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Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending

Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017

We construct a dedicated web interface and use it to conduct a laboratory experiment to study willingness to lend and preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related...

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Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects

Landini, Fabio; Montinari, Natalia; Pin, Paolo; … - 2014

We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parents' network has a...

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Whom to lobby? Targeting in political networks

Groll, Thomas; Prummer, Anja - 2016

higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …

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Gender & collaboration

Ductor, Lorenzo; Goyal, Sanjeev; Prummer, Anja - 2018

more senior co-authors. Standard models of homophily and discrimination cannot account for these differences. We discuss …

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Gender homophily, collaboration, and output

Prummer, Anja; Ductor, Lorenzo - 2023

We consider the implications of gender homophily in Economics, which has persisted despite the significant increase in … women in the field. As women remain underrepresented, gender homophily may serve as a constraint in collaboration. It could …. We show that gender homophily neither constrains collaboration nor prevents higher quality output. …

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Arbitrariness in the peer review process

Brezis, Elise S.; Birukou, Aliaksandr - 2019

homophily in their taste and perception of innovative ideas. The second element is that reviewers are different in the time they …

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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Stock Market Volatility: A Causality Check

Raunig, Burkhard - 2021

Using causal graphs, this paper develops a simple check to uncover the direction of the causal link between economic policy uncertainty and stock market volatility. The check is applied to monthly data for 22 countries. The results imply that uncertainty is an instantaneous cause of stock market...

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Measuring effects of second wave activation: A theoretical model and tutorial for activation programme evaluation

Ulmestig, Rickard; Waernbaum, Ingeborg - 2023

This article develops a theoretical model for evaluating mandatory activation of welfare recipients in complex activation programmes. The model aims to summarize and describe heterogeneous content that is difficult to comprehend because of local variations, staff characteristics, or other...

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Semi-parametric estimation of multi-valued treatment effects for the treated: Estimating equations and sandwich estimators

Zetterqvist, Johan; Waernbaum, Ingeborg - 2020

An estimand of interest in empirical studies with observational data is the average treatment effect of a multi-valued treatment in the treated subpopulation. We demonstrate three estimation approaches: outcome regression, inverse probability weighting and inverse probability weighted...

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On statistical methods for labor market evaluation under interference between units

Karlsson, Maria; Lundin, Mathias - 2016

Evaluation studies aim to provide answers to important questions like: How does this program or policy intervention affect the outcome variables of interest? In order to answer such questions, using the traditional statistical evaluation (or causal inference) methods, some conditions must be...

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