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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output

Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2018

We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora

Epstein, Gil S. - 2016

In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering different possible interactions between immigrants and the new society in their host country....

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Is Transparency an Anti-Corruption Myth?

Murray, Cameron - 2017

We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...

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On the Interpretation of World Values Survey Trust Question : Global Expectations vs. Local Beliefs

Banerjee, Ritwik - 2016

How should we interpret the World Values Survey (WVS) trust question? We conduct an experiment in India, a low trust … country, to correlate the WVS trust question with trust decisions in an incentivized Trust Game. Evidence supports findings … from one strand of the fractured literature – the WVS trust question captures expectations about others' trustworthiness …

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Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market

Dickinson, David L. - 2017

Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...

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Effort and Comparison Income : Experimental and Survey Evidence

Clark, Andrew; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2021

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

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Gendered Language

Jakiela, Pamela - 2020

Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4,000 languages which together account for more than...

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Cultural Diversity : A Matter of Measurement

Nijkamp, Peter - 2015

Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of...

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Trust, Growth and Well-Being : New Evidence and Policy Implications

Algan, Yann - 2015

This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … and documents the substantial heterogeneity of trust across space and time. The conceptual mechanisms and the methods … employed to identify the causal impact of trust on economic performance are reviewed. We document the mechanisms of …

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