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Aftershocks : The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services

Jacobson, Mireille - 2010

Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has affected providers' decisions to perform abortions and...

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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals

Di Tella, Rafael - 2011

We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the US over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about economic opportunities and...

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Exporting Christianity : Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of Us Denominations

Hanson, Gordon - 2011

In this paper we build a model of market competition among religious denominations, using a framework that involves incomplete contracts and the production of club goods. We treat denominations akin to multinational enterprises, which decide which countries to enter based on local market...

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Growing Up in a Recession : Beliefs and the Macroeconomy

Giuliano, Paola - 2009

Does the historical macroeconomic environment affect preferences for redistribution? We find that individuals who experienced a recession when young believe that success in life depends more on luck than effort, support more government redistribution, and tend to vote for left-wing parties. The...

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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief

Akerlof, George - 2017

This paper develops a theory of promotion based on evaluations by the already promoted. The already promoted show some favoritism toward candidates for promotion with similar beliefs, just as beetles are more prone to eat the eggs of other species. With such egg-eating bias, false beliefs may...

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Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital

Cesur, Resul - 2018

While the relationship between adverse health shocks and health care utilization has been studied extensively, next to nothing is known about the effect of health shocks on religiosity, which may serve as an alternative to secular psychological services and interventions. Filling this gap in...

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The Economics of Faith : Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field

Augenblick, Ned; Cunha, Jesse M.; Dal Bo, Ernesto; Rao, … - 2021

We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...

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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity : A Field Experiment with Airline Captains

Gosnell, Greer - 2019

Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence … regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an … management practices: (i) performance monitoring; (ii) performance feedback; (iii) target setting; and (iv) pro-social incentives …

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Peer Effects in Early Education

Neidell, Matthew - 2010

We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...

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Well-Being and Trust in the Workplace

Helliwell, John F. - 2009

example, an increase of trust in management that is about one tenth of the scale is equivalent to more than 30% increase in …

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