作者：Bolton, Gary E.; Mans, Johannes; Ockenfels, Axel
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Cologne
摘要：The provision of trader feedback is critical to the functioning of many markets. We examine the influence of group identity on the volunteering and informativeness of feedback. In a market experiment conducted simultaneously in Germany and the United States, we manipulate the interaction of traders based on natural social and induced home market identities. Traders are more likely to provide feedback information on a trader with whom they share a common group identity, and the effect is more p...
作者：Olafsson, Arna; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Copenhagen Business School; Danish Finance Institute; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：We investigate whether paying fathers to stay at home with their newborn child affects marital stability. Our empirical analysis is based on a reform in Iceland that offered one month of parental leave earmarked to fathers with a child born on or after January 2001. This reform created substantial economic incentives for fathers to be more involved in caring for their children during their first months of life, and the take-up rate in the first year was 82.4%. We apply a regression discontinui...
