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Fungibility, labels, and consumption
Abeler, Johannes (contributor); Marklein, Felix (contributor) - 2008
Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for another and that the composition of income is irrelevant for consumption. We find in a field experiment that even in a simple, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as...
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Political ideology, mood response, and the confirmation bias
Dickinson, David L. - 2022
The confirmation bias is a well-known form of motivated reasoning that serves to protect an individual from cognitive discomfort. Hearing rival viewpoints or belief-opposing information creates cognitive dissonance, and so avoiding exposure to, or discounting the validity of, dissonant...
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The employment, unemployment and unemployment compensation benefits of immigrants
Hurst, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and in comparison with the native born. The empirical analysis uses microdata from the 1990 Census of Population. Three dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in...
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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe
Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014
We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...
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Providing advice to job seekers at low cost : an experimental study on online advice
Belot, Michèle; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul - 2016
We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that redesigns the job search process by providing tailored advice at low cost. We invited job seekers to our computer facilities for 12 consecutive weekly sessions to search for real jobs on our web interface. For half, instead of relying on...
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Gender differences in cognition in China and reasons for change over time : evidence from CHARLS
Lei, Xiaoyan; Smith, James P.; Sun, Xiaoting; Zhao, Yaohui - 2013
and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition - episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium : a level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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Use it or lose it : Irish evidence
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
. As retirement is potentially endogenous with respect to cognition, instrumental variable (IV) methods are also used. The … estimations are used, the effect of retirement on cognition is negative but statistically insignificant. Differences between OLS …
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
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