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Fair pension policies with occupation-specific aging

Grossmann, Volker; Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger - 2021

We discuss public pension systems in a multi-period overlapping generations model with gerontologically founded human aging and a special focus on occupation-specific morbidity and mortality. We examine how distinct replacement rates for white-collar and blue-collar workers and early retirement...

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

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I lie? We lie! Why? : experimental evidence on an dishonesty shift

Kocher, Martin; Schudy, Simeon; Spantig, Lisa - 2016

Unethical behavior such as dishonesty, cheating and corruption occurs frequently in organizations or groups. Recent experimental evidence suggests that there is a stronger inclination to behave immorally in groups than individually. We ask if this is the case, and if so, why. Using a...

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New characteristics and hedonic price index numbers

Crawford, Ian; Neary, J. Peter - 2019

Changes in product characteristics on the extensive margin are an important and hitherto neglected dimension of quality change. Standard techniques for quality-adjusting price indices cannot handle such changes satisfactorily, which leads to an economically and statistically significant bias in...

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An experimental study on the effects of communication, credibility, and clustering in network games

Charness, Gary; Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, … - 2019

The effectiveness of social interaction depends strongly on an ability to coordinate actions efficiently. In large networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network structure. We examine how pre-play communication and...

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Collective intertemporal decisions and heterogeneity in groups

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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Impact of formal climate risk transfer mechanisms on risk-aversion : empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Haile, Kaleab K.; Nillesen, Eleonora; Tirivayi, Nyasha - 2019

This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk preferences. Survey and experimental data were collected from smallholder farmers that have access to weather index-based crop insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an...

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Welfare stigma in the lab : evidence of social signaling

Friedrichsen, Jana; König, Tobias; Schmacker, Renke - 2017

Using a laboratory experiment, we present first evidence that stigmatization through public exposure causally reduces the take-up of an individually beneficial transfer. Our design exogenously varies the informativeness of the take-up decision by varying whether transfer eligibility is based on...

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Generosity across contexts

Davis, Alexander L.; Jehli, Nadja R.; Miller, John H.; … - 2015

non-monetary. In two experiments, generosity is significantly higher in non-monetary contexts. Thus, the typical monetary …

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Big and small lies

Geraldes, Diogo; Heinicke, Franziska; Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2020

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