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Employee recognition and performance: A field experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...

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Choosing your object of benevolence: a field experiment on donation options

Aretz, Bodo; Kube, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

In a large natural field experiment, we explore the effect of providing donors with the opportunity to choose the target country for their donations. We find that only a small fraction of donors use the option, which might reflect a reluctance to consider tradeoffs when those concern important,...

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Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We manipulate workers' perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

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Gender differences in business success of German start-up firms

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

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Home computers and educational outcomes: evidence from the NLSY97 and CPS

Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2008

Although computers are universal in the classroom, nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have … computers in their homes. Surprisingly, only a few previous studies explore the role of home computers in the educational … process. Home computers might be very useful for completing school assignments, but they might also represent a distraction …

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Applying a gender lens to science, technology and innovation

2011

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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...

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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...

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Tax compliance and information provision: A field experiment with small firms

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Schmitz, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

We study tax compliance in Slovenia using data generated in a field experiment. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first treatment group received a letter that highlighted the importance of paying taxes and...

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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers

Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother's impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a...

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