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Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data
Hsiang, Solomon - 2016
-time legal sale of ivory stocks to China and Japan in 2008 was designed as an experiment, but its global impact has not been … predictions. Here we evaluate the first major global legalization experiment in an internationally banned market, where a … monitoring system established before the experiment enables us to observe the behavior of illegal suppliers before and after …
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Is the Endangered Species Act Endangering Species?
List, John A. - 2007
We develop theory and present a suite of theoretically consistent empirical measures to explore the extent to which market intervention inadvertently alters resource allocation in a sequentialmove principal/agent game. We showcase our approach empirically by exploring the extent to which the...
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Elephants
Kremer, Michael; Morcom, Charles - 2022
Existing models of open-access resources are applicable to non-storable resources, such as fish. Many open-access resources, however, are used to produce storable goods. Elephants, rhinos, and tigers are three prominent examples. Anticipated future scarcity of these resources will increase...
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Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behaviors During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Akesson, Jesper - 2020
questions, we conduct an online experiment (n = 3,610) with participants in the US and UK. Participants are randomly allocated … overestimate the infectiousness of COVID-19 relative to expert opinion. Second, providing people with expert information partially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833113
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Risk Aversion as a Perceptual Bias
Khaw, Mel - 2017
numerical cognition, and test its ability to explain the choice frequencies that we observe in a laboratory experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959374
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Understanding Trust
Sapienza, Paola - 2010
Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question quot;Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?quot; to measure the level of trust. Glaeser et al. (2000)...
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Meet the Oligarchs : Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation
Di Tella, Rafael - 2016
We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments are effective in changing trust in Major Companies and in Courts/Government. In contrast to previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977285
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Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
Dee, Thomas S. - 2021
. This study also presents empirical evidence from a laboratory experiment in which students at a selective college were …
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Social Networks Shape Beliefs and Behavior : Evidence from Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2021
We show that social network exposure to COVID-19 cases shapes individuals’ beliefs and behaviors concerning the coronavirus. We use de-identified data from Facebook to document that individuals with friends in areas with worse COVID-19 outbreaks reduce their mobility more than otherwise...
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Income-Comparison Attitudes in the Us and the UK : Evidence from Discrete-Choice Experiments
Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2016
Economists have long been aware of utility externalities such as a tendency to compare own income with others'. If welfare losses from income comparisons are significant, any governmental interventions that alter such attitudes may have large welfare consequences. We conduct an original online...
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