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作者：Gerhards, Leonie; Kosfeld, Michael
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Goethe University Frankfurt
摘要：We study the effect of likeability on women's and men's team behaviour in a lab experiment. Extending a two-player public goods game and a minimum effort game by an additional pre-play stage that informs team members about their mutual likeability, we find that female teams lower their contribution to the public good in the event of low likeability, while male teams achieve high levels of co-operation irrespective of the level of mutual likeability. In mixed-sex teams, both women's and men's c...
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作者：Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani
作者单位：University of Warwick; Harvard University
摘要：This paper develops a taxonomy of political regimes that distinguishes between three sets of rights-property rights, political rights and civil rights. The truly distinctive nature of liberal democracy is the protection of civil rights (equal treatment by the state for all groups) in addition to the other two. The paper shows how democratic transitions that are the product of a settlement between the elite (who care mostly about property rights) and the majority (who care about political right...
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作者：Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Benghalem, Helene; Limon, Emeline
作者单位：CY Cergy Paris Universite; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; ENSAE Paris; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris; University of Lausanne
摘要：This article analyses the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs of short duration recently introduced in several European countries to induce firms to create more open-ended contracts and to increase the duration of jobs. The estimation of a job search and matching model on French data shows that the taxation of temporary jobs does not reach its objectives: it reduces the mean duration of jobs and decreases job creation, employment and welfare of unemployed workers.
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作者：Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; University of Vienna; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); University Hohenheim
摘要：We analyse the economic consequences for poor countries of investing in female health within a unified growth model featuring health-related gender differences in productivity. Better female health accelerates the demographic transition and thereby the take-off towards sustained economic growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because they tend to raise fertility. However, households tend to prefer male health improvements over female health improvements...
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作者：Mengel, Friederike
作者单位：University of Essex; Lund University
摘要：Gender differences in networking have been cited as an important reason behind gender earnings and promotion gaps. Despite this fact there is comparatively little evidence on whether such differences exist or what they look like. We conduct a series of experiments to gain insight into these questions. The experiments are designed to understand differences in the strategic use of networks, when both men and women have the same opportunities to network. While we do find evidence of gender earnin...
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作者：Chen, Yanlin; Zhang, Jun
作者单位：Nanjing Audit University; University of Technology Sydney
摘要：This article investigates how a privately informed seller could signal her type through Bayesian persuasion and pricing strategy. We find that it is generally impossible to achieve separation through one channel alone. Furthermore, the outcome that survives the intuitive criterion always exists and is unique. This outcome is separating, for which a closed-form solution is provided. The signalling concern forces the high-type seller to disclose inefficiently more information and charge a higher...
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作者：Boneva, Lena; Cloyne, James; Weale, Martin; Wieladek, Tomasz
作者单位：Bank of England; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; King's College London; Barclays
摘要：Firms' expectations play a central role in modern macroeconomic models, but little is known empirically about them. Using panel data on manufacturing firms' expectations about prices and wage rates, new orders, employment and unit costs for the United Kingdom, we document a range of stylised facts about firms' expectations and their determinants. There is wide dispersion of expectations across firms. Firms' expectations are influenced by both firm-specific factors and macroeconomic factors. We...
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作者：Berger, Loic; Bosetti, Valentina
作者单位：Universite de Lille; Bocconi University
摘要：Behavioural traits and preferences of decision-makers (DMs) affect the way they take their decisions. While this assertion is generally true for decisions taken at the individual level, it may also be important for collective decisions (depending on the way they are taken). Although it has long been argued that the behavioural traits of policymakers do not matter much at the time of making decisions-because of the broader interests these individuals are supposed to represent-in practice, these...
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作者：Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. England has had two phases of academy school introduction-the first, in the 2000s, being a school improvement programme for poorly performing schools and the second a mass academisation programme from 2010 for better-performing schools. Overall, exclusion rates are higher in academies, with the earlier programme featuring much higher ra...
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作者：Bulte, Erwin; List, John A.; van Soest, Daan
作者单位：Wageningen University & Research; University of Chicago; Tilburg University
摘要：Social scientists have recently explored how framing of gains and losses affects productivity. We conducted a field experiment in peri-urban Uganda, and compared output levels across 1,000 workers over isomorphic tasks and incentives, framed as either losses or gains. We find that loss aversion can be leveraged to increase the productivity of labour. The estimated welfare costs of using the loss contract are quite modest-perhaps because the loss contract is viewed as a (soft) commitment device.
