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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 …

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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 …

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Service quality planning for freight distribution with time windows in large networks

Deflorio, Francesco P.; Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Tadei, … - HAL - 2009

This paper introduces a methodology whose aim is to evaluate how the quality of a freight distribution service with time windows, which operates on a given road network to satisfy a number of requests, affects the total cost of the distribution service . The result of a service quality setting,...

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Internal marketing as a new alternative for the service employees' performance: an empirical study

Bellaouaied, Myriam; Gam, Abdelkader - HAL - 2011

The increasing importance of relational marketing in the service sector as underlined by several authors and particularly by Berry (1983) culminates in a new marketing orientation toward internal marketing, even suggesting a significant impact of the latter on service quality perception. Several...

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Front-line Employee versus Customer Perceptions of Quality Attributes

Julien, Anne; Tsoni, Christina - HAL - 2013

In order to improve the quality of service co-production, both academics and managers have pointed out the pivotal role of front-line employees (FLEs) in improving the service experience. Few studies, however, have simultaneously examined the quality perceptions of each group. Do FLEs perceive...

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RELATIONSHIP MARKETING OF SERVICES: AN ANALYSIS OF SERVICE QUALITY AND SERVICE ENCOUNTERS THROUGH RELATIONAL NORMS -A DYADIC APPROACH BETWEEN BANK ACCOUNT MANAGERS AND SMES -

Prim-Allaz, Isabelle - HAL - 1999

The combined pressures of desintermediation, deregulation, and industrial restructuring have helped to redefine the nature and importance of bank-client relationships (Schell, 1996). Directors or treasurers of companies often recognize that their relationship is with the bank account manager,...

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The quality process as a management tool for public transport operators. The example of the EFQM Model through the franchise bidding process in the United Kingdom

Piraux, Jérémy - HAL - 2008

The quality process is a fashionable concept in public transport. Operators try to improve service quality and customer satisfaction, while public authorities impose the implementation of new quality processes in franchise contracts. EFQM differs from other quality models because of its global...

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Competition and Growth: Reinterpreting their Relationship

Onori, Daria - HAL - 2013

interval of values of the spillover parameter such that the relationship between competition and growth is an inverted-U-shape. …

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Competing with Equivocal Information

Perez-Richet, Eduardo - HAL - 2012

is high, a single sender never discloses. Competition restores full disclosure only if some of the senders are … symmetric equilibria approach full disclosure as competition increases. …

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Downstream Competition, Foreclosure and Vertical Integration

Chemla, Gilles; Chemla, Gilles - HAL - 2003

This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that …

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