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matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A … in marriage over smoking, rather than bargaining within the couple or social learning. …
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A prominent feature of economic geography in America is the positive correlation amongst local incomes, housing costs and city population. This paper embeds a black box agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium model of local wages, rents and population to assess the...
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Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...
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' beliefs are subject to information friction and Bayesian learning. … high socioeconomic status (SES). We examine the effect of combining increased instruction time with information to teachers …
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biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …
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mothers work full-time, children's actual performance is generally underestimated, but providing factual information about …
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We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus …-physician-patients. Knowledge mechanisms play a crucial role because the network effect explains some, but not all, patterns. For less informed … physician-patients, possessing a network is equivalent to reducing medical knowledge. …
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How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question … in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It shifts and rotates demand curves. The direction of the shift is …
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What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others … combat health sector fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic. In different treatment groups, we either provide information about … the three forms of activism. Providing information and correcting downward biased beliefs about others increases petition …
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automation risk of their occupation, especially those in high-automatability occupations. Randomized information about their … in their work environment. The information also increases willingness to participate in further training, especially …
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