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Quality-Aware Tax Incentives for Charitable Contributions

Halberstam, Zachary; Hines, James R. - 2023

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Marital Sorting and Inequality: How Educational Categorization Matters

Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; … - 2023

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Incorporating Theory-Consistent Endogenous Markups into Applied General-Equilibrium Models

Markusen, James R. - 2023

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Incorporating Theory-Consistent Endogenous Markups into Applied General-Equilibrium Models

Markusen, James R. - 2023

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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design

Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Übelmesser, Silke - 2023

Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...

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Incentive and Signaling Effects of Bonus Payments : An Experiment in a Company

Deversi, Marvin; Spantig, Lisa - 2023

Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is limited as their use signals the prevalence of free-riding among employees. This paper tests this hypothesis experimentally, using a sample of managers and employees from a...

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“Let Them Eat Cake” : Drought, Peasant Uprisings, and Demand for Institutional Change in the French Revolution

Waldinger, Maria - 2023

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...

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Spite in Litigation

Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023

This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...

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The Value of Early-Career Skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

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Persistence in UK Historical Data on Life Expectancy

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

This paper provides estimates of persistence in historical UK data on life expectancy applying fractional integration methods to both an annual series from 1842 to 2019 and a 5-year average from 1543 to 2019. The results indicate that the former exhibits an upward trend and is persistent but...

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Measuring Persistence of the World Population : A Fractional Integration Approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

This paper uses fractional integration methods to measure the degree of persistence in historical annual data on the world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log transformation and its growth rate. The results indicate that...

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