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Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a … dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical … to be used more widely in strategy research, leveraging methodological innovations from other disciplines to address …
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We design a new field experiment to test pro-social behaviour: will a household return a letter that has been incorrectly addressed? On average, we find that half of all letters were returned. Return rates do not vary significantly according to the gender, race or ethnicity of the fictitious...
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education and home visits to disadvantaged children during their preschool years. It was evaluated by the method of random …
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Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical …
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characteristics that affect hiring. The method is applied to actual data and assessed using Monte Carlo methods. -- discrimination …
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Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...
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The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
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