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Spillovers of prosocial motivation : evidence from an intervention study on blood donors

Bruhin, Adrian; Götte, Lorenz; Haenni, Simon; Jiang, … - 2014

Spillovers of prosocial motivation are crucial for the formation of social capital. They facilitate interactions among individuals and create social multipliers that amplify the effects of policy interventions. We conducted a large-scale intervention study among dyads of blood donors to...

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Discrimination and in-group favoritism in a citywide trust experiment

Falk, Armin (contributor); Zehnder, Christian (contributor) - 2007

-group favoritism in trust decisions. We observe choices of about 1,000 inhabitants of the city of Zurich who take part in a sequential …

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Does Juan Carlos or Nelson obtain a larger price cut in the Spanish housing market?

Nicodemo, Catia; Raya, Josep Maria - 2018

Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant price discounts for immigrants with native names relative to...

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Social segregation in secondary schools : how does England compare with other countries?

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor); … - 2006

We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross … International Student Assessment (PISA), using a number of different measures of social background and of segregation, and allowing … for sampling variation in the estimates. England is shown to be a middle-ranking country, as is the USA. High segregation …

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Immigration, housing rents, and residential segregation : evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur; Tok, Elif Ozcan; Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, … - 2018

-quality units. This finding supports a residential segregation story, which suggests that the refugee wave has increased the demand …

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The measurement of educational inequality : achievement and opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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Distributional impact analysis : toolkit and illustrations of impacts beyond the average treatment effect

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Bittarello, Luca; Davis, Jonathan; … - 2018

Program evaluations often focus on average treatment effects. However, average treatment effects miss important aspects of policy evaluation, such as the impact on inequality and whether treatment harms some individuals. A growing literature develops methods to evaluate such issues by examining...

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Measuring youth empowerment: an illustration using the example of Tunisia

Goedhuys, Micheline; Grimm, Michael; Meysonnat, Aline; … - 2021

Youth empowerment, i.e., the ability of young people to take control over key aspects of their lives, has become a growing concern to achieving sustainable development worldwide. An increasing number of policy interventions is targeting the youth, but to monitor the progress a better...

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Disparities in labour market and income trends during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis : evidence from Germany

Braband, Carsten; Consiglio, Valentina Sara; Grabka, … - 2022

This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis using SOEP-CoV data. It shows that, overall, the self-employed and disadvantaged groups of workers were more severely affected by the...

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Gender discrimination estimation in a search model with matching and bargaining

Flabbi, Luca (contributor) - 2005

Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been considered a possible indication of prejudice against women in the labor market. However, there is no conclusive evidence on whether these differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to...

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