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Satu Metsälampi, Xiaogeng Xu, Michael Kirchler, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Peter Hans Matthews, and Topi Miettinen
Although higher status or income rank is known to generate hedonic pleasure, little is known about the search for rank information. We report an experiment eliciting rank beliefs and providing rank …
This paper provides large-scale evidence linking the economic effects of childcare programs to social skills measured in adulthood. We examine Finland’s first national public childcare program, and …
Many auctions and procurement contests entail nontrivial bidding costs, which makes the bidders’ participation decisions endogenous to the auction design. We analyze the effect of different auction …