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The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and women during their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, which integrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages are endogenously...
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of OLS and IV estimates also indicates negative selection into volunteering for both genders. In a model of optimal … volunteering, negative selection implies that a reduction in the cost of volunteering will lead to an expanded and higher …
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experience. The results also indicate negative selection into unpaid work. In a simple model of optimal volunteering, negative … selection implies that a lower cost of volunteering would produce both an expanded and higher-skilled pool of volunteers, and …
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regardless of compliance with the second-stage task. To test this we design and implement a field experiment on volunteering. The … compound-task mechanism reported volunteering systematically more than those who participated in alternative mechanisms we …
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects – friend versus stranger – and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find – consistent with Leider et al....
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Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects - friend versus stranger - and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find - consistent with Leider et al. (2009) -...
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We examine dictator giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cairo. Giving to a stranger and to a friend is positively correlated, and more altruistic dictators increase their giving less under non-anonymity. However, friends’ altruistic preferences are not significantly correlated.
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these motivations using data from a series of common pool resource experiments conducted in three regions of Colombia. As …
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Laboratory experiments are an important methodology in economics, especially in the field of behavioral economics …. However, it is still debated to what extent results from laboratory experiments can be applied to field settings. One highly … important question with respect to the external validity of experiments is whether the same individuals act in experiments as …
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The purpose of this study is to assess the degree of employment discrimination against young people in the Ile-de-France region according to their place of residence by considering several spatial scales in order to measure the effect of the reputation of the administrative department or county...
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