Title:Similarities and Differences When Building Trust: The Role of Cultures
Author(s):BORNHORST, Fabian; ICHINO, Andrea; KIRCHKAMP, Oliver; SCHLAG, Karl H.; WINTER, EyalDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We run an experiment in which students of different European nationalities are matched in groups of five and repeatedly choose with whom within their group they want to play a trust game. Participants observe of each other ...
Title:Clean evidence on peer effects
Author(s):FALK, Armin; ICHINO, AndreaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the 'pair' treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer effects were possible. In ...
Title:Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; FILIPPIN, AntonioDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Realized wages are affected by investments and signals concerning productivity, which workers undertake on the basis of expectations on future job prospects. Thus, the gender wage gap is also likely to depend on workers' ...
Title:The effect of employment protection on worker effort: absenteeism during and after probation
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; RIPHAHN, Regina T.Date:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Employment protection systems are widely believed to generate distortions in firms' hiring and firing decisions. However, much less is known about the impact of these regulations on workers' behavior. In this paper we ...
Title:Clean Evidence on Peer Effects
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; FALK, ArminDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the "pair" treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer effects were possible. In ...
Title:The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; WINTER-EBMER, RudolfDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school-age children who receive less education. Austrian and German individuals who were 10 years old during the conflict, or ...