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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation : The Case of the Craft Guild

Richardson, Gary - 2008

When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an important role in shaping economic institutions. This insight explains why during the fourteenth century, when plagues decimated populations and the church promoted the doctrine of...

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Salience

Bordalo, Pedro; Gennaioli, Nicola; Shleifer, Andrei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention "bottom up" due to their high contrast with surroundings, their surprising nature relative to recalled experiences, or their prominence. The Bordalo,...

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Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation : a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica

Gertler, Paul - 2013

life inequality …

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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

Cunha, Flavio - 2009

Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence …

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Inequality when Effort Matters

Ravallion, Martin - 2015

It is sometimes argued that poorer people choose to work less, implying less welfare inequality than suggested by … measures of inequality (in outcomes or opportunities) do not, however, measure incomes consistently with personal choices of … effort. The direction of bias is unclear given the heterogeneity in efforts and preferences. Data on the labor supplies of …

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Cognitive Biases : Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

Enke, Benjamin; Genîzî, Ûrî; Hall, Brian J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

reliance on intuitions. In none of the tasks are very high stakes sufficient to de-bias participants, or come even close to …

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Restructuring

Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery : Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain - 1999

Recent work linking the adoption of key organizational practices to productivity raises an important question: if adoption increases productivity so dramatically, why does adoption across an industry take so long? This paper explores this question in the context of one particularly interesting...

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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?

Greenan, Nathalie - 1999

In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...

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Local Academic Science Driving Organizational Change : The Adoption of Biotechnology by Japanese Firms

Darby, Michael R. - 1999

The local academic science base plays a dominant role in determining where and when biotechnology is adopted by existing firms or -- much more frequently -- exploited by new entrants in the U.S. In Japan this new dominant technology has almost exclusively been introduced through organizational...

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