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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance
Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
tournament-based scheme vs. a fixed pay scheme. The experiment allows for the measurement of creative productivity, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213916
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283661
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615602
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Evaluating environmental programs: the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
when controlled experiments are not a viable option, appropriate approaches might succeed where traditional empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098406
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Product innovation and product innovation marketing: theory and microeconometric evidence
Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper derives a three stage Cournot?oligopoly game for product innovation, expenditure on introducing the product … and competition on the product market. Product innovation is assumed to increase consumer utility but is effective only if … decide whether or not to conduct product innovation and then determine their expenditure for bringing the new product to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098359
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Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas; Paolacci, Gabriele; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was generally detrimental for the public good provision. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369492
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Tax compliance under tax regime changes
Heinemann, Friedrich; Kocher, Martin G. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this paper we focus on the compliance effects of tax regime changes. According to the economic model of tax evasion, a tax reform should affect compliance through its impact on tax rates and incentives. Our findings demonstrate the importance of at least two further effects not covered by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536036
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Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school
Sprietsma, Maresa - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper studies the effect of teacher expectations on essay grades in an experimental setting. To this purpose, we randomly assign Turkish or German first names to a set of essays so that some teachers believe a given essay was written by a German native pupil, whereas others believe it was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474670
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Workers into Managers: Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers
Rappe, Christoph; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
. Finally, a quasi-experiment shows that a combination of workshops and individual coaching had measurable effects on leadership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097627
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On the construction of social preferences in lab experiments
Borgloh, Sarah; Dannenberg, Astrid; Aretz, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper studies the construction of social preferences in the lab. Experimental subjects have the opportunity to donate to a charity and to allocate money in a conventional dictator game. The results show that charitable donations and dictator game allocations are positively correlated. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756432