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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin - 2011
foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is … potentially problematic as students participating in experiments may behave systematically different than non …-participating students or non-students. In this paper we empirically investigate whether laboratory experiments with student samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130435
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Gender Differences in Cooperation : Experimental Evidence on High School Students
Molina, Jose Alberto - 2013
-school students in both a square lattice and a heterogeneous network. We find that female students have a higher probability of … cooperation than male students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080868
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The Rise in Absenteeism : Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time
Biorn, Erik - 2010
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...
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Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Women’s Labor Force Participation 1968-2010
Macunovich, Diane - 2011
Relative cohort size – the ratio of young to prime-age adults – and relative income – the income of young adults relative to their material aspirations, as instrumented using the income of older families their parents' age – have experienced dramatic changes over the past 40 years....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121330
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Greying the Budget : Ageing and Preferences Over Public Policies
de Mello, Luiz R. - 2016
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia, we find that older individuals are less likely to support a rise in government outlays on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000063
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000066
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A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009
Duval Hernández, Robert - 2009
This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are the labor force participation, the unemployment rate, and the employment shares of the formal and informal salaried sectors, as well as of self-employment. These rates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156405
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Well-Being Over the Life Span : Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph - 2009
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159933
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Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey : A Synthetic Cohort (Panel) Analysis, 1988-2013
Tunali, İnsan - 2020
We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic panel approach. In our decomposition of age, year, and cohort effects, we use three APC models that have received close scrutiny of the demography community. We rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844827
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Economic Conditions at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood : Evidence from New Cohorts
Alessie, Rob - 2017
Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955000