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Prof. Dr. Armin Falk Biographical Sketch 1998 PhD, University of Zurich 1998 - 2003 Assistant professor, University of Zurich 2003 - 2005 Lecturer, Central European University (Budapest) 2003 - today Research Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 2003 - today Professor of Economics, University of Bonn Affiliations with CESifo, CEPR Research Interests Labor Economics, Behavioral and experimental economics Selected Journal Publications “Fairness Perceptions and Reservation Wages - The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wage Laws” (with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder), Quarterly Journal of Economic, forthcoming. “Distrust - The Hidden Cost of Control” (with Michael Kosfeld), American Economic Review, forthcoming. “Clean Evidence on Peer Effects” (with Andrea Ichino), Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming. “A Theory of Reciprocity” (with Urs Fischbacher), Games and Economic Behavior 54 (2), 2006, 293-315. “Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Econometrica 73 (6), 2005, 2017-2030. “The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation” (with Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller), Labour Economics 12 (6), 2005, 739-748. “Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards” (with Markus Knell), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106 (3), 2004, 417-435. “Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions” (with Martin Brown and Ernst Fehr), Econometrica 72, 2004, 747-780. “On the Nature of Fair Behavior” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Economic Inquiry 41(1), 2003, 20-26. “Reasons for Conflict - Lessons From Bargaining Experiments” (with Ernst Fehr and Urs Fischbacher), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 159 (1), 2003, 171-187. “Why Labour Market Experiments?” (with Ernst Fehr), Labour Economics 10, 2003, 399-406. “Reputation and Reciprocity - Consequences for the Labour Relation” (with Simon Gächter), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 104, 2002, 1-26. “Crime" in the Lab - Detecting Social Interaction” (with Urs Fischbacher), European Economic Review 46, 2002, 859-869. “Psychological Foundations of Incentives” (with Ernst Fehr), European Economic Review 46, 2002, 687-724. “Distributional Consequences and Intentions in a Model of Reciprocity” (with Urs Fischbacher), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 63-64, 2001, 112-129. “Wage Rigidities in a Competitive Incomplete Contract Market” (with Ernst Fehr), Journal of Political Economy 107, 1999, 106-134. “Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Incentives in a Repeated Game with Incomplete Contracts” (with Simon Gächter and Judit Kovacs), Journal of Economic Psychology 20, 1999, 351-284. .

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Armin Falk IZA and University of Bonn April 2004
I. Introduction Armin Falk IZA and University of Bonn April 2004 Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 1/18 This course • Study behavioral effects for labor related outcomes • Empirical studies •Overview – Introduction – Psychology of incentives • Reciprocity and contract enforcement • Dysfunctional effects of explicit incentives • Peer effects • Loss aversion, collusion and sabotage in the presence of tournament incentives – Labor supply – Market behavior • Monopsony and minimum wages • Fairness, efficiency wages and wage rigidities • Incomplete contracts, fairness and the functioning of markets Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 2/18 Requirements 1. Take part in the lecture 2. Write a short paper • Either about a summary and discussion of 3 papers • List of topics and papers will be provided • Papers, which are not discussed in this course • Or about a labor economics experiment, which you design, conduct and analyze • Motivation, design, results, discussion • Few observations sufficient • Can also be a field experiment, a theoretical model or the analysis of an existing data set • You can see me and David Huffman to discuss your suggestions Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 3/18 Information • Slides can be downloaded – www.iza.org/home/falk • Readers available at IZA Falk: Behavioral Labor Economics: Psychology of Incentives 4/18 Behavioral Economics: From the Nobel Prize laudation “Traditionally, economic theory has relied on the assumption of a "homo œconomicus", whose behavior is governed by self-interest and who is capable of rational decision-making. Economics has also been regarded as a non-experimental science, where researchers – as in astronomy or meteorology – have had to rely exclusively on field data, that is, direct observations of the real world.
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Patience and Comparative Development* Thomas Dohmen Benjamin Enke Armin Falk David Huffman Uwe Sunde May 29, 2018 Abstract This paper studies the role of heterogeneity in patience for comparative devel- opment. The empirical analysis is based on a simple OLG model in which patience drives the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, productivity improve- ments, and hence income. Based on a globally representative dataset on patience in 76 countries, we study the implications of the model through a combination of reduced-form estimations and simulations. In the data, patience is strongly corre- lated with income levels, income growth, and the accumulation of physical capital, human capital, and productivity. These relationships hold across countries, sub- national regions, and individuals. In the reduced-form analyses, the quantitative magnitude of the relationship between patience and income strongly increases in the level of aggregation. A simple parameterized version of the model generates comparable aggregation effects as a result of production complementarities and equilibrium effects, and illustrates that variation in preference endowments can account for a considerable part of the observed variation in per capita income. JEL classification: D03, D90, O10, O30, O40. Keywords: Patience; comparative development; factor accumulation. *Armin Falk acknowledges financial support from the European Research Council through ERC # 209214. Dohmen, Falk: University of Bonn, Department of Economics; [email protected], [email protected]. Enke: Harvard University, Department of Economics; [email protected]. Huffman: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics; huff[email protected]. Sunde: University of Munich, Department of Economics; [email protected]. 1 Introduction A long stream of research in development accounting has documented that both pro- duction factors and productivity play an important role in explaining cross-country income differences (Hall and Jones, 1999; Caselli, 2005; Hsieh and Klenow, 2010).
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