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Engel, Christoph - 2010

Over the last 25 years, more than a hundred dictator game experiments have been published. This meta study summarizes the evidence. Exploiting the fact that most experiments had to fix parameters they did not intend to test, the meta study explores a rich set of control variables for...

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The economics of child well-being

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012

This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...

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Tax Perception : an empirical survey

Fochmann, Martin; Kiesewetter, Dirk; Blaufus, Kay; … - 2010

This paper gives a survey of the experimental literature on the perception (bias) of individuals with respect to their own tax burden and its effect on economic decisions. Six strands of literature are discussed: (1) perception of marginal tax rates, (2) influence of tax complexity on tax...

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Behavioral economics of education : progress and possibilities

Lavecchia, Adam; Liu, Heidi; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2015

Behavioral economics attempts to integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and sociology in order to better predict individual outcomes and develop more effective policy. While the field has been successfully applied to many areas, education has, so far, received less attention - a...

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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009

We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …

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Immigrants in risky occupations

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012

This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a more detailed discussion of the empirical evidence on the subject, which reaches several...

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The economics of circular migration

Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor … characteristics of circular movers worldwide and investigates the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Recent policy … ; international migration ; remittances …

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Human smuggling

Friebel, Guido; Guriev, Sergej - 2012

Despite its importance in global illegal migration, there is little, and mostly theoretical research on human smuggling … interactions in the smuggling market, and, hence, migration flows. We review the theoretical work, point to the scarce empirical … evidence, and identify challenges for future theoretical, empirical work and policy advice. -- illegal migration ; trafficking …

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The evaluation of immigration policies

Rinne, Ulf - 2012

identifies avenues for future research. -- migration ; program evaluation ; immigrant selection ; settlement policy …

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