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Micro-level determinants of lecture attendance and additional study-hours
Ryan, Martin; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2010
This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and additional study-hours. The data were collected through a web-survey that the authors designed....
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Study achievement for students with kids
Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; éZamac, Jovan - 2011
In this paper we explore the composition of students, the study length towards diploma, and examine the likelihood of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …
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Charitable giving among females and males: An empirical test of the competitive altruism hypothesis
Böhm, Robert; Regner, Tobias - 2012
We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291810
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Honestly, why are you donating money to charity? An experimental study about self-awareness in status- seeking behavior
Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2012
This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291831
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Targeted Advertising and Social Status
Vikander, Nick - 2011
This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325736
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Protestant Ethic, Status Seeking, and Economic Growth
Rauscher, Michael - 1997
Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319306
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Talking about the pigou paradox: Socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011
secondary high school gives access to the university, nonetheless lyceums provide students with far higher quality of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282603
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Stereotypes and Risk Attitudes: Evidence from the Lab and the Field
Leuermann, Andrea; Roth, Benjamin - 2012
Recent studies have found correlations between risk attitudes and several sociodemographic characteristics. In this paper, we deploy an artefactual fi eld experiment and study whether subjects - non-professionals and financial professionals - are aware of these correlations. This is largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422238
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Does good advice come cheap? - On the assessment of risk preferences in the lab and the field
Leuermann, Andrea; Roth, Benjamin - 2012
Advice is important for decision making, especially in the financial sector. We investigate how individuals assess risk preferences of others given sociodemographic information or pictures. Both non-professionals and fi nancial professionals participate in this artefactual field experiment....
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Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age
Christelis, Dimitris; Dobrescu, Loretti I.; Motta, Alberto - 2011
Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...
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