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Demographic transitions across time and space

Delventhal, Matthew J.; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - 2022

The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime- is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...

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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 expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full-time education. However, the main driver is the...

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Beliefs and utility : experimental evidence on preferences for information

Falk, Armin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2016

Beliefs are a central determinant of behavior. Recent models assume that beliefs about or the anticipation of future …

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Political activists as free-riders : evidence from a natural field experiment

Hager, Anselm; Hensel, Lukas; Hermle, Johannes; Roth, … - 2019

How does a citizen's decision to participate in political activism depend on the participation of others? We examine this core question of collective action in a nation-wide natural field experiment in collaboration with a major European party during a recent national election. In a seemingly...

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Rank, sex, drugs, and crime

Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015

In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, and exploiting idiosyncratic variation in the cohort composition within a school, we find a strong...

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Genetic ability, wealth, and financial decision-making

Barth, Daniel; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017

bequests. This leads us to explore the role of beliefs, financial literacy and portfolio decisions in explaining this genetic … gradient in wealth.We show that individuals with lower genetic scores are more prone to reporting "extreme beliefs" (e …

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The ideological roots of institutional change

Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate ideological backlashes and at other times lead to transformative sociopolitical movements? We propose an explanation that highlights the...

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Spillover effects of institutions on cooperative behavior, preferences and beliefs

Englmaier, Florian; Riedl, Arno; Weber, Roberto A. - 2017

also alters prosocial preferences and beliefs about others' behavior. Groups play two identical public good games. We vary … also find that institutions of either type enhance prosocial preferences and beliefs about others' prosocial behavior, even …

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Religion and innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …

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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field … influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others' behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game … with a leader. We find that leaders strongly shape their followers' initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds …

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