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Assessing the role of women in tourism related sectors in the Caribbean
Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D.; Hope, Kevin - 2020
This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252703
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Happy hosts? : international tourist arrivals and residents' subjective well-being in Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2016
While there has been a growing interest in the relationship between perceived tourism impacts and residents' quality of … pronounced in countries where tourism intensity is relatively high, as well as among people living in rural areas. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517732
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Do international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigration? : a longitudinal study of 28 European countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023
Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … instrumental variable analysis suggests that incoming tourism has a positive causal effect on attitudes towards immigration in both … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …
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Savings and prize-linked savings accounts
Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - 2012
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of income. This combination suggests that Prize-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631456
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Friendship in a public good experiment
Haan, Marco (contributor); Kooreman, Peter (contributor);  … - 2006
We conduct a public good experiment with high school teenagers. Some groups exclusively consist of students that we know to be friends. Other groups exclusively consist of students that we know not to be friends, and that are mere classmates. We find that 'friends' contribute more to the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314676
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership : a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831912
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Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences
Falk, Armin; Heckman, James J. - 2009
Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909477
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Social comparison and performance : experimental evidence on the fair wage-effort hypothesis
Gächter, Simon; Thöni, Christian - 2010
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair wage-effort hypothesis we find that disadvantageous wage discrimination leads to lower efforts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934053
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Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams in experimental normal-form games
Sutter, Matthias; Czermak, Simon; Feri, Francesco - 2010
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that teams play the Nash strategy significantly more often, and their choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938152
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Teams make you smarter : learning and knowledge transfer in auctions and markets by teams and individuals
Maciejovsky, Boris; Sutter, Matthias; Budescu, David V.; … - 2010
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We reformulated the task in terms of "assets" in a market context. Teams of traders learn the task's...
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