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The effect of labor migration on the diffusion of democracy : evidence from a former Soviet Republic

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - 2014

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...

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The impact of insufficient sleep on the serial reproduction of information

Dickinson, David L.; Drummond, Sean P. A. - 2024

Story telling is part of life, and the retelling of stories is an important form of communication, cultural practice, and message transmission. Insufficient sleep is known to affect relevant cognitive skill areas necessary for story retelling or transmission fidelity. We conducted a...

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Lost in transmission

Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024

For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...

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The economics of first-contract mediation

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Luttens, Roland Iwan - 2013

This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

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Arbitration and mediation : an economic perspective

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2002

This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can provide specific strategic incentives and thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We...

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Lawyers as agents of the devil in a prisoner's dilemma game : evidence from long run play

Ashenfelter, Orley; Bloom, David E.; Dahl, Gordon B. - 2013

Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such that each party seeks legal representation in the hope of exploiting the other party, while...

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Does family background affect earnings through education? : a generalised approach to mediation analysis

Mendolia, Silvia; Siminski, Peter - 2016

, we propose a generalisation of statistical 'mediation analysis'. In our approach, the treatment and mediator can be …

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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration

Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014

This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...

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Universal Credit : welfare reform and mental health

Brewer, Mike; Dang, Thang; Tominey, Emma - 2022

The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to sustainable employment. Exploiting a staggered roll-out, we estimate the differential effect of entering unemployment under UC versus the former system on mental health. Groups...

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The effect of early life health on later life home care use : the mediating role of household composition

Bijwaard, Govert; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2018

In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...

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