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The effect of product demand on inequality : evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976873
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Present-biased preferences and credit card borrowing
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - 2009
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859319
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Time limits : the effects on welfare use and other consumption-smoothing mechanisms
Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - 2012
We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation covering the period 1989-2006 to investigate the impact that time limits on receipt of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families have on female-headed family outcomes, including welfare use, employment and living arrangements. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665634
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The effect of deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised good and its substitutes : the case of over-the-counter weight loss products
Cawley, John H.; Avery, Rosemary J.; Eisenberg, Matthew - 2013
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717705
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Conspicuous consumption in the United States and China
Jinkins, David - 2014
I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381891
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Showing off to the new neighbors? : income, socioeconomic status and consumption patterns of internal migrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - 2013
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740076
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Can financial incentives help people trying to establish new habits? : experimental evidence with new gym members
Carrera, Mariana; Royer, Heather; Stehr, Mark; Syndor, … - 2017
We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change a health behavior. Our experiment randomized 836 new members of a private gym into a control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703984
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Consumption inequality and the frequency of purchases
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - 2017
We document a decline in the frequency of shopping trips in the U.S. since 1980 and consider its implications for the measurement of consumption inequality. A decline in shopping frequency as households stock up on storable goods (i.e. inventory behavior) will lead to a rise in expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704243
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Why volunteer? : Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
crowd out prosocial behavior. -- Volunteer ; altruism ; reputation ; firefighter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561613
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Markets for reputation : evidence on quality and quantity in academe
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2009
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The … central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that … overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality of an individual’s most important exposure have an extra effect on …
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