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payoffs on cooperation, focussing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. Following Mengel (2018 …) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … defectors and co-operators respectively, while an index of efficiency captures the gains from cooperation. We conduct two …
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activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non …-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of risk on the allocation decisions of agricultural households as they allocate labor …
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payoffs on cooperation, focusing on one-shot PD games where efficiency requires mutual cooperation. We report results from …
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of errors in strategy implementation. In our data, we show that players indeed choose less lenient strategies in …
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We develop a standard search-matching model in which mobility costs are so high that it is too costly for workers to relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in equilibrium, wages increase with distance to jobs and commuting costs because firms need to compensate...
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We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her...
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This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs … production technologies. Finally, in an extension we derive a tax scheme that restores efficiency and we show how workers …
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The Student Right-to-Know Act requires colleges to provide institution-specific information on graduation rates for students initially enrolling full-time in the fall term. Not all students, however, initially enroll full-time or in the fall term. We use longitudinal data on academic,...
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longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … firm efficiency occurs across almost all industries and firm types: large or small; state or private; domestic or foreign …-owned. Changes in firm ownership type have no impact on firm efficiency. Rather, competitive pressures that sort out inefficient …
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economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …
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