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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India

Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018

. This paper examines customer discrimination considering a unique dataset from the most popular sports industry in India, i …

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Women, children and patience : experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …

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India's calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of calorie purchases

Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020

, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption … India's National Sample Survey reveals that Indian households' purchase of calories did become more cost-efficient at every … of the Calorie Consumption Puzzle. Besides thus investigating India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle, this study demonstrates …

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Mending the gap : apparel export prices and the gender wage gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2022

Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...

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Consumption network effects

De Giorgi, Giacomo; Frederiksen, Anders; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2016

In this paper we study the relevance and mechanics of consumption network effects. We use long panel data on the entire Danish population to construct a measure of consumption based on administrative tax records, and define the peer groups in terms of workplace, occupation, education, and age....

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The compromise effect in action : lessons from a restaurant's menu

Pinger, Pia; Ruhmer-Krell, Isabel; Schumacher, Heiner - 2016

The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field data from a specialties restaurant to investigate the existence and strength of the compromise...

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Consumption smoothing in the demand for health care

Kristensen, Nicolai; Lindegaard Andersen, Henrik - 2016

We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...

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Soda taxes and the prices of sodas and other drinks : evidence from Mexico

Grogger, Jeff - 2016

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to as a "soda tax," effective January 2014. Since the tax took effect nationwide, there is no conventional control group that can be used as a baseline to estimate how the tax...

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Why don't we sleep enough? : a field experiment among college students

Avery, Mallory; Giuntella, Osea; Jiao, Peiran - 2019

Sleep deprivation is a risky behavior prevalent in modern societies, leading to negative health and economic consequences. However, we know little about why people decide to sleep less than the recommended number of hours. This study investigates the mechanisms affecting sleep choice and...

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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment

Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019

Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...

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