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This note uses a unique dataset for Germany which contains interviewer-rated physical appearance assessments of survey …
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. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …
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Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …
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. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703605
validation analysis" of the Global Preference Survey Module (GPS) and the corresponding Preference Survey Module (PSM) developed … countries than in the original validation in Germany, and to what extent survey items and modules developed from behavioral … very diverse countries—China, Iran, and Kenya—show that many GPS and PSM survey items predict behavior in incentivized …
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We study anchoring effects in the elicitation of multidimensional beliefs within a single survey task using a … guidance for survey design involving multidimensional belief elicitation in information-provision experiments. …
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, but productivity growth cannot fully explain the immediate effect on earnings. Instead, the data and a grantee survey are …
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Family-owned firms account for majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Arab countries, but evidence on the impact of this ownership type on access to credit in the region is scarce. Yet the issue is key for understanding barriers to the emergence of dynamic private sector and...
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Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation and climate change, increasing resource efficiency, and promoting both sustainable production and sustainable lifestyles is a challenge in North Africa, a region where even a relative decoupling of income growth and carbon (CO2) emissions...
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Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
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