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Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior (2015)
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van den Berg, P., Molleman, L., & Weissing, F. J. (2015). Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(9), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1417203112

It has often been argued that the spectacular cognitive capacities of humans are the result of selection for the ability to gather, process, and use information about other people. Recent studies show that humans strongly and consistently differ in w... Read More about Focus on the success of others leads to selfish behavior.

Beyond chance? The persistence of performance in online poker (2015)
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Potter van Loon, R. J., van den Assem, M. J., & van Dolder, D. (2015). Beyond chance? The persistence of performance in online poker. PLoS ONE, 10(3), Article e0115479. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115479

A major issue in the widespread controversy about the legality of poker and the appropriate taxation of winnings is whether poker should be considered a game of skill or a game of chance. To inform this debate we present an analysis into the role of... Read More about Beyond chance? The persistence of performance in online poker.

Aid and domestic resource mobilisation with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa (2015)
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Morrissey, O. (2015). Aid and domestic resource mobilisation with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 31(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grv029

Increasing tax revenues in low income countries is essential to address future development finance requirements. This is particularly important for aid recipients, the focus of this paper. Theory shows that although there are many ways in which aid c... Read More about Aid and domestic resource mobilisation with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Illegal immigration: policy perspectives and challenges (2015)
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Casarico, A., Facchini, G., & Frattini, T. (2015). Illegal immigration: policy perspectives and challenges. CESifo Economic Studies, 61(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifv004

The combination of increasing immigration pressures and restrictive policies imperfectly enforced by many destination countries has made illegal immigration widespread. This paper provides an overview of the mechanisms behind the formation of migrati... Read More about Illegal immigration: policy perspectives and challenges.

Identifying social norms using coordination games: spectators vs. stakeholders (2015)
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Erkut, H., Nosenzo, D., & Sefton, M. (2015). Identifying social norms using coordination games: spectators vs. stakeholders. Economics Letters, 130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.021

We investigate social norms for dictator game giving using a recently proposed norm-elicitation procedure (Krupka and Weber, 2013). We elicit norms separately from dictator, recipient, and disinterested third party respondents and find that elicited... Read More about Identifying social norms using coordination games: spectators vs. stakeholders.

Is education the best contraception: the case of teenage pregnancy in England? (2015)
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Girma, S., & Paton, D. (2015). Is education the best contraception: the case of teenage pregnancy in England?. Social Science and Medicine, 131, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.040

This paper examines potential explanations for recent declines in teenage pregnancy in England. We estimate panel data models of teenage conception, birth and abortion rates from regions in England. Although point estimates are consistent with the pr... Read More about Is education the best contraception: the case of teenage pregnancy in England?.

Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement (2015)
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Barr, A., Burns, J., Miller, L., & Shaw, I. (2015). Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118, 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.012

We present a series of experiments that investigates whether tendencies to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status. Each participant played a four-person dictator game under one of t... Read More about Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement.

On preference imprecision (2015)
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Cubitt, R. P., Navarro-Martinez, D., & Starmer, C. (2015). On preference imprecision. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 50(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-015-9207-6

Recent research invokes preference imprecision to explain violations of individual decision theory. While these inquiries are suggestive, the nature and significance of such imprecision remain poorly understood. We explore three questions using a new... Read More about On preference imprecision.

Why pay NGOs to involve the community? (2015)
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Burger, R., Dasgupta, I., & Owens, T. (2015). Why pay NGOs to involve the community?. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 86(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12065

We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community... Read More about Why pay NGOs to involve the community?.

Confidence sets for the date of a break in level and trend when the order of integration is unknown (2015)
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Harvey, D. I., & Leybourne, S. J. (2015). Confidence sets for the date of a break in level and trend when the order of integration is unknown. Journal of Econometrics, 184(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.09.004

We propose methods for constructing confidence sets for the timing of a break in level and/or trend that have asymptotically correct coverage for both I(0) and I(1) processes. These are based on inverting a sequence of tests for the break location, e... Read More about Confidence sets for the date of a break in level and trend when the order of integration is unknown.