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A Price is a signal: on intrinsic motivation and crowding-out

Bolle, Friedel - 2007

If a previously unpaid activity (donating blood) is paid then we often observe that this activity is reduced. In this paper, it is hypothesised that the price offered is taken as a proxy for the "market value" of the activity. Depending on how the actor valued the activity previously,...

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Skills, Signals, and Employability: An Experimental Investigation

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill … signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among which we ask a large representative sample of German human …

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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education

Weber, Richard; von Graevenitz, Georg; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009

. We develop a theoretical model of Bayesian learning in which entrepreneurship education generates signals which help …. Our tests of Bayesian updating provide support for the notion that students receive valuable signals and learn about their …

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Common agency with informed principals: Menus and signals

Galperti, Simone - 2011

-talk signals. Next, I characterize the outcomes of arbitrary games without delegation as outcomes of a new game in which principals …

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An Alternative Approach To Value / Price Theory

Gürak, Hasan - 2004

Modern economic science has become a grand parable, the study of a virtual economic world where the interactive robots engage in mechanical relationships. Although the natural sciences that initially inspired many economists has undergone drastic changes since Newton's era, modern economic...

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On the design of criminal trials: The benefits of a three-verdict system

Siegel, Ron; Strulovici, Bruno - 2015

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Ex-Post Optimal Knapsack Procurement

Jarman, Felix; Meisner, Vincent - 2017

We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who selects an optimal set of projects to maximize her utility. Projects may differ in their value for the designer, and their cost is private information. In this allocation problem, the quantity of procured projects is endogenously determined...

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Sanctioning and Trustworthiness Across Ethnic Groups: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Levely, Ian; Bartos, Vojtech - 2018

We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii) ethnic identity. We find that sanctioning increases...

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Responsibility-Shifting through Delegation: Evidence from China's One-Child Policy

Liu, Yiming; Han, Yi - 2023

We provide evidence on how responsibility-shifting through delegation occurred in China's implementation of the one-child policy. We show that trust in local governments was reduced when they were the primary enforcer of the policy (1979–1990), while trust in neighbors was reduced when...

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A complexity approach for public policies

Furtado, Bernardo Alves; Sakowski, Patrícia Alessandra … - 2015

Complex systems' approach and methodologies emphasize interactions, diversity and dynamics. Complex systems perspectives also enable public policies to be considered comprehensively and simulated in all their multiplicity of sectors and scales, of cause and effect. This paper attempts to...

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