The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases forevaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they areaccurate, contain a large number...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of payoff distortion inthe standard prisoner’s dilemma game when strategies are driven by psychologicalbehaviors. This concept enables to take account each player’s assessmentof the other player’s behavior and the asymmetry of information....

Der Einsatz von experimenteller Ökonomie zur Überprüfung von theoretischen Zusammenhängenhat gezeigt, dass viele dieser Zusammenhänge in der Praxis nicht bestätigtwerden konnten. ...

This paper examines whether and how socio-economic status is associated withchildren’s behavioural development in today’s children. Using a large cohort ofEnglish children born in the early 1990s we find significant social inequalities inseveral dimensions of child behaviour at age 7. We...

Empirical evidence suggests that the natural-resource curse operates through the behaviorof the political elite, yet there are few models that convincingly illustrate the mechanismat work. I present a model where natural-resource abundance generates power struggles,thereby increasing the...

Existing evidence showed that:- local environmental problems are widespread but worse in low-income areas- there is little evidence that wider environmental concerns are less in low-incomecommunities- residents in low-income areas often face different barriers and incentives for action fromthose...

This paper is concerned with the effect of nonmonetary incentiveson behavior, in particular with the study of social pressure as adeterminant of corruption. We offer empirical evidence that shows howprofessional soccer referees favor home teams in order to satisfy thecrowds in the stadium....

We exploit an incentive change in professional soccer leagues aimed at encouraging more attacking and goal scoring to obtain evidence on the effect ofstronger incentives on productive and destructive effort. Using as control thebehavior of the same teams in a competition that experienced no...

Behavoiral finance as a subdiscipline of behavorial economics is finance incorporating findings from psychology and sociology into its theories.

...In this paper, we tackle all these difficulties by conducting a full geomatrical analysis of the comparative statics of general models...