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Disability, gender and hiring discrimination : a field experiment
Bjørnshagen, Vegar; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Ugreninov, Elisabeth - 2023
disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … found only against women or only against men. The results thus indicate that disability and gender interact and shape …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287240
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Aversion to Health Inequality - Pure, Income-Related and Income-Caused
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023
income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321792
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Aversion to health inequality : pure, income-related and income-caused
Robson, Matthew; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Ourti, Tom - 2023
income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249848
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Disability, Gender and Hiring Discrimination : A Field Experiment
Bjørnshagen, Vegar; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Ugreninov, Elisabeth - 2023
disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … found only against women or only against men. The results thus indicate that disability and gender interact and shape …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347812
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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle: Some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This trend has occurred despite heterogeneity in life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187824
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo E. - 2016 - Updated version
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative panel data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557349
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Unfair pay and health
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Menrath, Ingo; Verde, Pablo … - 2014
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach exploiting complementarities between controlled lab and representative field data. In a simple principal-agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462044
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Did you get your shots? : experimental evidence on the role of reminders
Busso, Matias; Cristia, Julian; Humpage, Sarah - 2015
Many families fail to vaccinate their children despite the supply of these services at no cost. This study tests whether personal reminders can increase demand for vaccination. A field experiment was conducted in rural Guatemala in which timely reminders were provided to families whose children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292970
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The formation and malleability of dietary habits : a field experiment with low income families
Belot, Michèle; Berlin, Noemi; James, Jonathan G.; … - 2018
of food intake. 285 low income families with young children were recruited and assigned either to a control group or one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796428
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Learning intensity effects in students' mental and physical health : evidence from a large scale natural experiment in Germany
Hofmann, Sarah; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2017
In this study, we analyze health effects of a recent education reform in Germany exposing students to increased schooling intensity. The reform shortened the higher secondary education track by one year. As the overall curriculum required for graduation was held constant, this led to an increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812578