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Asymmetric discouragement in asymmetric contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016

We provide new experimental evidence which suggests an asymmetric discouragement effect in lottery contests with heterogeneous abilities. Compared to a symmetric contest, subjects invest less effort when facing a stronger opponent, but they invest the same when facing a weaker opponent. Our...

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Asymmetric discouragement in asymmetric contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2016

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...

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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations

Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...

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Don't touch my road : evidence from india on affirmative action and everyday discrimination

Girard, Victoire - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 103 (2018), pp. 1-13

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Affirmative action and its persistent effects : a new perspective

Miller, Conrad - In: California management review 61 (2019) 3, pp. 19-33

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Asian discrimination in the coronavirus era: implications for business formation and survival

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina; Wang, Chunbei - 2021

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as … customer and employer 'taste discrimination'. The pandemic has also proven particularly harmful on businesses owned by recently …

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How many correspondence tests are enough to detect discrimination among single agents? : a longitudinal study on the Belgian real estate market

Verhaeghe, Pieter-Paul; Van der Bracht, Koen - 2020

Correspondence tests have been used by scholars and civil rights organizations to measure ethnic discrimination. In … contrast to research testing covering a whole market through many discrimination tests, litigation testing typically targets a … methodological challenges to disentangle systematic discrimination from random treatment. This study examines from a purely …

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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? : evidence from the U.S. social security reforms

Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020

discrimination laws moderated these spillovers, using variation whereby many state laws are broader or stronger than federal law. We … stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability …

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Touch thee not : group conflict, caste power, and untouchability in rural India

Dasgupta, Indraneel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2018

We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...

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