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Tacit lobbying agreements: An experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - 2010

We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring money to two competing candidates. The success of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not...

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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You’re the One That I Want! Public Employment and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Gomes, Pedro Maia; Kuehn, Zoë - 2019

In most countries, the public sector hires disproportionally more women than men. We document gender differences in employment, transition probabilities, hours, and wages in the public and private sector using microdata for the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain. We then build...

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Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards

Delgado Helleseter, Miguel; Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - 2016

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests … of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …

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Framing the Predicted Impacts of COVID-19 Prophylactic Measures in Terms of Lives Saved Rather Than Deaths Is More Effective for Older People

Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven J.; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2020

This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...

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Counting Missing Women – A Reconciliation of the 'Flow Measure' and the 'Stock Measure'

Ebert, Cara; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2022

'Stock estimates' of missing women suggest that the problem is concentrated in South and East Asia and among young children. In contrast, 'flow estimates' suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger, is as severe among adults as it is among children in India and China, and is larger in...

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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy

Ali, S. Nageeb; Benabou, Roland - 2016

We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...

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Nobody likes a rat: On the willingness and consequences of reporting lies

Reuben, Ernesto; Stephenson, Matt - 2012

We investigate the intrinsic motivation of individuals to report, and thereby sanction, fellow group members who lie for personal gain. We further explore the changes in lying and reporting behavior that result from giving individuals a say in who joins their group. We find that enough...

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Spillovers and Long-Run Effects of Messages on Tax Compliance: Experimental Evidence from Peru

Castro, Juan Francisco; Velásquez, Daniel; Beltrán, … - 2020

We carry out a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of three different types of messages sent to taxpayers on their compliance with the rental income tax (direct effect) and the spillovers produced on payments related to the capital gains and the self-employment income taxes. One...

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