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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

Sauermann, Henry - 2008

to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …

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Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital : Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Gompers, Paul - 2006

This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are more likely to succeed than first time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. Funding by more...

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Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Azoulay, Pierre - 2018

Many observers, and many investors, believe that young people are especially likely to produce the most successful new firms. We use administrative data at the U.S. Census Bureau to study the ages of founders of growth-oriented start-ups in the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful...

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Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions : Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability

Chou, Tiffany - 2017

Low- and middle-income college borrowers often struggle with economic opportunity and loan burdens after leaving school. However, some institutions, including some non-selective schools, do a good job of providing economic mobility to low-income students. This implies that there is scope for a...

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Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education

De Vlieger, Pieter - 2016

Instructors are a chief input into the higher education production process, yet we know very little about their role in promoting student success. This is in contrast to elementary and secondary schooling, for which ample evidence suggests teacher quality is an important determinant of student...

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Killer Incentives : Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II

Ager, Philipp - 2016

A growing theoretical and empirical literature shows that public recognition can lead employees to exert greater effort. However, status competition is also associated with excessive expenditure on status goods, greater likelihood of bankruptcy, and more risk taking by money managers. This paper...

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Fostering and Measuring Skills : Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success

Kautz, Tim - 2014

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills|personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in...

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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?

Greaney, Brian - 2013

This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups … innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by charging membership fees rather than following the status quo in which the … problem. Empirically, we evaluate this innovation in East Africa using a randomized control trial. We find that privatized …

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Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets

Lee, Soohyung - 2011

The large literature on costly signaling and the somewhat scant literature on preference signaling had varying success in showing the effectiveness of signals. We use a field experiment to show that even when everyone can send a signal, signals are free and the only costs are opportunity costs,...

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Waves of Creative Destruction : Customer Bases and the Dynamics of Innovation

Stein, Jeremy C. - 1994

This paper develops a model of repeated innovation with knowledge spillovers. The model's novel feature is that firms … compete on two dimensions: 1) product quality or cost, where one firm's innovation ultimately spills over to other firms; and … some circumstances dramatically reduce the long-run average level of innovation; 2) they lead to endogenous bunching, or …

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