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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change

Dauth, Wolfgang; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...

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The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market

Bellou, Andriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

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A Vague Theory of Choice over Time

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We propose a novel approach to modelling time preferences, based on a cognitive shortcoming of human decision makers: the perception of future events becomes increasingly ‘blurred’ as the events are pushed further in time. We axiomatise a class of preference representations which can be...

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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation

Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...

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Goals and Psychological Accounting

Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow psychological accounts) rather than jointly (in a broad account). To explain this evidence, our theory of...

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"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France

Adida, Claire L.; Laitin, David D.; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper predicts that this demographic trend will increase anti-Muslim prejudice. Relying on experimental games...

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Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...

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Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing

Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially abandoned and experienced with less regret during old...

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Trust, Values and False Consensus

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...

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Trust and Cheating

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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