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prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the … crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study behavior in a p-beauty contest experiment … ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
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With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios … changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
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Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
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and are nationally representative of the Chinese population in this age span. Our measures of cognition in CHARLS relies … on two measures that proxy for different dimensions of adult cognition – episodic memory and intact mental status. We … people. These gender differences in cognition are especially concentrated in the older age groups and poorer communities …
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students …
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aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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