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The behavioral sciences, including most of psychology, seek to explain and predict behavior with the help of theories and models that involve concepts (e.g., attitudes) that are subsequently translated into measures. Currently, some subdisciplines such as social psychology focus almost exclusively on measures that demand reflection or even introspection when administered to persons. We argue that such ...
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PloS one
13 (2018), 2, e0192907
| Siegmar Otto, Ulf Kröhne, David Richter
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China's government has been promoting the shift toward a consumption-based economy in the past few years to arrive at a path of sustainable and socially inclusive growth. In this context, the explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage ofwages in the national household income was an integral part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011–15). These changes in economic strategy are likely to affect the ...
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Asian Economic Papers
17 (2018) 2, S. 94-107
| Julian Donaubauer, Christian Dreger
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Both lifespan psychology and life course sociology highlight that contextual factors influence individual functioning and development. In the current study, we operationalize context as county-level care services in inpatient and outpatient facilities(e.g., number of care facilities, privacy in facilities) and investigate how the care context shapes well-being in the last years of life. To do so, we ...
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European Journal of Ageing
15 (2018), 2, S. 111-122
| Nina Vogel, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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Previous research on social inequalities relied primarily on objective indicators. According to recent studies, however, subjective indicators that reflect a person’s perceptions and evaluations of inequalities are also relevant. Such evaluations depend on an individual’s normative orientation, so respective attitudes toward distributive justice need to be accounted for appropriately. This article ...
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Social Indicators Research
136 (2018), 2, S. 663-692
| Sebastian Hülle, Stefan Liebig, Meike Janina May
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A time-varying parameters Bayesian structural vector autoregression (TVP-BVAR) model with stochastic volatility is employed to characterize the monetary policy stance of the Bank of Canada (BoC) in terms of an interest rate rule linking the policy rate to the output gap, inflation and the exchange rate. Using quarterly bilateral Canadian–US data, we find such an interest rate rule to have little explanatory ...
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Empirical Economics
55 (2018), 2, S. 471-494
| T. Philipp Dybowski, Max Hanisch, Bernd Kempa
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There is evidence that estimates of long-run impulse responses of structural vector autoregressive (VAR) models based on long-run identifying restrictions may not be very accurate. This finding suggests that using short-run identifying restrictions may be preferable. We compare structural VAR impulse response estimates based on long-run and short-run identifying restrictions and find that long-run ...
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AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis
102 (2018), 2, S. 229-244
| Helmut Lütkepohl, Anna Staszewska-Bystrova, Peter Winker
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Psychology offers conceptual and analytic tools that can advance the discussion on the nature of risk preference and its measurement in the behavioral sciences. We discuss the revealed and stated preference measurement traditions, which have coexisted in both psychology and economics in the study of risk preferences, and explore issues of temporal stability, convergent validity, and predictive validity ...
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Journal of Economic Perspectives
32 (2018), 2, S. 155-172
| Rui Mata, Renato Frey, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp, Ralph Hertwig
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Revenue cap regulation is often combined with systematic benchmarking to reveal the managerial inefficiencies when regulating natural monopolies. One example is the European energy sector, where benchmarking is based on actual cost data, which are influenced by managerial inefficiency as well as operational heterogeneity. This paper demonstrates how a conditional nonparametric method, which allows ...
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European Journal of Operational Research
265 (2018), 2, S. 710-722
| Endre Bjoerndal, Mette Björndal, Astrid Cullmann, Maria Nieswand
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In this paper, I study how occupational segregation affects the allocation of talent in a competitive labour market. I propose a model of occupational choice in which heterogeneous workers must rely on their social contacts to acquire job‐vacancy information. While occupational segregation implies benefits in terms of job‐finding probability, it also leads to allocative inefficiencies. Efficient and ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
120 (2018), 1, S. 242-267
| David Pothier
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In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to measure the effects of these threshold‐based policies on political and economic outcomes. Using evidence ...
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American Journal of Political Science
62 (2018), 1, S. 210-229
| Andrew C. Eggers, Ronny Freier, Veronica Grembi, Tommaso Nannicini