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Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Gong, Erick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well … real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missions. Weeks before the …

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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also … constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate whether this social aspect of organizations has an important benefit … willingness to enforce a norm of cooperation towards fellow platoon members. This suggests that the social aspect of organizations …

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Field Experiments with Firms

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, and draw common lessons from both sets. Field experiments within firms generally aim to shed light...

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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and...

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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior

Heineck, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is … and church attendance. Despite the historic divide in religion, results in West and East Germany do not differ …

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The Effect of Behavioral Codes and Gender on Honesty

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Siniver, Erez; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...

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Religion and Innovation

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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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Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors

Delaney, Jason J.; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...

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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Judaism in the first half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion, and …

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