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Out-group Penalties in Refugee Assistance : A Survey Experiment
Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on these views, using an online survey experiment including 4,087 Italian participants. We assess attitudes using donations to a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence...
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Is there more than one linkage between Social Network and Inequality?
D'Angelo, Emanuela; Lilla, Marco - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2007
The paper aims to analyse how income inequality affects social networks strength in fourteen European Countries. We introduce some new evidences by using the ECHP for testing the networks-inequality nexus and being able to construct directly inequality indices from the microdata as well their...
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What Makes a Price Fair? An Experimental Analysis of Transaction Experience and Endogenous Fairness Views
Herz, Holger - 2016
People's fairness preferences are an important constraint for what constitutes an acceptable economic transaction, yet … play an important role in shaping perceptions of fairness. Buyers used to high market prices, for example, are more likely …-dependent fairness preferences--either based on endogenous fairness reference points or based on shifts in salience--that can account for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455952
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Generation Next : Experimentation with AI
Charness, Gary; Jabarian, Brian; List, John A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the potential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance scientific practice within experimentation by identifying key areas, directions, and implications. First, we discuss how these models can improve experimental design, including improving the elicitation wording, coding...
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How Do Surrogates Make Treatment Decisions for Patients with Dementia? An Experimental Survey Study
Nicholas, Lauren Hersch; Langa, Kenneth M.; Halpern, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making. We conducted a nationally representative experimental survey that cross-randomized cognitive impairment,...
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State-Dependent Local Projections : Understanding Impulse Response Heterogeneity
Cloyne, James; Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
An impulse response is the dynamic average effect of an intervention across horizons. We use the well-known Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore a response's heterogeneity over time and over states of the economy. This can be implemented with a simple extension to the usual local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226168
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Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion : Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
Griffin, John D. - 2011
groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences in fairness standards using preferences for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461560
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Directed Giving : Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia - 2014
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. When given the option, dictators do a large fraction of giving...
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Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States
Haws, Adrian; Just, David; Price, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We link census records for millions of farm children to identify owner-operators of the family farm in adulthood, providing the first population-level evidence on intergenerational farm transfers. Using our panel of U.S. census data from 1900 to 1940, our analysis supports the primogeniture...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
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