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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303003
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756432
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Linked out? A field experiment on discrimination in job network formation
Evsyukova, Yulia; Rusche, Felix; Mill, Wladislaw - 2024
We assess the impact of discrimination on Black individuals' job networks across the U.S. using a two-stage field … discrimination across social groups. In the second stage, we exogenously endow Black and White profiles with the same networks and … ask connected users for career advice. We find no evidence of direct discrimination in information provision. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015211856
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299688
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Wage discrimination and occupational segregation of foreign male workers in Germany
Velling, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1995
We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567621
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Religion and the shadow economy
Heinemann, Friedrich; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011
Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion's possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304768
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Philanthropy in a secular society
Bittschi, Benjamin; Borgloh, Sarah; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2016
In this study we investigate the relationship between religious and charitable giving. We test how income, the tax-price of giving and the German church tax, differently affect charitable donations of church members, individuals leaving church and nonchurch members. We find crowding in between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442037
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Religion and the shadow economy
Heinemann, Friedrich; Schneider, Friedrich G. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Religion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on religion's possible impact on the shadow economy. Different dimensions of the religious markets are taken into account. These dimensions refer to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149351
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You can't be happier than your wife: happiness gaps and divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299935
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Choosing your object of benevolence: a field experiment on donation options
Aretz, Bodo; Kube, Sebastian - 2010
In a large natural field experiment, we explore the effect of providing donors with the opportunity to choose the target country for their donations. We find that only a small fraction of donors use the option, which might reflect a reluctance to consider tradeoffs when those concern important,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300008