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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...

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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...

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Choosing to Compete: How Different are Girls and Boys?

Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

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Suspense

Chan, William M; Courty, Pascal; Li, Hao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In a dynamic model of sports competition, we show that when spectators care only about the level of effort exerted by contestants, rewarding schemes that depend linearly on the final score difference provide more efficient incentives for efforts than schemes based only on who wins and loses....

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Multivariate Choice and Identification of Social Interactions

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Liu, Xiaodong; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the impact of peers on own outcomes where all agents embedded in a network choose more than one activity. We develop a simple network model that illustrates these issues. We differentiate between the ‘seemingly unrelated’ simultaneous equations model where...

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Student Networks and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: The Strength of Strong Ties

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The aim of this paper is to investigate and understand the effect of high-school friends on years of schooling. We develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education. The empirical salience of the model is tested using...

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Dynamic Aspects of Teenage Friendships and Educational Attainment

Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four waves of the AddHealth data, looking at the impact of...

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Conflict, Climate and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis

Harari, Mariaflavia; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

spatial variation in crop cover, to construct an original measure of shocks that are relevant for agricultural production … cultivated in the cell have a sizeable and persistent effect on conflict incidence. We also use state-of-the-art spatial … econometric techniques to test for the presence of temporal and spatial spillovers in conflict, and we find both to be sizeable …

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How are Product Demand Changes Transmitted to the Labour Market?

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

In traditional Keynesian and neoclassical models, the transmission of product demand changes to the labour market generally involves wage-price sluggishness or counter-cyclical real wage movements. In practice, however, real wages are often acyclical or procyclical, and wages and prices are...

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The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850

Humphries, Jane; Weisdorf, Jacob - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed widening gap between women and men’s remuneration...

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