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Optimal reimbursement schemes in contests 竞赛中最优报销方案
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107163
Subhasish M. Chowdhury , Chen Cohen , Roy Darioshi , Shmuel Nitzan
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Beyond income: Understanding preferences for redistribution among the top 1% 超越收入:了解前1%的再分配偏好
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107132
Matías Strehl-Pessina , Marcelo Bergolo , Martin Leites
{"title":"Beyond income: Understanding preferences for redistribution among the top 1%","authors":"Matías Strehl-Pessina ,&nbsp;Marcelo Bergolo ,&nbsp;Martin Leites","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Do top-income individuals support different levels of redistribution compared to the rest of society? If so, what drives these differences? We address these questions using a novel dataset that combines administrative tax records with unique survey data on the social and economic preferences of workers in Uruguay. We document a marked decline in support for redistribution among the Top 1% of the income distribution. Comparing this group with the Top 50%–2%, we show that differences in support for redistribution are not solely explained by current income or demographics. A set of beliefs, perceptions, and views, including political ideology, meritocratic beliefs, and views on government, account for much of the observed differences. Instead, a set of behavioral traits and social preferences, such as altruism and risk aversion, measured through incentivized online games, contribute little to explaining the gap. Finally, the differences in support for redistribution persist even when comparing the Top 1% with other high-income groups. Together, these findings suggest that the Top 1% is a distinct group with preferences for redistribution that differ from the rest of society, even from other high-income groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do religious people cope better in a crisis? Evidence from the UK pandemic lockdowns 有宗教信仰的人能更好地应对危机吗?来自英国疫情封锁的证据
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107136
Sriya Iyer , Shaun Larcom , Jaimin Shah , Po-Wen She
{"title":"Do religious people cope better in a crisis? Evidence from the UK pandemic lockdowns","authors":"Sriya Iyer ,&nbsp;Shaun Larcom ,&nbsp;Jaimin Shah ,&nbsp;Po-Wen She","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We measure whether religious people in the UK coped better during the nationwide pandemic lockdowns using the Understanding Society longitudinal dataset. Using religious belonging and religious intensity, both measured before the pandemic, we find that those who belonged to a religion, and those who stated that religion made a difference to their life, coped better during the pandemic. The magnitude of the difference is sizeable. For the Caseness aggregate measure of psychological distress, the coefficient on religious belonging is around one fifth of the lockdown coefficient. We also estimate the aggregate relationship between religious intensity and coping among those who belong to a religion. Here we find no evidence that intensity of faith is related to better coping. However, we do find some heterogeneity among religions, where intensity is associated with better coping among Christians, while among Muslims we find the opposite relationship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On welfarism and scale invariance: What do bargainers bargain about? 论福利主义与规模不变性:议价者在谈什么?
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107128
Noemí Navarro , Róbert F. Veszteg
{"title":"On welfarism and scale invariance: What do bargainers bargain about?","authors":"Noemí Navarro ,&nbsp;Róbert F. Veszteg","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We experimentally test welfarism and scale invariance, two prominent simplifying assumptions that are often used to characterize bargaining solutions in theoretical models. Our study relies on a context-rich bargaining environment and varies the parameters of the bargaining problem along with the information that bargaining parties have about each other. Under the auxiliary assumption of selfishness, it aims at understanding whether bargaining is guided by abstract utilities as assumed by the classic version of cooperative bargaining theory or rather by comparisons in observables (e.g., money) as often assumed by behavioral models of decision-making. The experimental results show that welfarism and scale invariance are supported when the relevant information is only privately known. In general, bargaining outcomes are robust to rescaling that only affects the anchoring points of the utility scale (welfarism), but not to rescaling that affects the units on the utility scale (scale invariance). Overall, our experimental data deliver scarce empirical support to classic theoretical bargaining solutions based on abstract utility units.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107128"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The role of experience in shifting gender beliefs on performance: Experimental evidence 经验在改变性别信念对表现的影响中的作用:实验证据
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107115
Miguel A. Fonseca, Ashley McCrea
{"title":"The role of experience in shifting gender beliefs on performance: Experimental evidence","authors":"Miguel A. Fonseca,&nbsp;Ashley McCrea","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In labour markets, women are often underrepresented relative to men. This underrepresentation may be due to inaccurate beliefs about ability across genders. Inaccurate beliefs might cause a sampling problem: to have accurate beliefs about a group, one must first collect information about it. However, employers may not wish to shortlist individuals from a group that is perceived to exhibit lower quality. Inaccurate beliefs may also persist due to biased belief updating. We run a stylised hiring experiment to disentangle these two effects. We ask participants to create shortlists from a male and a female pool of workers and give them feedback on the skill of those they shortlist. Based on that information, participants hire workers, and provide us with their beliefs about the distribution of skills in the male and female pots. We study how employers update their beliefs as a function of their past shortlisting behaviour, and how they shortlist given their beliefs. Participants were more likely to sample from the pool with the higher subjective mean quality (on average men) and lower subjective variance. Participants were not Bayesian updaters but there were no gender-specific biases in updating. Sampling more from a pool and spending more time sampling yield more accurate beliefs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Broadband and productivity: Structural estimates for Germany 宽带与生产力:德国的结构性估计
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107133
