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Optimizing criminal behavior and the disutility of prison

Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Rivers, David A. - 2017

We use rich microdata on bank robberies to estimate individual-level disutilities of imprisonment. The identification rests on the money versus apprehension trade-off that robbers face inside the bank when deciding whether to leave or collect money for an additional minute. The distribution of...

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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Mani, Subha; Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favorable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...

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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023

Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...

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The labour market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle : evidence from two British cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2015

-term disadvantages in terms of employment, wages or both. Using two UK cohort studies, that allow us to follow individuals for at least …

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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

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The effect of economic change and elite framing on economic preferences : a survey experiment

Marx, Paul; Schumacher, Gijs - 2014

by income group and partisanship. Our survey experiment - carried out in the UK - demonstrates that poor economic …

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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education

Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016

We study students' motives for educational attainment in a unique survey of 885 secondary school students in the UK. As …

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Relative concerns for consumption at the top : an intertemporal analysis for the UK

Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2014

choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the …

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Anand, Paul; llen, Heidi; Ferrer, Robert; Gold, Natalie; … - 2020

The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 …

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Macroeconomic determinants of international migration to the UK

Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … macroeconomic variables – UK GDP growth and GDP at origin - are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of … result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …

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