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The effect of distance to colleges on application behavior
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2024
achievement but vary in distance to the nearest selective and non-selective college. Students who live closer to a selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064412
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Priming cooperation in social dilemma games
Drouvelis, Michalis; Metcalfe, Robert M.; Powdthavee, … - 2010
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure effects of a rather subtle mechanism on social preferences in a one-shot linear public good game....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968450
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Anger and strategic behavior: a level-k analysis
Castagnetti, Alessandro; Proto, Eugenio - 2020
Anger is an important driver in shaping economic activities, particularly in instances that involve strategic interactions between individuals. Here we test whether anger impairs the capacity to think strategically, and we analyze the implications of our result on bargaining and cooperation...
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Embezzlement and guilt aversion
Attanasi, Giuseppe; Rimbaud, Claire; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018
Psychological game theory can contribute to renew the analysis of unethical behavior by providing insights on the nature of the moral costs of dishonesty. We investigate the moral costs of embezzlement in situations where donors need intermediaries to transfer their donations to recipients and...
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The broken chain : evidence against emotionally driven upstream indirect reciprocity
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2022
Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document that subjects indeed 'pay forward' specific behavior. For example, they are less generous after having experienced...
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Geographic proximity, trade and international conflict/cooperation
Robst, John (contributor); Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces … ; distance ; geographic proximity ; cooperation ; international relations ; international interactions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283434
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Meet the parents? : the causal effect of family size on the geographic distance between adult children and older parents
Holmlund, Helena; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2009
distance between adult children and elderly parents. Given current population trends, understanding how different … estimate the causal effect of sibship size on the geographic distance between older parents and adult children by using a large … administrative data set from Sweden. We find a positive association between sibship size and child-parent geographic distance …
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Divorced fathers’ proximity and children’s long run outcomes : evidence from Norwegian registry data
Kalil, Ariel; Mogstad, Magne; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - 2010
This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 children born into married households in Norway in the years 1975-1979 whose...
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952917
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How local are labor markets? : evidence from a spatial job search model
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
that the cost of distance is relatively high - the utility of being offered a job decays at exponential rate around 0 ….3 with distance (in km) to the job - so that labor markets are indeed quite 'local'. Also, workers are discouraged from …
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