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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....

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Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Spatial Externalities: Reassessing the Progresa Program

Bobba, Matteo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014

This paper considers whether and how the evaluation results of a large-scale social policy in rural Mexico are sensitive to the local concentration of program beneficiaries. Combining evaluation survey data with geo-referenced information on the areas covered by the intervention, we find...

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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 … experiment settings in which students are plausibly randomly allocated to classes within high schools. Two estimation strategies … low-ability students, the effect amounts to minus 1 percentage point per "persistent classmate", without increasing the …

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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

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....

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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...

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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...

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The role of family incomes in cigarette smoking: Evidence from French students

Lakhdar, Christian Ben; Cauchie, Grégoire; Vaillant, … - HAL - 2012

In this paper, we study the smoking behavior of students aged from 18 to 25 using four cross-section data sets … students, only wages earned and transfers received from parents increase smoking participation. However, sensitivity to income … remains weak since a rise of 1% in income of either the students or their parents leads to an increase in smoking prevalence …

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Educational Quality, Communities, and Public School Choice: a Theoretical Analysis

Mostafa, Tarek; Hanchane, Saïd - HAL - 2007

In this paper, we develop a multicommunity model where public mixed finance and private schools coexist. Students are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618151

The impact of higher education on students' and young managers' perception of companies and corporate social responsibility: an exploratory analysis

Sobczak, André; Debucquet, Gervaise; Havard, Christelle - HAL - 2006

The purpose of this article is to analyse the impact of higher education on students' and young managers' perception of … companies and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The research is based on an electronic questionnaire for students and …

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