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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes
Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2013
We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739020
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Feedback and incentives: Experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay schemes and relative performance feedback policies on employee effort. We explore three feedback rules: No feedback on relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated feedback....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647581
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Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Spatial Externalities: Reassessing the Progresa Program
Bobba, Matteo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014
on the areas covered by the intervention, we find evidence of positive spillovers across villages on school participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751000
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Persistent Classmates: How Familiarity with Peers Protects from Disruptive School Transitions
Ly, Son Thierry; Riegert, Arnaud - HAL - 2013
Students' social networks are deeply disrupted during school transitions and students start in a classroom environment … during the transition to high school. To overcome the issue of endogenous selection across classes, we exploit rare natural … grade of middle school reduces substantially the risk of grade retention in 10th grade, but also in following grades. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739006
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791004
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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2012
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899503
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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work
Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - HAL - 2013
This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899799
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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Bourquin, Yannick - HAL - 2011
This paper provides evidence that local social interactions within etnic groups may explain the puzzling variations in labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second, by conveying information about job opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025562
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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living
Cuffe, Harold E.; Harbaugh, William T.; Lindo, Jason M.; … - HAL - 2011
We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401099
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The Brazilian organic food sector: Prospects and constraints of facilitating the inclusion of smallholders
Blanc, Julien; Kledal, Paul - HAL - 2012
The Brazilian organic food sector has experienced important growth during the last two decades. Brazilian smallholders, however, are facing huge challenges to enter and benefit from this growth in a sustainable way. Combining the lens of New Institutional Economics and socio-anthropology, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618110