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The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real-Effort Tournament
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Franke, Jörg; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
Affirmative-action policies bias tournament rules in order to provide equal opportunities to a group of competitors who have a disadvantage they cannot be held responsible for. Critics argue that they distort incentives, resulting in lower individual performance, and that the selected pool of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547484
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Electoral Competition through Issue Selection
Aragonès, Enriqueta; Castanheira, Micael; Giani, Marco - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
voter priorities by emphasizing issues selectively during the political campaign. This phenomenon, known as priming, should …. In particular, we find that stronger priming effects can backfire by constraining parties to invest more resources in all … focus on their “historical issues†or to engage in issue stealing. Typically, the latter happens when priming effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132918
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The Rise and Decline of Children's Participation Levels during the Early Stages of Industrialization. Catalonia (1850-1925)
Camps, Enriqueta - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
This article aims to analyse the reasons for the intensive use of child labour in the 19th century and its subsequent decline in the first third of the 20th century in the context of an economy with a highly flexible labour supply like that of Catalonia. During the second half of the 19th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547523
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Choice By Sequential Procedures
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
We propose a rule of decision-making, the sequential procedure guided by routes, and show that three influential boundedly rational choice models can be equivalently understood as special cases of this rule. In addition, the sequential procedure guided by routes is instrumental in showing that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253109
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A Characterization of Sequential Rationalizability
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008
A choice function is sequentially rationalizable if there is an ordered collection of asymmetric binary relations that identifies the selected alternative in every choice problem. We propose a property, F-consistency, and show that it characterizes the notion of sequential rationalizability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253113
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A Measure of Rationality and Welfare
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
Evidence showing that individual behavior often deviates from the classical principle of preference maximization has raised at least two important questions: (i) How serious are the deviations? and (ii) What is the best way to analyse choice behavior in order to extract information for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255331
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Behavioral Assumptions and Management Ability
Arruñada, Benito; Vázquez, Xosé H. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
The paper explores the consequences that relying on different behavioral assumptions in training managers may have on their future performance. We argue that training with an emphasis on the standard assumptions used in economics (rationality and self-interest) is good for technical posts but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547261
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A Measure of Rationality and Welfare
Apesteguia, Jose; Ballester, Miguel Angel - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
There is ample evidence to show that choice behavior often deviates from the classical principle of maximization. This evidence raises at least two important questions: (i) how severe the deviation is and (ii) which method is the best for extracting relevant information from the choices of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547512
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Promoting Rule Compliance in Daily-Life: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Public Libraries of Barcelona
Apesteguia, Jose; Funk, Patricia; Iriberri, Nagore - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We study how to promote compliance with rules in every day situations. Having access to unique data on the universe of users of all public libraries in Barcelona, we test the effect of sending email messages with different contents. We find that users return their items earlier if asked to do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737377
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On the Relative Efficiency of Performance Pay and Social Incentives
Gneezy, Uri; Rey-Biel, Pedro - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011
to standard pay-for-performance incentives. We report evidence from a large field experiment comparing the effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851328