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Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation
(2010-08)
Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, ...
Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-07)
When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ...
General Properties of Expected Demand Functions: Negativity (No Giffen Good) and Homogeneity - A Descriptive Non Utility Maximizing Approach
(2010-09)
In this paper we assume that choice of commodities at the individual (household) level is made in the budget set and that the choice can be described by a probability density function. We prove that negativity (()0xExp∂<∂) ...
Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
(2010-02-01)
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in oneshot
normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their firstand
second-order beliefs. We find that ...
Are Men Really More Overconfident than Women? - A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior
(2010-08)
This paper reports from a simple natural field experiment based on an eco-nomics exam. Part of the exam consisted of 30 multiple choice questions, where the students obtained 1 point per correct answer while 1 point was ...
Pre-School Education and School Performance The Case of Public Schools in Montevideo
(2010-03-17)
In this paper we try to explain the academic performance of a sample of children starting
their first year at public schools in 1999 in Montevideo, Uruguay. We are mainly
interested in the effect of pre-school education ...
The first time is the hardest: A test of ordering effects in choice experiments
(2010-10)
This paper addresses the issue of ordering effects in choice experiments, and in particular how learning processes potentially affect respondents’ stated preferences in a sequence of choice sets. In a case study concerning ...
Quantifying Ethnic Cleansing: An Application to Darfur
(2010-12)
This paper has two objectives: First, to develop and critically examine
various measures of ethnic cleansing on the basis of a review of the existing
literature. Second, to apply the suggested measures to a unique sample ...
Do Laws Affect Attitudes? - An assessment of the Norwegian prostitution law using longitudinal data
(2010-06)
The question of whether laws affect attitudes has inspired scholars across many disciplines, but empirical knowledge is sparse. Using longitudinal survey data from Norway and Sweden, collected before and after the ...
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
(2010-11)
Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The
general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how
they actually behave. In ...