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Does Relative Grading help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
Czibor, Eszter; Onderstal, Sander; Sloof, Randolph; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately …
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The Value of an Educated Population for an Individual's Entrepreneurship Success
Millan, Jose Maria; Congregado, Emilio; Roman, Concepcion; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of the … possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus shape the …
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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The Degradation of Distorted Performance Measures
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...
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Testing for Distortions in Performance Measures: An Application to Residual Income Based Measures like Economic Value Added
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the 'Journal of Economics and Management Strategy', forthcoming.<P> Distorted performance measures in compensation contracts elicit suboptimal behavioral responses that may even prove to be dysfunctional (gaming). This paper applies the empirical...</p>
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