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Ewers, Mara - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Informality and Long-Run Growth

Docquier, Frédéric - 2014

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor …

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Motivated Belief Updating and Rationalization of Information

Drobner, Christoph; Goerg, Sebastian J. - 2022

We study belief updating about relative performance in an ego-relevant task. Manipulating the perceived ego-relevance of the task, we show that subjects update their beliefs optimistically because they derive direct utility flows from holding positive beliefs. This finding provides a behavioral...

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2022

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer Ã¢â ¬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...

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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation : Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark Martin - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Dahl, Christian M. - 2011

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer – such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential mechanism...

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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2018

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but unlike most international...

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Special Interest Groups Versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention

Balles, Patrick - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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