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Gautier, Pieter; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007

Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...

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The own and social effects of an unexpected income shock

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Kooreman, Peter; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Rev. May 5, 2010

Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMWto lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery winners and their neighbors.Consistent with the life-cycle hypothesis, the effects on winners’...

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Computation of the nucleolus for a class of disjunctive games with a permission structure

Brink, René van den; Katsev, Ilya; Laan, Gerard van der - 2008

A situation in which a finite set of players can obtain certain payoffs by cooperation can be described by a cooperative game with transferable utility, or simply a TU-game. A (single-valued) solution for TU-games assigns a payoff distribution to every TU-game. A well-known solution is the...

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On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties

Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Stallen, Mirre; … - 2008

betweenindividuals. Characteristic of a social tie, as conceived of here, is that it develops over timeunder the influence of interaction …

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Gift exchange in the workplace

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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Social interaction, co-worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J.; Sol, Joeri - 2009

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers … principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only engage in productive activities, but also in social interaction with their …

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Team incentives, social cohesion, and performance : a natural field experiment

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; Onemu, Okemena Abraham - 2019

We conduct a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain with 122 stores to study the interaction between team incentives …

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Group formation in a public good experiment : on the dynamics of social ties structures

Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999

, neighborhoods, socialnetworks, etc.). Characteristic of such interaction is the development of(affective) interpersonal … social ties structures, andthereby the formation of informal groups, through economic interaction in apublic good environment …

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Imitation of cooperation in prisoner's dilemma games with some local interaction

Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2000

In this paper I study conditions for the emergence of cooperativebehavior in a dynamic model of population interaction ….The model has finitely many individuals located on a circle. The pay-off of each individual is partly based on the (local)interaction … with neighbors and partly on (uniform) interaction withthe whole population. The dynamics is driven byimitative behavior. I …

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Social interactions in unemployment

Lalive, Rafael - 2003

This paper studies the relevance of social interactions among the unemployed. Identification is based on a salient and selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change affects entitled individuals not only directly,...

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