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Don't Patronize Me! An Experiment on Preferences for Authorship
Lübbecke, Silvia; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2019
Do people only reject interference and keep control in order to affect the outcome? We find that 20% of subjects reject unrequired help and insist on their solution to a problem – although doing so is costly and does not change the result. We tease out the motives by varying the information...
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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018
The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984621
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Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth
Davies, Benjamin; Maré, David C. - 2019
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment … quality between geographic areas with different sizes. We examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban … dense with related activities. Relatedness and complexity appear to be most relevant for analysing how large, complex cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005924
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Women's Employment and Natural Shocks
Canessa, Eugenia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2021
We employ georeferenced data and longitudinal household panel survey data to investigate the impact of the dramatic flooding that hit Bangladesh from August-September 2014 on women's employment and empowerment. Development economics models suggest an increase in household members' labour supply...
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Commitment to self-rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271233
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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010
agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272684
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Why do individuals choose self-employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481649
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births
Zhao, Zhong; Evans, Richard W.; Hu, Yingyao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703190
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125874