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Explorations of the effect of experience on preferences: two health-care case studies
Neumann, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - 2006
The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have challenged this assumption and claimed (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276042
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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies
Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have challenged this assumption and claimed (providing evidence) that preferences are constantly changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763449
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Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?
Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It has been suggested in the literature that a source of incompleteness in the agency relationship between the doctor and the patient is that the provider may respond to an incomplete or biased perception of the patient’s interests. However, this has not been shown empirically. This paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566524
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Who Benefits from Corporate Social Responsibility? Reciprocity in the Presence of Social Incentives and Self-Selection
Briscese, Guglielmo; Feltovich, Nick; Slonim, Robert - 2021
Firms can donate a share of profits to charity as a form of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Recent experiments have found that such initiatives can induce higher effort by workers, generating benefits for both sides of the labour market. We design a novel version of the gift-exchange game...
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The effects of school libraries on language skills: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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Human Capital Persistence and Development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307313
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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review
Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015
We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307496
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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … development policies and further research are outlined. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401794
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The Capability Threshold: Re-examining the Definition of the Middle Class in an Unequal Developing Country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; van der Berg, Servaas - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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