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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?

Battu, Harminder; Mwale, McDonald; Zenou, Yves - 2003

We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, language), and in which jobs are mainly found through social networks. We found that, depending on how...

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Social incentives in the workplace

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensation scheme in...

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The economics of discrimination: evidence from basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009

This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There...

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Do former college athletes earn more at work? A nonparametric assessment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Olbrecht, Alexandre; Polachek, … - 2005

. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is … significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by … using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage …

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Can You Leave High School Behind?

Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; … - 2014

In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship...

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Re-examining the impact of dropping out on criminal and labor outcomes in early adulthood

Bjerk, David - 2011

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...

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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties

Waddell, Glen R. - 2010

Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. The potential reverse causality is also a challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal...

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Medical marijuana laws and teen marijuana use

Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - 2012

While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana...

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Medical marijuana laws, traffic fatalities, and alcohol consumption

Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011

To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety of outcomes. Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among...

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