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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals

Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...

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Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large

MacLeod, W. Bentley; Urquiola, Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling services in a free market ((Friedman (1955, 1962)). Hoxby...

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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence

Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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. …This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on …

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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...

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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...

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The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games

Waddell, Glen R.; Lee, Logan M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We model a hiring process in which the candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of the firm who each observe an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. We introduce the potential for taste-based discrimination and characterize how one agent's private valuation of the...

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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US

Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....

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Referee Bias

Dohmen, Thomas; Sauermann, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when unbiased referee judgment is vital for the accomplishment of the principal's objective. Answering...

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Mind the Gap: Crowd-Funding and the Role of Seed Money

Deutsch, Joseph; Epstein, Gil S.; Nir, Alon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model and analyze two sets of naturally occurring data from crowd-funding platforms. After developing the...

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Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use

Anderson, D. Mark; Hansen, Benjamin; Rees, Daniel I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

While at least a dozen state legislatures are considering bills to allow the consumption of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the federal government has recently intensified its efforts to close medical marijuana dispensaries. Federal officials contend that the legalization of medical marijuana...

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