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within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …
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the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …
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This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
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This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566377
broadly rather than narrowly. We find that the framing effect is significantly larger for impatient than for patient …
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National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. We aim to describe how … the data sourced from Twitter, we exploit various survey data sources, such as the Eurobarometer and consumer satisfaction …
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measures of trust in others and national institutions by applying emotion analysis to Twitter data. We test the predictive role …
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(restricted or enhanced information) and the framing (gain or loss framing) of the invitation letter to the breast cancer …
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In light of increasing health care expenditures, patient cost-sharing schemes have emerged as one of the main policy tools to reduce medical spending. We show that the effect of patient cost-sharing schemes on health care expenditures is not only determined by the economic incentives they...
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We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck in a competitive environment. Following a loss, women tend to reduce effort, and the effect is...
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