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Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals

Askitas, Nikos - 2017

An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of … opinion clusters and polarisation. We investigate the role of heterogeneous priors in opinion formation, introduce the concept … of opinion copulas, argue that it is well supported by findings in Social Psychology and use it to show that the …

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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis: theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone?s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior

Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012

We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health - which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...

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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...

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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

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The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...

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Attitudes towards immigration: does economic self-interest matter?

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, … - 2006

In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful...

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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

We investigate whether two crucial determinants of economic decision making willingness to take risks and willingness to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about these attitudes directly, and are good measures in the...

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