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We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...
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services have grown substantially in recent decades, and the relative mental health benefits of religion as compared to secular …
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variation in TTO efficiency. Relative productivity may also depend on organizational practices in university management of …
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(learning how to use the current technology). Exploitation requires the development of organizations to coordinate the work of … experts, which takes time. The costs and benefits of such organizations depend on the cost of communicating and acquiring … through organizations increases relative to the payoff of new radical innovations …
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This paper examines the relationship between membership in social fraternities and sororities and binge drinking among 18-24 year old full-time four-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. To deal with unobserved heterogeneity in binge...
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Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types of inefficiencies and different biases in...
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This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities … coordination. In particular, specialization is often non-monotonic in the importance of coordination. (ii) Organizations exhibit … specialized task assignments, to very flexible organizations characterized by extensive task bundling, intensive horizontal …
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In the manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy, nearly 9% of output is not accounted for as payments to either physical capital or labor. The value of this output is a little larger than the value of the stock of physical capital. We build a model to measure how much of this output can be...
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