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' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much to pay) in a natural experiment at an online music store with PWYW …%. The experiment suggests that even low levels of social pressure without face to face interaction on customers leads to a …
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wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary … students with high German language skills is not affected, students with medium German language skills are positively affected …
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Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and …-demographic information have limited predictive power in both treatments. -- artefactual field experiment ; children ; envy ; altruism …
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We conduct a natural field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms for small donations. Charitable …
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much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and … compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … is needed to identify what, then, drives the development of envy during childhood. -- artefactual field experiment …
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This paper aims at linking cross border mobility of students and graduates with the financing of higher education … costs between students / graduates and tax-payers is studied as well as the (optimal) sharing of the tax-payers ́part …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation...
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This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both truancy and attainment are measured as...
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Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio-economic background of these individuals, their...
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Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
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