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The Costs and Benefits of Clan Culture : Elite Control versus Cooperation in China
Chen, Shuo; Fisman, Raymond; Lan, Xiaohuan; Wang, Yongxiang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits - or lack thereof - depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study how the prevalence of clan ties affect how communities confronted two well-studied...
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Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills : Re-Opening the Debate
Broecke, Stijn - 2016
Inequality in the United States is high by international standards, and keeps rising. This is likely to bring significant social as well as economic costs, including lower growth. In this paper, we use the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to revisit the debate on the relative importance of skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456709
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Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?
Card, David - 2014
Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K-12 students. As in the debate over selective college admissions, a key issue is targeting. Should gifted and talented programs be allocated on the basis of cognitive ability, or a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458215
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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
Breza, Emily - 2016
-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456186
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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
Ichniowski, Casey - 2014
explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458190
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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom
De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013
Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459461
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Peer Advice on Financial Decisions : A case of the blind leading the blind?
Ambuehl, Sandro - 2018
experiment, face-to-face communication with a randomly assigned peer significantly improves the quality of private decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480687
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Networks and Workouts : Treatment Size and Status Specific Peer Effects in a Randomized Field Experiment
Babcock, Philip S. - 2010
the estimation of spillovers. In a field experiment using university students, we find that subjects who have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462076
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Peer Effects in the Workplace : Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments
Guryan, Jonathan - 2007
, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the workplace from laboratory experiments, grocery scanners, and soft …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465227
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How Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Ability Tracking
Kimbrough, Erik O. - 2017
curriculum and the instructional behavior of teachers. To fill this gap, we conduct a laboratory experiment in which subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455242