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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production setting where the principal has an interest … incentive system without changing the incentive system. The results indicate that salience of incentives itself is statistically … and economically important for performance. We find that higher salience of incentives for quantity increases quantity …
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Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure
Falk, Armin; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
While confounding factors typically jeopardise the possibility of using observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility of obtaining clean evidence. In this Paper we measure the output of four randomly selected groups of individuals who were asked to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123943
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Incentives Versus Sorting in Tournaments: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sonnemans, Joep; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
A vast body of empirical studies lends support to the incentive effects of rank-order tournaments. Evidence comes from experiments in laboratories and non-experimental studies exploiting sports or firm data. Selection of competitors across tournaments may bias these non-experimental studies,...
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Falk, Armin; Meier, Stephan; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Social preference research has fundamentally changed the way economists think about many important economic and social phenomena. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments with self-selected students as participants. This is potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642878
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Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving
Karlan, Dean S.; McConnell, Margaret - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Theories abound for why individuals give to charity. We conduct a field experiment with donors to a Yale University service club to test the impact of a promise of public recognition on giving. Some may claim that they respond to an offer of public recognition not to improve their social...
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Field Experiments with Firms
Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-monetary incentives. Field experiments across firms generally aim to uncover firms' binding constraints by exogenously varying the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493556
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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?
Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...
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The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Programme Evaluation
Falk, Armin; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
In this Paper, we suggest a novel approach to programme evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training programme on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak assumptions. The idea is to measure the programme-effects by pre- and post-treatment data...
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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Falk, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent to potential donors in the experiment. One third of the letters contained no gift, one third contained a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791952
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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence From a Field Experiment
Booth, Alison L; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia -- a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use distinctively Anglo-Saxon, Indigenous, Italian, Chinese, and...
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