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This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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We present a model of bargaining in which a committee searches over the policy space, successively amending the default … by voting over proposals. Bargaining ends when proposers are unable or unwilling to amend the existing default, which is …
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We study the microstructure of the U.S. housing market using a novel data set comprising housing search and bargaining …-react to information shocks in estimating the sales price. Last, we find that the bargaining outcomes are influenced by … explained by existing theories, in affecting bargaining power and surplus allocation in bilateral bargaining in housing …
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I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction …
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constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers interact with a lobby through a bargaining process and with voters by means of … elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining …
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nonunionized firms. However, little research has been devoted to examining the implications of ESOPs for collective bargaining or … involve a strike. We examine these predictions using U.S. bargaining data from 1970 to 1995. The data suggest that ESOPs do … improved bargaining efficiency, we find that the announcement of a union ESOP leads to a 50 percent larger stock market …
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The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage and employment are … wage is determined via bargaining and employment determined subsequently and unilaterally by the firm. This paper reports … an experiment in which the choice of the bargaining agenda is endogenous within a noncooperative game. We find that …
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We present a model of bargaining in which a committee searches over the policy space, successively amending the default … by voting over proposals. Bargaining ends when proposers are unable or unwilling to amend the existing default, which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535532
We report results from a replication of Solnick (2001), which finds using an ultimatum game that, in relation to males, more is demanded from female proposers and less is offered to female responders. We conduct Solnick's (2001) game using participants from a large US university and a large...
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bilateral bargaining process. We demonstrate that home sellers and home buyers follow different rounding-off heuristics. While … bilateral bargaining behavior in the U.S. housing market …
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