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Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect

Johansson, Per - 2006

easier to get employer contact than in the regular program. From a survey I have information about employer contacts in the …

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The effect of increased employer contacts within a labour market training program

Johansson, Per; Martinson, Sara - 2000

Using both register and survey data, two types of labour market training programs are compared. One program is part of …

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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development

Singh, Nirvikar - 2004

This paper explores potential channels through which information technology (IT) affects economic development. The channel emphasized here is the reduction of transaction costs through the use of information technology. We discuss the nature of transaction costs, their possible impacts on...

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Information Technology and Rural Development in India

Singh, Nirvikar - 2004

How can information technology (IT) contribute to rural development? What are the channels through which impacts can be realized, and what are the practical means for realizing potential benefits? This paper examines several ongoing projects that aim to provide IT-based services to rural...

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Technology, power and the political economy of inequality

Guy, Frederick; Skott, Peter - 2013

Technology can affect the distribution of income directly via its influence on both the bargaining power of different parties and the marginal product of different factors of production. This paper focuses mainly on the first route. The role of power is transparent in the case of medieval choke...

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Subprime consumer credit demand: evidence from a lender's pricing experiment

Alan, Sule; Dumitrescu, Ruxandra; Loranth, Gyongyi - 2011

We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit card company. We were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and January 2007. Access to such information is rare....

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Timing Tax Evasion

Niepelt, Dirk - 2004

Standard models of tax evasion implicitly assume that evasion is either fully detected, or not detected at all. Empirically, this is not the case, casting into doubt the traditional rationales for interior evasion choices. I propose two alternative, dynamic explanations for interior tax evasion...

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Prices and Choices in the Swiss Health Care Insurance Market

Ortiz, Yves - 2011

survey executed in 2009 which documents health care plan and insurer choices of enrollees as well as their switching behavior … survey data point to insufficient price optimization on the part of the enrollees. Aggregate data disclose an increasing gap … could have paid less on average if they had chosen their insurer randomly. Our Survey data confirm this observation: Despite …

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Does it pay to read your junk mail? Evidence of the effect of advertising on home equity credit choices

Agarwal, Sumit; Ambrose, Brent W. - 2008

We examine the effect of direct mail (commonly referred to as junk mail) advertising on individual financial decisions by studying consumer choice of home equity debt contracts. Consistent with the theoretical predictions, we find that financial variables underlying the relative pricing of debt...

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Price discrimination via the choice of distribution channels

Dulleck, Uwe; Kerschbamer, Rudolf - 2005

This article studies the use of different distribution channels as an instrument of price discrimination in credence goods markets. In credence goods markets, where consumers do not know which quality of the good or service they need, price discrimination proceeds along the dimension of quality...

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