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information about the habit \ formation model than the Euler equation. Therefore, the closed form solution allows for a more …
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This paper studies how morale in teams can break down. It interprets high morale as team members working together … productively, either because of a sense of fairness or because of implicit incentives from repeated interactions. Team members … encourage cooperation may actually hurt morale, by convincing opportunistic team members to imitate and later take advantage of …
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Organization differ in the degree to which they differentiate employees by ability. We analyse how the effect of differentiation on employee morale may explain this variation. By comparing employees using ordinary talk, a manager boosts the self-image of some, but hurts that of others. Whether...
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This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on …
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-exchange experiment. The promotion campaign allowed guests to pay any non negative amount of money for a stay in one of 36 hotels in …
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We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … tournament. Lastly, despite the substantial variation in team size, we find no evidence for free-riding. …
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randomized experiment. Half of the students who responded to an Internet questionnaire were given factual information on loan … part of agents’ information sets. This is illustrated by government student loans in the Netherlands which are intended to … this is due to limited knowledge about these conditions. We examine the importance of information constraints through a …
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In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …
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We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative … performance of the treatment stores. As predicted by theory, treatment stores that lag far behind do not respond to the incentives …
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conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are …
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