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Bridging the digital divide in the G20 : skills for the new age
Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2017
The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724528
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Bridging the digital divide in the G20 : skills for the new age
Chetty, Krish; Aneja, Urvashi; Mishra, Vidisha; Gcora, … - 2018
The digital divide in general, and between women and men in particular, is a manifestation of exclusion, poverty and inequality, and is likely to continue because of the effects of unemployment, poorly functioning digital skilling programmes and socio-cultural norms in some economies, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824149
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Predicting US bank failures with internet search volume data
Schaffner, Florian - 2015 - This version: December 2015
This study investigates how well weekly Google search volumes track and predict bank failures in the United States between 2007 and 2012, contributing to the expanding literature that exploits internet data for the prediction of events. Different duration models with time-varying covariates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410224
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Politisches Informationsverhalten: Gespräche und traditionelle Medien liegen vorn
Schüler, Ruth M.; Niehues, Judith; Diermeier, Matthias - 2021
Seit Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie haben sich in den sozialen Medien verschiedenste Verschwörungserzählungen ausgebreitet. Weiterhin werden traditionelle Medien im Allgemeinen stärker genutzt und als deutlich glaubwürdiger eingeschätzt als soziale Medien. Dies zeigt eine Auswertung der im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420695
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Politisches Informationsverhalten : Gespräche und traditionelle Medien liegen vorn
Schüler, Ruth M.; Niehues, Judith; Diermeier, Matthias - 2021
Seit Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie haben sich in den sozialen Medien verschiedenste Verschwörungserzählungen ausgebreitet. Weiterhin werden traditionelle Medien im Allgemeinen stärker genutzt und als deutlich glaubwürdiger eingeschätzt als soziale Medien. Dies zeigt eine Auswertung der im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417534
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'Now that You Mention It' : A Survey Experiment on Information, Salience and Online Privacy
Marreiros, Helia - 2016
online companies. In many cases, consumers have incomplete information about the digital transactions of their data. This … participants adopt a more conservative stance on disclosing identifiable information, such as name and email, even when they are … benefits of disclosing personal information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996793
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Cheap Talk with the Bayesian Truth Serum
Lee, Jae Joon - 2023
Biased responses in survey studies could seriously harm and mislead our economic decision-making. To mitigate survey response bias, we suggest an alternative way of combining two existing strategies, cheap talk and the Bayesian Truth Serum (BTS). In our three proof-of-concept experiments, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343660
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Liability, insurance and the incentive to obtain information about risk
Bajtelsmit, Vickie; Thistle, Paul D. - In: The Geneva risk and insurance review 40 (2015) 2, pp. 171-193
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Norms, incentives and information in income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2015
insured individuals. Thus, the functioning of social norms depends crucially on information, in particular on what norm … enforcers are able to observe about an insured individual's behavior. Information is also decisive when distinguishing between …
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Do people value more informative news?
Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2019
We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the … information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …
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