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Cellular manufacturing (CM) is an important application of group technology (GT) that can be used to enhance both flexibility and efficiency in today’s small-to-medium lot production environment. The crucial step in the design of a CM system is the cell formation (CF) problem which involves...
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minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic … groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are … hypothesis that institutional changes can narrow the gender gap in competitive inclination. …
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Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the … first one, without knowledge of partner's gender and the second treatment where gender's partner is common knowledge. A …
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’ subsequent download activity, this paper uses a natural field experiment to better understand the reasons why individuals show a …
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of ALJ; (iii) gender influences social comparison preferences; (iv) participants with a greater degree of ALJ do not …
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We examine inconsistencies in preference orderings of the “more is less” kind (Alevy et al. 2011) using the Contingent valuation (CV) and the Inferred valuation (IV) method (Lusk and Norwood 2009a, 2009b). We find that when moving in a familiar market for consumers (i.e., the food market) we...
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consider the design of a two-stage experiment for estimating an average treatment effect, when covariate information is … units in the second stage of the experiment. This amounts to choosing the propensity score, the conditional probability of …
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each of the asset markets, were sufficient to cause this effect. In the second part of experiment, post hoc assessment of … risk aversion was implemented in a sample of former participants of the asset market experiment (32 persons). The presented …
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We conducted a multi-wave field experiment to study the interaction of peer effects and self-control among …
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controlled experiment at two universities in Mexico City, using uncompensated students as research subjects, found results …
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