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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 … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers’ work. …
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employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that the Intuitive Criterion does not always … select a unique separating equilibrium. When the Intuitive Criterion bites and information is purely asymmetric, the … uncertain about their productivity, the separating level of education is ambiguously related to the speed of employer learning. …
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and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of …
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biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …
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information on the value of the IV. This leads to violation of the exclusion restriction. We analyze this in a dynamic economic …
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This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … information responses between socio-economic groups. …
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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...
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, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …
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Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and … subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to … updating by comparing the elicited priors and posteriors of voters, finding heterogeneous responses to information. Based on …
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understand better how subjects with different cognitive abilities learn differently, we estimate a structural model of learning … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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