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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597131
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The framing of games and the psychology of strategic choice
Dufwenberg, Martin (contributor);  … - 2006
Psychological game theory can provide a rational choice explanation of framing effects; frames influence beliefs, and beliefs influence motivations. We explain this point theoretically, and explore its empirical relevance experimentally. In a 2×2-factorial framing design of one-shot public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385854
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Is There Wealth Stability Across Generations in the U.S.? Evidence from Panel Study, 1984-2017
Toney, Jermaine - 2021
The net wealth accumulation of (grand)parents appears to be strongly determinative of the net wealth holdings of their adult (grand)children. While these general features are understood, few details are known about the persistence of wealth components that determine overall portfolio outcomes...
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Partisan Interactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2015
Since campaign contributions reveal the actor’s party leanings, they take place in a domain of social observation and are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We sent letters to 92,000 contributors from all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146325
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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017
Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688211
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes : Impacts of Outreach
Viceisza, Angelino C. G.; Calhoun, Amaia; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review select literature on racial and ethnic disparities in retirement outcomes and the impact of outreach on such outcomes. First, there are significant disparities in retirement outcomes, reflecting a long history of racism and structural barriers. Second, there is comparatively little...
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Ambition and jealousy. Income Interactions in the "old" Europe versus The "New" Europe and the United States
Senik, Claudia - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2005
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly concentrates on the relation between satisfaction and reference income (defined as the income of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876150
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Social norms and energy conservation beyond the US
Andor, Mark Andreas; Gerster, Andreas; Peters, Jörg; … - 2017
The seminal studies by Allcott and Mullainathan (2010), Allcott (2011), and Allcott and Rogers (2014) suggest that social comparison-based home energy reports (HER) are a cost-effective non-price intervention to stimulate energy conservation. The present paper demonstrates the context-dependency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734802
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The divorce revolution and generalized trust : evidence from the United States 1973 - 2010
Viitanen, Tarja - 2014
This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the … unilateral divorce reforms across the US. According to the results, the divorce revolution seems to have had some effect on trust … effects for women with an additional year of exposure being associated with a 4 percentage point lower generalized trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247345
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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution : evidence from performance measures
Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689037