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Is Beer Safer than Spirits? How the Change in Consumption Shares of Alcoholic Beverage Types Affects Traffic Mortality in Young People
Freeman, Donald G. - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 61 (2012) 4
This paper uses cross-state and cross-regional time series to estimate the effect of the variation in shares of alcohol beverage types on traffic fatalities in young people, with particular emphasis on consumption of beer versus spirits, or “hard liquorâ€. Depending on the...
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Targeting college students on Facebook? How to stop wasting your money
Sashittal, Hemant C.; Sriramachandramurthy, Rajendran; … - In: Business Horizons 55 (2012) 5, pp. 495-507
While Facebook usage has seen explosive growth, scant research has explored returns on advertising dollars marketers … advertising dollars consumer goods firms spend on Facebook are likely wasted. This study highlights that, in addition to staying … in touch with friends and relatives, Facebook users are primarily motivated by three desires: (1) to voyeuristically peer …
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Inequalities between men and women in nutrition and family welfare services: an in-depth enquiry in an Indian village.
Khan, M. E; R, Anker; Dastidar, Ghosh; K, S.; S, Bairathi - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1987
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Diffusion and spatial equilibrium of a social norm: voting participation in the United States, 1920–2008
Coleman, Stephen - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 3, pp. 1769-1783
Social conformity can spread social norms and behaviors through a society. This research examines such a process geographically and over time for voting, which is strongly influenced by the norm that citizens should vote. A mathematical model for the spread of voting participation under the...
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ODE TO THE SEA: WORKPLACE ORGANIZATIONS AND NORMS OF COOPERATION
Leibbrandt, Andreas; Gneezy, Uri; List, John A. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate social activities. Empirical evidence on how such norms emerge and in which environments they thrive remain a clear void in the literature. To provide an initial set of...
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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
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Replicator Dynamics of Symmetric Ultimatum Game
Miękisz, Jacek; Ramsza, Michał - In: Dynamic Games and Applications 2 (2012) 2, pp. 258-268
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Sampling Dynamics of a Symmetric Ultimatum Game
Miękisz, Jacek; Ramsza, Michał - In: Dynamic Games and Applications 3 (2013) 3, pp. 374-386
We propose a dynamic three-strategy symmetric model of the Ultimatum Game with players using a sampling procedure. We allow an intermediate strategy, interpreted as a social norm, to evolve in time according to beliefs of players about an average offer. We show that a social norm converges to a...
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The effect of tax privacy on tax compliance: An experimental investigation
Blaufus, Kay; Bob, Jonathan; Otto, Philipp E. - arqus - Arbeitskreis Quantitative Steuerlehre - 2014
In this paper, a tax game with audit costs as a public bad is designed to investigate the impact of public disclosure on tax evasion experimentally. Three different types of tax privacy are tested, ranging from complete privacy to full disclosure. We expect to observe two different effects:...
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SOCIAL STANDARDS AS FUNCTIONAL LANDMARKS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL SPHERE
IEVSIEIEVA O.O. - In: ВІСНИК ЕКОНОМІКИ ТРАНСПОРТУ І … (2011) 3, pp. 375-378
It is social standards not social minimums are grounded in the article to be applied while planning the development of social sphere. There has been stated that it is necessary to revise the existing legislation base of adjusting of social standards and social guarantees and bringing those in...
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