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Essays on development and behavior economics : an impact evaluation of the “Bolsa Família” - conditional cash transfer on education and the effect of leadership identity on group c...
Schaffland, Elke Rosemarie - 2014
The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called Bolsa Família. We analyze the impacts of the program on two educational outcomes: enrollment and attendance. In our analysis we consider...
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Culture, knowledge and risks : insights from rural Vietnam
Huong Dien Pham - 2018
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Gravity model applications and macroeconomic perspectives
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013
This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...
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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
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On locus of control in empirical microeconomics
Hennecke, Juliane - 2019
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Personality and migration : a study of decision-making processes in a geo-referenced framework
Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2017
Geo-referenced migration analysis, spatial decision-making processes, personality. - Georeferenzierte Migrationsanalyse …
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The effect of leader and follower personality on work processes - analysing the influence of humility and narcissism
Dekker, Hannah - 2018
, the dissertation focuses on these two personality traits and examines their effect on the leader-follower interaction and … followers’ trust in leader, whereas explicit (i.e., self-reported) humility does not. These findings show that measurement … aspects are of critical importance when assessing personality characteristics such as humility that might be prone to socially …
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Analyse compréhensive du comportement opportuniste des acteurs sur les plateformes de co-création
Boukouyen, Fatiha - 2020
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Zur Manipulierbarkeit der Allokation öffentlicher Güter : theoretische Analyse und Simulationsergebnisse
Lindner, Tobias - 2011
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Aufteilung eines Budgets auf mehrere öffentliche Güter mittels einer Abstimmung. Hierzu betrachten wir Abstimmungsregeln, unter denen jeder Agent eine Budgetaufteilung vorschlägt und dann aus diesen Vorschlägen eine Budgetaufteilung (Allokation) bestimmt...
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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
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