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Retaining the thin blue line : what shapes workers' intentions not to quit the current work environment
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers' intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that...
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The relationship between stress, strain and social capital
Gächter, Martin; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social capital in reducing the negative externalities associated with stress, as well as the physical and psychological strain indicators among police officers. Despite the fact that there is a large multidisciplinary literature on stress or on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736620
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No need for more time : intertemporal allocation decisions under time pressure
Lindner, Florian; Rose, Julia - 2016
confounding effects of time pressure, as proposed by dual-systems theory (Evans, 2006; Kahneman and Frederick, 2002). Results of …. Embedding our results in dual-systems theory, how information is presented can serve as a potential means to exogenously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523286
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Truth, trust, and sanctions : on institutional selection in sender-receiver games
Peeters, Ronald; Vorsatz, Marc; Walzl, Markus - 2011
We conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate the impact of institutions and institutional choice on truth-telling and trust in sender-receiver games. We find that in an institution with sanctioning opportunities, receivers sanction predominantly after having trusted lies. Individuals who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737511
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Household decision making in rural China : using experiments to estimate the influences of spouses
Carlsson, Frederik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping - 2010
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses? relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...
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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472164
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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013
involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …
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Economic origins of cultural norms : the case of animal husbandry and bastardy
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2017
marriage today. To establish causality, we exploit, within an IV approach, variation in the local agricultural suitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714551
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment e.ects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
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Effects of employee social capital on wage satisfaction, job satisfaction and organizational commitment
Hauser, Christoph - 2015
The article proposes that basic social attitudes and associational networks of employees influence their interaction with coworkers and managers at the workplace and thereby also shape work attitudes and behavior. Two terms are introduced to analyze this hypothesis: Civic Social Capital...
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