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Talk or Text? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte, Lelys; Dominguez-Rivera, Patricio; … - 2022
Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...
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A Gift is Not Always a Gift : Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123801
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Sales Performance and Social Preferences
Essl, Andrea; von Bieberstein, Frauke; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2021
We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in other-regarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take the welfare of others into account but a significant fraction reveals self-regarding behavior....
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Communicating Subjective Evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2021
? Suppose a manager’s evaluation is private information. Justifying her evaluation is costly but limits the principal’s scope … for distorting her evaluation of the employee. I show that the manager justifies her evaluation if and only if the … employee’s performance was poor. The justification assures the employee that the manager has not distorted the evaluation …
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Meta-Analysis of the Business Cycle Correlation between the Euro Area and the Ceecs
Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2013
We review the literature on business cycle correlation between the euro area and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), a topic that has gained attention as the newest EU members approach monetary union. Our meta-analysis of 35 identified publications suggests some CEECs already...
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A Gift is not Always a Gift: Gift Exchange in a Voucher Experiment
Becker, Sascha O.; Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2011
Different from traditional gift exchange experiments, we study a field experiment where a random subsample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144874
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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What Drives Aggregate Investment? : Evidence from German Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger; Zorn, Peter - 2021
The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that these subjective investment determinants 1) capture...
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Demand for Sexual Services in Britain : Does Sex Education Matter?
Strøm, Steinar - 2018
We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain using data from Britain's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-2, 199-2001,Natsal-3, 2010-2012). The percentage of men asking for paid sex is about 12 per...
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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added
Imberman, Scott A. - 2013
Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …
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