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Own motivation, peer motivation, and educational success

Bietenbeck, Jan - 2020

I study how motivation shapes own and peers' educational success. Using data from Project STAR, I ﬁnd that academic … motivation in early elementary school, as measured by a standardized psychological test, predicts contemporaneous and future test … motivation does not affect longer-term educational success, likely because it does not change own motivation. …

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Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts : theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Arshad, Junaid; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2019

Microfinance contracts have enormous economic and welfare significance. We study, theoretically and empirically, the problem of effort choice under individual liability (IL) and joint liability (JL) contracts when loan repayments are made either privately, or publicly in front of one's social...

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Social exchange and common agency in organizations

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Roelfsema, Hein (contributor) - 2007

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Gift exchange in the workplace : money or attention?

Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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The lure of authority : motivation and incentive effects of power

Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - 2012

origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in …

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Social interaction, co-Worker altruism, and incentives

Dur, Robert A. J. (contributor); Sol, Joeri (contributor) - 2008

Social interaction with colleagues is an important job attribute for many workers. To attract and retain workers, managers therefore need to think about how to create and preserve high-quality co-worker relationships. This paper develops a principal-multi-agent model where agents do not only...

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Measuring indirect effects of unfair employer behavior on worker productivity : a field experiment

Heinz, Matthias; Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa; … - 2017

We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...

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Perceived legitimacy and motivation effects of authority

Herz, Holger; Zihlmann, Christian - 2024

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in … organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived …

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Social interaction and sickness absence

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor); Palme, Mårten (contributor); … - 2008

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Noblesse oblige? : determinants of survival in a life and death situation

Frey, Bruno S. (contributor); Savage, David A. (contributor) - 2008

This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...

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