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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals
Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011
development of the justice system. This paper contributes to this literature by evaluating the role of access to justice in … Paulo during the 1990s. Special Civil Tribunals increased the geographic presence of the justice system, simplified judicial … local level, or to pre-existing trends in entrepreneurship. -- access to justice ; courts ; entrepreneurship ; institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315472
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Replication in economics
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2007
This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity of both pure replication checking on others' published papers using their data and scientific replication using data representing different populations in one's own work or in a Comment. Several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590624
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(In)equality and (in)justice
Jasso, Guillermina - 2016
Understanding the exact connection between inequality and justice is important because justice is classically regarded … justice, the sense of justice would not awaken to exert its moral suasion, no matter how great the inequality or how fast its … increase. We obtain exact links between economic inequality and three parameters of the justice evaluation distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521090
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The paradox of declining female happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859341
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Should you allow your agent to become your competitor? : On non-compete agreements in employment contracts
Kräkel, Matthias (contributor); Sliwka, Dirk (contributor) - 2006
We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be beneficial for the principal as the possibility to leave the firm generates implicit incentives for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301668
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Laws and norms
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530311
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Subjective and objective indicators of racial progress
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727586
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Immigration, crime, and crime (mis)perceptions
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Domínguez, Patricio; Undurraga, Raimundo - 2021
This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where the foreign-born population more than doubled in the last decade. By using individual-level victimization data, we document null effects of immigration on crime but positive and significant effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431187
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Trust and social preferences in times of acute health crisis
Casoria, Fortuna; Galeotti, Fabio; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2023
We combined a natural experiment (the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020) with the tools of laboratory experiments to study whether and how an unprecedented shock on social interactions (the introduction and abrogation of a nationwide lockdown) affected the evolution of individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013542838
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Other-regarding preferences and performance pay : an experiment on incentives and sorting
Eriksson, Tor (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115447