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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2021

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - 2021

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Iyigun, Murat; Weiss, Yoram - 2021

We reconsider the well known Becker-Coase (BC) argument, according to which changes in divorce laws should not affect divorce rates, in the context of households which consume public goods in addition to private goods. For this result to hold, utility must be transferable both within marriage...

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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? An Experimental Approach

Habyarimana, James P.; Humphreys, Macartan; Posner, … - 2021

A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet while the empirical connection between ethnic heterogeneity and the underprovision of public goods is widely accepted, there is little consensus on the specific mechanisms through...

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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010

fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …

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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences

Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2015

Between 1990 and 2008, emissions of the most common air pollutants from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent, even as real U.S. manufacturing output grew substantially. This paper develops a quantitative model to explain how changes in trade, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer...

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

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The US Labor Market in 2030 : A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand

Edwards, Rebecca - 2013

Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...

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School Starting Age and the Impact on School Admission

Caceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio - 2023

This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the … concerns, we identify benefits linked to commencing school at a later age. Our findings demonstrate that children starting … school at an older age enroll in institutions with higher average scores in standardized tests and interact with older peers …

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Overconfident Boys : The Gender Gap in Mathematics Self-Assessment

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Jerrim, John; Pingault, Jean-Baptiste - 2023

It is well established that boys perceive themselves to be better in mathematics than girls, even when their ability is the same. We examine the drivers of this male overconfidence in self-assessed mathematics ability using a longitudinal study of twins. This allows us to control for family...

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