Everyday, we are bombarded with periodic, exogenous appeals and instructions on how to behave. How do these appeals and instructions affect subsequent coordination? Using experimental methods, we investigate how a one-time exogenous instruction affects subsequent coordination among individuals in a lab. Participants play a minimum effort game repeated 5 times under fixed matching with a one-time behavioral instruction in either the first or second round. Since coordination behavior may vary across countries, we run experiments in Denmark, Spain and Ghana, and map crosscountry rankings in coordination with known national measures of fractualization, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. Our results show that exogenous interventions increase subsequent coordination, with earlier interventions yielding better coordination than later interventions. We also find that crosscountry rankings in coordination map with published national measures of fractualiza-tion, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation.
We present the first hedonic house price indexes for Costa Rica at the national and provincial level, and for both the public and private sectors. Our indexes, which focus on building costs, show that the real quality-adjusted price of new residential structures rose by 10 percent over the period 2000-2013. Important differences emerge when we compare the public and private sectors. The average quality of private housing rose strongly during our sample period, while the average quality of public housing fell. Recipients of public housing therefore became worse off. The fall in quality was matched by a fall in price in the public sector, and hence generated cost savings for the government. Also, by estimating separate hedonic models for the public and private sectors, we show that public sector housing would not be produced more cheaply in the private sector. In this sense the public sector seems quite efficient. (JEL. C43; E31; R28; R31)
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