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Television, health, and happiness: a natural experiment in West Germany

Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2021

Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is unclear. Negative consequences portrayed in the literature raise the question whether this popular pastime constitutes an economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example...

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Lost in transmission

Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024

For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...

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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...

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Differences in job de-routinization in OECD countries : evidence from PIAAC

Rica, Sara de la; Gortazar, Lucas - 2016

The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on the degree of de-routinization of job contents across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-Saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the...

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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....

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Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020

Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...

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The adoption of ChatGPT

Humlum, Anders; Vestergaard, Emilie - 2024

We study the adoption of ChatGPT, the icon of Generative AI, using a large-scale survey experiment linked to comprehensive register data in Denmark. Surveying 100,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, we document ChatGPT is pervasive: half of workers have used it, with younger, less...

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Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence?

Hunt, Jennifer; Cockburn, Iain; Bessen, James - 2024

Using our own data on Artificial Intelligence publications merged with Burning Glass vacancy data for 2007-2019, we investigate whether online vacancies for jobs requiring AI skills grow more slowly in U.S. locations farther from pre-2007 AI innovation hotspots. We find that a commuting zone...

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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …

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Third-party vs. second-party control : disentangling the role of autonomy and reciprocity

Burdín, Gabriel; Halliday, Simon D.; Landini, Fabio - 2015

This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided an alternative explanation based on reciprocity....

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