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Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2008

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using a common pool resource (CPR). The exploitation of a CPR involves a negative interpersonal and...

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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The Early History of Program Evaluation and the U.S. Department of Labor

Ashenfelter, Orley C. - 2014

This paper contains a review of the early history of program evaluation research at the US Department of Labor. Some broad lessons for successful evaluation research are summarized.

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The Economics of Replication

Mueller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017

Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...

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Calibration and IV estimation of a wage outcome equation in a dynamic environment

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2008

We consider an artificial population of forward looking heterogeneous agents making decisions between schooling, employment, employment with training and household production, according to a behavioral model calibrated to a large set of stylized facts. Some of these agents are subject to policy...

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The distinction between dictatorial and incentive policy interventions and its implication for IV estimation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2010

We investigate if, and under which conditions, the distinction between dictatorial and incentive-based policy interventions affects the capacity of Instrument Variable (IV) methods to estimate the relevant treatment effect parameter of an outcome equation. The analysis is set in a non-trivial...

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Lab Measures of Other-Regarding Preferences Can Predict Some Related On-the-Job Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment

Burks, Stephen V.; Nosenzo, Daniele; Anderson, Jon E.; … - 2016

We measure a specific form of other-regarding behavior, costly cooperation with an anonymous other, among 645 subjects at a trucker training program in the Midwestern US. Using subjects' second-mover strategy in a sequential form of the Prisoners' Dilemma, we categorize subjects as: Free Rider,...

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Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination: A Note

Drydakis, Nick - 2018

Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …

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Characterizing the instrumental variable identifying assumption as sample selection conditions

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2012

We build on Rosenzweig and Wolpin (2000) and Keane (2010) and show that in order to fulfill the Instrumental variable (IV) identifying moment condition, a policy must be designed so that compliers and non-compliers either have the same average error term, or have an error term ratio equal to...

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The timing of earnings sampling over the life-cycle and IV identification of the return to schooling

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2012

We show that within a life-cycle skill accumulation model, IV identification of the return to schooling parameter is either achieved at any point in the life-cycle where the level of skills accumulated beyond school completion for compliers is exactly equal to the post-schooling skill level of...

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