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Online labor markets provide new opportunities for behavioral research, but conducting economic experiments online raises important methodological challenges. This particularly holds for interactive designs. In this paper, we provide a methodological discussion of the similarities and...
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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
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given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in … effect of ideological predispositions and power on the efforts of the interest groups …
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vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed …
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public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … political power can lead to multiple equilibria in the determination of public education spending. The main predictions of the … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …
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In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based incentive contracts stress their potential unintended effects, including cream-skimming and other...
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reversal of migration during the transition to the steady state, like observed in East Germany after unification in 1990. It is …
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In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment …
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, which appears paradoxical in a world predominantly characterized by complementarity between capital and labor. This paper …
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