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Inertia and Incentives : Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory
Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2009
organizational economics and on cognition in organizational theory, we build a framework for the analysis of incentives that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767471
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Rationing the Commons
Ryan, Nicholas; Sudarshan, Anant - 2022
Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308483
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Do Religious Proscriptions Matter? Evidence from a Theory-Based Test
Hungerman, Daniel M. - 2011
A large literature shows that religious participation is associated with a wide range of behaviors and outcomes, but what drives this association is unclear. On the one hand, this association may stem from correlations in preferences, where those with tastes for religion coincidentally have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120984
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Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly : Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?
Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2010
Do adult children affect the care elderly parents provide each other? We develop two models in which the anticipated behavior of adult children provides incentives for elderly parents to increase care for their disabled spouses. The quot;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758396
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Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination : An Identification Problem
Bohren, J. Aislinn - 2019
Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination as either taste-based or statistical—a valuable distinction for policy design and welfare analysis. In this paper, we highlight that in many situations economic agents may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868737
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Risky Behavior Among Youths : An Economic Analysis
Gruber, Jonathan - 2021
There are a host of potentially risky behaviors in which youth engage, which have important implications for both their well being as youth and their life prospects. The past decade has seen dramatic shifts in the intensity with which youths pursue these risky activities: for example, youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234927
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Self-Confidence and Social Interactions
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2021
This paper studies the interactions between an individual's self esteem and his social environment in the workplace, at school, and in personal relationships. Because a person generally has only imperfect knowledge of his own abilities, people who derive benefits from his performance (parent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237549
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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions
Manski, Charles F. - 2021
rigor of modern economic analysis. Major theoretical developments in game theory, the economics of the family, and … endogenous growth theory have taken place. Economists have also performed new empirical research on social interactions, but the … empirical literature does not show progress comparable to that achieved in economic theory. This paper examines why and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239146
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"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited : An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-Economic Status to Health
Stowasser, Till - 2011
Much has been said about the stylized fact that the economically successful are not only wealthier but also healthier than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there remains a vivid debate about its source. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121729
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Who Owns Children and Does it Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice - 2010
Is there an economic rationale for pronatalist policies? In this paper we propose and analyze a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The friction we investigate is related to the ownership of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148673