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Moral entitlements and aspiration formation in asymmetric bargaining : experimental evidence from Germany and China
Hennig-Schmidt, Heike; Walkowitz, Gari - In: Games 8 (2017) 4, pp. 1-25
Using a unique experimental data set, we investigate how asymmetric legal rights shape bargainers’ aspiration levels through moral entitlements derived from equity norms and number prominence. Aspiration formation is typically hard to observe in real life. Our study involves 15 negotiations...
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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...
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Early-Life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust Among Adults : Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979593
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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design : Is There a Neeskens-Effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2021
We document an increase in the scoring probability from penalties in soccer, which separates the time period before 1974 significantly from that after 1976: the scoring probability increased by 11%. We explain this finding by arguing that the institution of penalty-shooting before 1974 is best...
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance recent increases in cross-sectional wage inequality. We apply RIF (recentered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294700
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Inequality and Extremist Voting: Evidence from Germany
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian - 2018
This paper studies the impact of economic inequality on political polarization. Using a unique dataset covering … different measures of regional income inequality as well as federal and state election outcomes at the county level in Germany …, we investigate whether inequality influences the share of votes for right-wing and left-wing extremist parties using …
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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany: A machine learning approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012196430
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Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Bastianelli, Elena; Blaskó, Zsuzsa - 2020
Policies supporting international student mobility prepare young people for the challenges of global and multicultural environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their positive impacts on career progression....
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Markups for consumers
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Kann, Alexander; Tsanko, Ilona - 2020
factor to changes of inequality in society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387884
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The evolution of inequality of opportunity in Germany: A machine learning approach
Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020
We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876033