Tomaso Duso , Mattia Nardotto , Alexander Schiersch
{"title":"Broadband and productivity: Structural estimates for Germany","authors":"Tomaso Duso ,&nbsp;Mattia Nardotto ,&nbsp;Alexander Schiersch","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We employ a control function methodology, complemented by various identification strategies, to causally estimate the heterogeneous effects of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) across 46 two-digit manufacturing and service industries in Germany from 2010 to 2015. Throughout this period, the availability of broadband, defined as access to transmission rates of at least 16 Mbps, more than doubled across German municipalities. Our findings reveal that, while broadband availability had a negligible effect on the productivity of manufacturing firms, it exerted a significant and highly heterogeneous impact in numerous service sectors, with an estimated average increase of up to 6.8% in information and communication services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Voluntary quality disclosure in the Labour market 劳动力市场的自愿质量披露
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107152
Tom Lane , Minghai Zhou
{"title":"Voluntary quality disclosure in the Labour market","authors":"Tom Lane ,&nbsp;Minghai Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the transmission by jobseekers to prospective employers of information about their own quality. Data from the UK website Monster.co.uk suggests around one-third-of recent graduates opt not to reveal their degree classification, an important measure of academic quality, to employers. To test how employers react to such non-disclosure, we ran a natural field experiment. We constructed CVs supposedly belonging to recent graduates and varied the information provided about their degree classifications. The CVs were used to make 12,301 applications for graduate jobs advertised on Monster.co.uk between 2019 and 2021, with success measured by the rate of positive responses from employers. Applications leaving classification undisclosed were significantly more successful than those disclosing the lowest possible classification. This suggests limited adverse inference is drawn from missing information. We discuss our results with reference to classic ‘unravelling’ theory, in which undisclosed information is treated with full scepticism and all but the very worst quality information is voluntarily transmitted.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Does automation reduce stigma? The effect of self-checkout register adoption on purchasing decisions 自动化能减少耻辱感吗?采用自助结帐挂号对购买决策的影响
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107126
Rebecca Cardinali , Lester Lusher , Rebecca L.C. Taylor , Sofia B. Villas-Boas
{"title":"Does automation reduce stigma? The effect of self-checkout register adoption on purchasing decisions","authors":"Rebecca Cardinali ,&nbsp;Lester Lusher ,&nbsp;Rebecca L.C. Taylor ,&nbsp;Sofia B. Villas-Boas","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By removing human cashiers, self-checkout registers may alter feelings of embarrassment experienced by customers. Using high-frequency scanner data from supermarkets in the Washington, D.C. area with staggered adoption of self-checkout, we conduct event study analyses on consumer purchasing behavior. On the extensive margin, we find positive but noisy effects of self-checkout adoption on sales of some stigmatized items. On the intensive margin, we show that stigmatized items are much more likely to be purchased at self-checkout than at cashier registers, especially condoms and pregnancy tests. We estimate that customers are willing to pay 8.5 cents in additional time cost for the privacy of purchasing stigmatized items at self-checkout.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Reconsidering the normative foundations of public health: market vs. social justice 重新考虑公共卫生的规范基础:市场与社会正义
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107144
Byron Carson
{"title":"Reconsidering the normative foundations of public health: market vs. social justice","authors":"Byron Carson","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores a classical liberal foundation to public health. In doing so, it discusses theory and evidence on how individuals, markets, and economic freedom improves health outcomes; it anticipates objections related to market failures; and develops novel public health policies that can be used to improve public health outcomes. Classical liberalism, or what some refer to as market justice, centers its system of justice on property rights because of the beneficial outcomes related to economic activity. Importantly, classical liberalism provides under explored and novel public health benefits, namely the production and sale of health-enhancing goods and a limit to the potential abuses of dysfunctional, centralized public health bureaus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Lavish, the wealthy, and the healthy — Effect of housing wealth on health outcomes and behaviors 奢侈、富有和健康——住房财富对健康结果和行为的影响
IF 2.3 3区 经济学
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107123
Qingli Fan , Qiyao Zhou
{"title":"The Lavish, the wealthy, and the healthy — Effect of housing wealth on health outcomes and behaviors","authors":"Qingli Fan ,&nbsp;Qiyao Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does housing wealth affect people’s health outcomes and health behaviors? We study such an effect on the middle-aged and older population in China by exploiting a discontinuity in housing wealth generated by two housing policies under a regression discontinuity design (RDD) framework. These policies gave tax and down-payment breaks to owners of houses 90 <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> or smaller. We find that increased housing wealth leads to exacerbated counts of self-reported health conditions. However, objective biomarker indicators only point to a negative effect on lung functionality. Other objective indicators, such as mortality and stroke, also point to the null effects. One explanation for such a discrepancy is that wealth not only has a direct impact on health but may also increase the possibility of having a health condition diagnosed. These hypotheses are also supported by our findings that increased housing wealth is accompanied by more frequent healthcare use. The negative effect of housing wealth on lung health, as indicated by both objective and subjective measures, can be attributed to worsened smoking habits. The results of our paper highlight several important biases that arise when the diagnostic effect is ignored in using subjective health indicators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 107123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144656527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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