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What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

McKenzie, David J. - 2015

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Corruption in the Health Sector : Evidence from Unofficial Consultation Fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid - 2015

We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...

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Reputation as Insurance : How Reputation Moderates Public Backlash Following a Company's Decision to Profiteer

Arroyos-Calvera, Danae; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2022

We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation, one that is unrelated to his or her business acumen, can impact economic action fairness appraisals. We provide experimental evidence that good corporate reputation causally...

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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Bénabou, Roland - 2009

Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the "psychology and economics" of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which...

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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems

Wibral, Matthias - 2014

Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a...

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The Worth of Cities in Germany

Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023

and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …

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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms

Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …

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Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth : Evidence from Germany

Artmann, Elisabeth; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; GIUPPONI, … - 2023

We provide new evidence of forward-looking labor supply responses to changes in pension wealth. We exploit a 2014 German reform that increased pension wealth for mothers by an average of 4.4% per child born before January 1, 1992. Using administrative data on the universe of working histories,...

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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life

Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023

This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...

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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2011

This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...

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