inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in nineteenth-century Prussia. Formally the landed elite could have inuenced … not only the labor relations with the peasants but also their marriage decisions. Using cross-sectional as well as panel … analysis we find no evidence that noble landowners directly affected marriage rates. Instead we find a robust negative …

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even … implementation to allocations that are supportable given the effect of incentives on preferences. -- public goods ; behavioural … experiments ; social preferences ; second best ; motivational crowding ; explicit incentives …