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Peer effects in employment status : evidence from housing lotteries for forced evacuees in Fukushima

Kondo, Ayako; Shoji, Masahiro - 2016

Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident to identify the effect of neighbors' employment rates on an individual's probability of finding a...

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Brothers in arms : spillovers from a draft lottery

Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie … - 2017

Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment - of young men to 8 months of military service - where service status of...

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Does money strengthen our social ties? : longitudinal evidence of lottery winners

Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021

We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite...

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Left behind but doing good? : civic engagement in two post-socialist countries

Nikolova, Milena; Roman, Monica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015

– Bulgaria and Romania – the EU's poorest, unhappiest, and among the most corrupt members. We show that having close contacts … in Bulgaria and Romania. Given civil society's role for development in post-socialist Europe and the socio-economic and … institutional challenges that Bulgaria and Romania face compared with the rest of the EU, understanding the channels fostering civil …

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Gambling habits and probability judgements in a Bayesian task environment

Dickinson, David L.; Reid, Parker - 2023

information sources. Exploratory analysis, however, revealed interesting effects related to self-reported gambling frequency …-reported gambling frequency was stronger for females. Decision modeling found a decreased weight placed on new evidence (over base rate … frequency of gambling to worse performance in the critical probability assessment skills that should benefit gambling success (i …

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Prize and risk-taking strategy in tournaments : evidence from professional poker players

Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This study examines whether people optimally respond to prize incentives for risk taking in tournaments. I exploit the television game show World Poker Tour as a natural experiment. The results show that professional players strategically choose the degree of risk taking depending on the...

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Do financial bonuses to employees reduce their absenteeism? : Outcome of a lottery

Hassink, Wolter H. J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous three months and not having won the lottery earlier. It turns out that the lottery results in a...

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Spillovers in fields of study : siblings, cousins, and neighbors

Avdeev, Stanislav; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - 2023

We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller...

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When transparency fails : how altruistic framing sustains demand for useless advice despite complete information

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes Eko; Zhang, Xiaojie - 2024

This study examines whether complete transparency about the randomness of prediction-generating processes mitigates the hot hand fallacy and the conditions under which it may fail. In a pre-registered laboratory experiment (N=750), we showed that transparency about the prediction-generating...

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The effects of lottery prizes on winners and their neighbors : evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Kooreman, Peter; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010

Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors. Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...

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