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We examine the residential segregation of workers and the unemployed in the 80 largest cities in Germany. Drawing on a large set of geo-referenced data for the period from 2000 until 2015, we are able to study the within-city distribution of unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a...
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We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard...
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Positive and negative feelings were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical … economics. While neoclassical utility theory ignored feelings, behavioral economics more recently reintroduced feelings in … utility theory. Beyond feelings, economic theorists use full-fledged specific emotions to explain behavior that otherwise …
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