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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra; Kumler, Todd J.; Linden, Leigh L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students’ scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144846
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Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam
Dinh, Ngan; Hughes, Conor; Hughes, James W.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed intent of governments around the world to put an end to "modern day slavery", there is very little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095494
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The Literacy Hour
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
compulsory education (age 16). We find a larger increase in attainment in reading and English for pupils in NLP schools as … Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary schools in 1997 and 1998. We compare the reading and overall … English attainment of children in NLP schools as compared to a set of control schools at the end of primary school education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703795
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Fehrler, Sebastian; Kosfeld, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mission-oriented organizations is important to explain empirical findings of lower wages and high motivation in the latter. …
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Incentives and Group Identity
Masella, Paolo; Meier, Stephan; Zahn, Philipp - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental effect. We show experimentally that in all interactions control mechanisms can have hidden...
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Laws and Norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences ("values"), material or other explicit incentives ("laws") and social sanctions or rewards ("norms"). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646323
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the true motive for which good deeds are performed and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703171
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Performance Pay, Group Selection and Group Performance
Königstein, Manfred; Ruchala, Gabriele K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
in work groups. The selection effect is larger than the motivation effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822552
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High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, W.S.; Wei, Xiangdong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763460
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
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