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Gender Differences in Wage Expectations : Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles
Kießling, Lukas - 2019
. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force … interruptions. Given the importance of wage expectations for labor market decisions, household bargaining, and wage setting, our …
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What You See is All There Is
Enke, Benjamin - 2020
News reports and communication are inherently constrained by space, time, and attention. As a result, news sources often condition the decision of whether to share a piece of information on the similarity between the signal and the prior belief of the audience, which generates a sample selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840217
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Does Policy Communication During COVID Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830360
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Effects of unilateral climate policy on terms of trade, capital accumulation, and welfare in a world economy
Farmer, Karl; Friedl, Birgit; Rainer, Andreas - 2008
-reducing country. The net welfare effect of improving terms of trade and falling capital stocks is negative in both countries. However …, if the country which unilaterally reduces her emission permits is a net creditor to the world economy, her own welfare …
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Internationally coordinated emission permit policies : an option for withdrawers from the Kyoto protocol?
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - 2009
This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in … country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic permit policy are larger than of an internationally coordinated … the post-Kyoto era since bearing the costs of foreign actionism is cheaper, in terms of welfare, than agreeing on …
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Measuring strategic uncertainty in coordination games
Heinemann, Frank; Nagel, Rosemarie; Ockenfels, Peter - 2004
This paper explores three aspects of strategic uncertainty: its relation to risk, predictability of behavior and subjective beliefs of players. In a laboratory experiment we measure subjects? certainty equivalents for three coordination games and one lottery. Behavior in coordination games is...
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Measuring Belief-Dependent Preferences Without Information About Beliefs
Bellemare, Charles - 2019
We derive bounds on the causal effect of belief-dependent preferences (reciprocity and guilt aversion) on choices in sequential two-player games without exploiting information or data on the (higher-order) beliefs of players. We show how informative bounds can be derived by exploiting a specific...
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Religious Identity, Trust, Reciprocity, and Prosociality : Theory and Evidence
Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan - 2022
We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel and rigorous theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in...
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Reciprocity and emotions when reciprocators know each other
Reuben, Ernesto; van Winden, Frans - 2006
This is an experimental study of a three-player power-to-take game where a take authority is matched with two responders. The game consists of two stages. In the first stage, the take authority decides how much of the endowment of each responder that is left after the second stage will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261421
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Partial Norms
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2019
We consider an expanded notion of social norms that renders them belief-dependent and partial, formulate a series of related testable predictions, and design an experiment based on a variant of the dictator game that tests for empirical relevance. Main results: Normative beliefs influence...
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