incorporates endogenous product selection within firms. Our findings suggest that product switching contributes to a reallocation …

This paper studies employer recruitment and selection of job applicants when productivity is match-specific. Job …

penalties are infrequently used in practice. The most obvious explanation is selection: loss averse agents are unwilling to … 25 percent more likely to accept penalty contracts, with no evidence of adverse or advantageous selection. Consistent … with the existing literature, penalty contracts also increased performance on the job by 0.2 standard deviations. I outline …

-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a ¿selection¿ effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects …

. In a natural experiment, we study the gender difference in performance resulting from changes in stakes. We use detailed … information on the performance of high-school students and exploit the variation in the stakes of tests, which range from 5% to 27 …

We analyze the impact of interim ranking on the risk taking and performance behaviour of professional athletes …

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

to performance. For the first time we employ a Hodrick-Prescott Filter, a methodology widely used in macroeconomics to …

the hypothesis that ownership-specific advantages are a major determinant of performance differences. This paper explores … performance issues using the eclectic paradigm configuration of hotel and hospitality multinationals (NACE=55), operating in …