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Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing incentives for effort in developing ideas) and 'bad' (preventing voluntary …

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From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency

Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks … by demonstrating that transparency can actually hurt incentives. In the presence of career concerns information on the … quality of task execution improves incentives while sustaining a cooperative team spirit. In contrast, making the identity of …

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Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

On normal days, the temperature decreases with altitude, allowing air pollutants to rise and disperse. During inversion episodes, a warmer air layer at higher altitude traps pollutants close to the ground. We show how readily available NASA satellite data on vertical temperature profiles can be...

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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...

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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests

Alix-Garcia, Jennifer; Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

. This paper reviews the theory and evidence surrounding forest-related Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes intended …

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Diversity and Public Goods: A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation

Algan, Yann; Hémet, Camille; Laitin, David D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning in Privileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its members find it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherent asymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informal sanctioning harder to accomplish....

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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is accomplished, and how conflicts are resolved. This paper offers a conceptual foundation for...

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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation

Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...

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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement

Hoff, Karla; Kshetramade, Mayuresh; Fehr, Ernst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. Here we study how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy – the caste system – affects individuals'...

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