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This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...
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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has exploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
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Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …
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The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging intertemporal imbalance in government finances facing demographic transition. Starting from the fiscal balance rule providing the theoretical background, we review the methods of generational accountants for...
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survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a … interaction among the participants, with a survey of noninteracting respondents in a smooth and inexpensive way. We illustrate the … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …
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Die deutsche Bevölkerung durchläuft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten einen demographischen Alterungsprozess, der als erstes die Erwerbsbevölkerung erfasst. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die ökonomischen Folgen dieser Entwicklung. Direkte Arbeitsmarkteffekte einer schrumpfenden und alternden...
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The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods...
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. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …
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survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special …
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The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on...
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