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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls' trajectories: Evidence from a field experiment in India

Andrew, Alison; Krutikova, Sonya; Smarrelli, Gabriela; … - 2022

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that go against the status quo - to remain in school longer or...

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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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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...

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Changing identity: Retiring from unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

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Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment

Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011

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Crime, punishment and social norms

Weibull, Jörgen W.; Villa, Edgar - 2005

We analyze the interplay between economic incentives and social norms when individuals decide whether or not to engage in criminal activity. More specifically, we assume that there is a social norm against criminal activity and that deviations from the norm result in feelings of guilt or shame....

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Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook

Egebark, Johan; Ekström, Mathias - 2011

Users of the social networking service Facebook have the possibility to post status updates for their friends to read …

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Brand Management in a Digital World: An examination of Hugo Boss's efforts in social media

Fähnle, Sabrina; Teichmann, Julia; Pätzmann, Jens U. - In: Markenbrand (2012) 1/2012, pp. 13-23

The rise of social media is causing challenges for brand managers of premium manufacturers in the fast moving consumer goods industry. Social Media platforms as innovative and open communication channels have to be integrated in the established media mix while preventing the damage of the...

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Advertising in the U.S. Personal Computer Industry

Goeree, Michelle S. - 2004

) industry. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of limited information on the part of consumers, where advertising … influences the set of products from which consumers choose to purchase. Multi-product firms choose prices and advertising in each … medium to maximize their profits. I apply the model to the US PC market, in which advertising expenditures are over $2 …

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Advertising and Consumer Search in a Duopoly Model

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Non, Mariëlle C. - 2005

. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following … results. First, there is no monotone relationship between prices and the degree of advertising. Second, advertising and search … are “substitutes” for a large range of parameters. Third, when the cost of either search or advertising vanishes, the …

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