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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - 2022
People's value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014329721
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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
Dur, Robert; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...
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Experience and perception of social mobility: A cross-country test of the self-serving bias
Weber, Nina - 2020
Perceptions of social mobility in society are one of the most important determinants of individuals' preferences for redistribution and tolerance for economic inequalities. What shapes these perceptions is however so far little understood. In this paper, I propose and empirically test a...
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Experience of social mobility and support for redistribution: Accepting or blaming the system?
Weber, Nina - 2023
Using cross-country survey data and a survey experiment, I examine the effects of experienced social mobility on support for redistribution. In line with the self-serving bias, those with negative mobility experiences 'blame the system' and extrapolate from their experience onto society, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014293759
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The introduction of formal insurance and its effect on redistribution
Anderberg, Dan; Marsink, Karlijn - 2019
Transfers motivated by altruism, norms of giving, and guilt play an important role in supporting individuals who suffer … norm of giving where donors feel guilty for deviating from the norm. The feelings of guilt decline with the expected social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018287
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Psychological and Social Motivations in Microfinance Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Arshad, Junaid; al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2019
either privately, or publicly in front of one’s social group. Our theoretical model identifies guilt from letting down the … large treatment effects and confirms the central roles of guilt and shame. Under private repayment, a JL contract increases … compared to guilt-aversion. Under IL, repayment in public relative to private repayment increases effort by 60%, confirming our …
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Meta-Analysis of Inequality Aversion Estimates
Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Massimiliano - 2022
) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26 articles in economics, psychology, neuroscience and computer … interval [0:240; 0:620]; the mean guilt coefficient is 0:290 with a 95% probability that the true value lies in the interval [0 …
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit: Experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2008
This paper draws a link between self-control problems and the contractual mechanisms of microcredit. We use a series of lab experiments in the field which were designed to elicit measures of time discounting on a sample of 573 individuals in rural Karnataka, India. Evidence from the experiments...
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The effects of financial literacy training: Evidence from a field experiment in German high schools
Winter, Joachim; Lührmann, Melanie; Serra Garcia, Marta - 2013
We report the results of a field experiment evaluating the impact of financial literacy training on teenagers between 14 and 16 years in German high schools. After the training, treated teenagers exhibit a significant increase in both interest in financial matters and self-assessed knowledge...
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