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Does Daylight Saving Time Really Make Us Sick?

Jin, Lawrence; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do not find much evidence that population health...

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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by … discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity, which can result …

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Producer protection legislation and termination damages in the presence of contracting frictions

Wu, Steven Y. - 2009

This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...

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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Gradstein, Mark; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies, business ownership regulations, restrictions on political participation, access to public services and more. This paper...

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Living in Two Neighborhoods : Social Interactions in the Lab

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs; Gächter, Simon - 2004

Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...

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Mutual monitoring in teams: theory and experimental evidence on the importance of reciprocity

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert - 2006

Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk theorem with repeated interactions which requires reasonably accurate public information...

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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated

Schiff, Maurice - 2005

Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...

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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005

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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Intergenerational analysis of social interaction

Brown, Sarah; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2011

We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the...

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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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