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Does Reform Work? An Econometric Examination of the Reform-Growth Puzzle
Babetskii, Ian; Campos, Nauro F. - 2021
Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096476
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …
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Economic Science and Political Influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2013
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088344
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Cherry-Picking in Labor Market with Imperfect Information
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
We study a competitive labor market with imperfect information. In our basic model, the labor market consists of heterogeneous workers and ex ante identical firms who have only imperfect private information about workers' productivities. Firms compete by posting wages in order to cherry-pick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157747
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Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2015
theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021950
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The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation : An Empirical Investigation
Aghion, Philippe - 2015
mechanism should – in theory – provide incentives for truth-telling, many buyers in fact believe that they can increase their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023778
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The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions with Incomplete Information
Casoria, Fortuna; Reuben, Ernesto; Rott, Christina - 2021
We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have. We evaluate whether sharing an identity results...
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Sterilization Policy with Incomplete Information in Peru : Does History Repeat Itself?
Jiménez, Bruno; Rendon, Sílvio - 2021
We contrast the socio-demographic profiles and degree of information received by women that were sterilized with women that used other contraceptive methods. We use data from the 2016 round of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) for Peru and compare these profiles with those of the 2000s,...
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Sterilization Policy with Incomplete Information : Peru 1995-2000
Rendon, Sílvio - 2021
In this research I investigate what percentage of female sterilizations performed in Peru from 1993 to 2000 were done providing adequate information to their users for a free decision about their adoption. I use data from ENDES/DHS 2000, which contains detailed information about contraceptive...
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