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IDENTIFYING SOCIAL NORMS USING COORDINATION GAMES: WHY DOES DICTATOR GAME SHARING VARY? by Krupka, Erin L., Weber, Roberto A.

“…We introduce an incentivized elicitation method for identifying social norms that uses simple coordination games. We demonstrate that concern for the norms we…”
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PREFERENCES FOR REDISTRIBUTION AND PERCEPTION OF FAIRNESS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY by Durante, Ruben, Putterman, Louis, van der Weele, Joël

“…We conduct a laboratory experiment to study how demand for redistribution of income depends on self-interest, insurance motives, and social concerns relating…”
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DO BETTER PAID POLITICIANS PERFORM BETTER? DISENTANGLING INCENTIVES FROM SELECTION by Gagliarducci, Stefano, Nannicini, Tommaso

“…The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled…”
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RELATIONSHIP LENDING DURING A FINANCIAL CRISIS by Sette, Enrico, Gobbi, Giorgio

“…This paper studies whether relationship lending mitigates the transmission of the Lehman default shock to the supply of credit in Italy. Exploiting the…”
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EXPONENTIAL-GROWTH BIAS AND LIFECYCLE CONSUMPTION by Levy, Matthew, Tasoff, Joshua

“…Exponential-growth bias (EGB) is the tendency for individuals to partially neglect compounding of exponential growth. We develop a model wherein biased agents…”
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NEEDS VERSUS ENTITLEMENTS—AN INTERNATIONAL FAIRNESS EXPERIMENT by Cappelen, Alexander W., Moene, Karl O., Sørensen, Erik Ø., Tungodden, Bertil

“…What is the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social preferences? To study this question, we conducted a real-effort…”
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EVOLVING INTERNATIONAL INFLATION DYNAMICS: WORLD AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC FACTORS by Mumtaz, Haroon, Surico, Paolo

“…The decline in the level and persistence of inflation over the 1980s is a common feature of the most industrialized economies in the world. The rise in…”
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COMMENT: ON ESTIMATING ELASTICITIES OF SUBSTITION by Borjas, George J., Grogger, Jeffrey, Hanson, Gordon H.

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EGO UTILITY, OVERCONFIDENCE, AND TASK CHOICE by Köszegi, Botond

“…This paper models behavior when a decision maker cares about and manages her self-image. In addition to having preferences over material outcomes, the agent…”
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Job market signaling of relative position, or Becker married to Spence by Hopkins, Ed

“…"This paper considers a matching model of the labor market where workers, who have private information on their quality, signal to firms that also differ in…”
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A POLITICAL ECONOMY THEORY OF FISCAL POLICY AND UNEMPLOYMENT by Battaglini, Marco, Coate, Stephen

“…This paper presents a political economy theory of fiscal policy and unemployment. The underlying economy is one in which unemployment can arise but can be…”
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PRODUCT MARKET REGULATION, FIRM SELECTION, AND UNEMPLOYMENT by Felbermayr, Gabriel, Prat, Julien

“…This paper analyzes the effect of product market regulation (PMR) on unemployment in a search model with heterogeneous multiple‐worker firms. In our setup, PMR…”
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MEASURING SELF-CONTROL PROBLEMS: A STRUCTURAL ESTIMATION by Bucciol, Alessandro

“…We adopt a two-stage Method of Simulated Moments to estimate the preference parameters in a life-cycle consumption-saving model augmented with temptation…”
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DOES IDIOSYNCRATIC BUSINESS RISK MATTER FOR GROWTH? by Michelacci, Claudio, Schivardi, Fabiano

“…Several imperfections can prevent entrepreneurs from diversifying away the idiosyncratic risk of their business. As a result idiosyncratic risk discourages…”
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WHEN IS COMMUNITY-BASED MONITORING EFFECTIVE? EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT IN PRIMARY HEALTH IN UGANDA by Björkman, Martina, Svensson, Jakob

“…Evidence from recent randomized field experiments on community-based monitoring reveals substantial heterogeneous treatment effects. Using data from a…”
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The Adjustment of Labor Markets to Robots by Dauth, Wolfgang, Findeisen, Sebastian, Suedekum, Jens, Woessner, Nicole

“…Abstract We use detailed administrative data to study the adjustment of local labor markets to industrial robots in Germany. Robot exposure, as predicted by a…”
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What works? A meta analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations by Card, David, Kluve, Jochen, Weber, Andrea

“…We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group,…”
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Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime by Müller, Karsten, Schwarz, Carlo

“…Abstract This paper investigates the link between social media and hate crime. We show that antirefugee sentiment on Facebook predicts crimes against refugees…”
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MORE MISSING WOMEN, FEWER DYING GIRLS: THE IMPACT OF SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION ON SEX AT BIRTH AND RELATIVE FEMALE MORTALITY IN TAIWAN: More Missing Women, Fewer Dying Girls by Lin, Ming-Jen, Liu, Jin-Tan, Qian, Nancy

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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations by Mengel, Friederike, Sauermann, Jan, Zölitz, Ulf

“…This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university…”
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