophily and multimodal marginals

Askitas, Nikos - 2017

An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely it is that we will interact and converge. Models using these assumptions are called bounded...

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