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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms

Bahar, Dany - 2018

Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I … role in the location strategies of multinational corporations. …

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Spatial Interactions

Kim, Jun Sung; Patacchini, Eleonora; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2022

This paper studies how the strength of social ties are affected by the geographical location of other individuals and …

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No Place like Home: Place-Based Attachments and Regional Science

Winters, John V. - 2022

Place-based attachments are important but often overlooked. Place-based attachments can be beneficial but often harm individuals tied to struggling areas. In this address, I discuss my own education and migration experiences and then more generally discuss sense of belonging as a friction to...

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The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the evidence against finding adverse effects of …

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Economic Behavior of Children and Adolescents - A First Survey of Experimental Economics Results

Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, Claudia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2018

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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Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Miguel, Edward - 2019

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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Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology

Bonin, Holger; Patxot, Concepció - 2004

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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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003

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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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Bonin, Holger; Arnds, Pascal - 2003

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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Determinants of poverty during transition: household survey evidence from Ukraine

Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; … - 2007

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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