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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration

Doepke, Matthias - 2013

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014

We compare inequality aversion in individuals and teams by means of both within- and between-subject experimental designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality aversion than individual initial proposals in team...

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Are Teams Less Inequality Averse than Individuals?

He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Time to vote?

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Stillman, Steven; … - 2011

Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools to validated national election survey data from New...

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Time to Vote?

Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun; Stillman, Steven; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Real Options Effects on Employment : Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty Matter for Aggregation?

Göcke, Matthias; Belke, Ansgar - 2004

exchange rate uncertainty. Based on this micro foundation an aggregation approach is presented. Under uncertainty, intervals of … where the aggregation of microeconomic real options effects under uncertainty are relevant, they may even be of a more …

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Aggregation in large dynamic panels

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2011

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which observed inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

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Optimal Weights for Marital Sorting Measures

Almar, Frederik; Schulz, Bastian - 2023

Changing distributions of male and female types affect the measurement of educationbased marriage market sorting. We develop a weighting strategy that minimizes the distortion of sorting measures due to changing type distributions. The optimal weights reflect that female type distributions have...

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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

Lindo, Jason M. - 2013

to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- and less-disaggregated analyses … of geographic aggregation. This analysis reveals that more-disaggregated analyses severely understate the extent to which …

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A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003

Oaxaca and Ransom (1999) show that a detailed decomposition of the coefficients effect is destined to suffer from an identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect attributed to a dummy variable is not invariant to the choice of reference groups. It turns out that the...

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