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Learning from the Past : Trends in Executive Compensation over the Twentieth Century

Frydman, Carola - 2021

with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General …

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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The Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...

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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

International differences in teacher quality are commonly hypothesized to be a key determinant of the large international student performance gaps, but lack of consistent quality measures has precluded testing this. Using unique assessment data, we construct country-level measures of teacher...

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Does Long-Term Care Subsidisation Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalisations?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

(unnecessary) health care utilisation. This paper draws upon the quasi-experimental evidence from Spain to examine the causal …

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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility

Mion, Giordano - 2017

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

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Frustration and Anger in Games

Battigalli, Pierpaolo - 2015

Frustration, anger, and aggression have important consequences for economic and social behavior, concerning for example monopoly pricing, contracting, bargaining, traffic safety, violence, and politics. Drawing on insights from psychology, we develop a formal approach to exploring how...

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Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset...

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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity

Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2021

The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...

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