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Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice : Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest

Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010

This paper documents the presence of non-economic career motivations in the U.S. labor market, explores reasons why such motivations could arise, and provides an explanation for why they might have persisted across many generations. The analysis links ethnic (migrant) labor market networks in...

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Are Americans and Indians More Altruistic than the Japanese and Chinese? Evidence from a New International Survey of Bequest Plans

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2014

desire for dynasty building) and shows that these assumptions have very different implications for bequest motives and … bequest division. After reviewing some of the literature on actual bequests, bequest motives, and bequest division, the paper … presents data on the strength of bequest motives, stated bequest motives, and bequest division plans from a new international …

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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement in China's Secondary Schools?

Ding, Weili - 2010

from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the …

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The Revealed Preference of the Chinese Communist Party Leadership : Investing in Local Economic Development Versus Rewarding Social Connections

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2018

park site selection and document the willingness of China's provincial leaders to sacrifice economic development in order …

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Stock Option Exercise and Gift Exchange Relationships : Evidence for a Large Us Company

Cappelli, Peter - 2011

We investigate gift exchange relationships in real jobs, making use of a field quasi-experiment associated with the exercise of stock options for roughly 4500 managers in a large public company. In this company, option grants are set equally for all employees within occupational categories, and...

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You Owe Me

Malmendier, Ulrike - 2012

In many cultures and industries gifts are given in order to influence the recipient, often at the expense of a third party. Examples include business gifts of firms and lobbyists. In a series of experiments, we show that, even without incentive or informational effects, small gifts strongly...

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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds Over Early U.S. Trade Policy

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2009

The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...

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Social Interactions in Pandemics : Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity

Alfaro, Laura - 2020

In SIR models, infection rates are typically exogenous, whereas individuals adjust their behavior in reality. City-level data across the globe suggest that mobility falls in response to fear, proxied by Google searches. Incorporating experimentally validated measures of social preferences at the...

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Satisfaction Guaranteed : When Moral Hazard Meets Moral Preferences

Andreoni, James - 2017

Theorists and policy analysts have convincingly argued that greater trust makes a more efficient society by eliminating costly contracts or expensive reputations. Concurrently, experiments suggest that reciprocity is a potent substitute for law when compliance with contracts is imperfectly...

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Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

Falk, Armin - 2017

This paper studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey dataset of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust from 80,000 individuals in 76...

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