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continual political upheavals, African national identity is not as strong as racial ties. However, every functioning social …
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Reputation systems that rely on feedback from traders are important institutions for helping sustain trust in markets, while feedback information is usually considered a public good. We apply both theoretical models and experiments to study how raters' feedback behavior responds to different...
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We design a laboratory experiment to illuminate the channels through which relatively more attractive individuals …
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interacts both with the interlocutors present, considered to share the speaker’s national and religious identity and with … politician’s identity is negotiated in discourse through the interplay of hypostases of identity and alterity. Their linguistic …
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phenotype. This process provides a natural experiment for appraising the relative importance of acculturation, discrimination …, and income inequality. I use data from two periods, 1979 and 1989, to determine the stability of identity formation among … acculturating into a non-Hispanic white racial identity. However, neither the abandonment of Spanish nor the abandonment of a …
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This paper argues that whether genetic modification of crops is seen as radically different or simply a further step of ‘traditional’ breeding techniques affects the perception of the associated benefits and risks of their commercialisation and the wider context scrutinised to assess...
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In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage …
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Economic experiments have shown that when given the choice between piece-rate and winner-take-all tournament style compensation, women are more reluctant than men to choose tournaments. These gender difference experiments have all relied on a similar framework where subjects were not informed of...
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In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we …
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In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we scan … reported to predict competitiveness in sports competition (Manning and Taylor, 2001, and Hoenekopp, Manning and Mueller, 2006 …
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