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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. -- Performance …
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under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. … concerned committee members receive private information of different type-dependent accuracy, deliberate and vote. We study … affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
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beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a … information is readily available as in height and weight. We present evidence from our experiment that limited attention and self …
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the employer's knowledge (information) regarding the employees' productivity levels on the total time spent by the workers …
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provision of structured information on the true state of the academic market and information through role models on non …
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Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational … predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost of information or stronger priors are less responsive to variations in … economic conditions at destination, as migrants rationally get less information before deciding where to move. The econometric …
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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health services. A large employer e-mailed individually-targeted health education encouraging high-value care to high-risk employees. Weeks before the program launched, a company...
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education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
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comparative evidence on public preferences for education spending, we conduct representative experiments with information …, providing information about actual spending and salary levels reduces support for increased education spending from 54 to 40 … preferences are similar across the three countries when the role of status-quo and information are taken into account. …
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Brazilian health authorities have recommended that pregnant women take meticulous precaution to avoid mosquito bites, and use contraceptive methods to postpone/delay pregnancies. In this article, we present new estimates on the Zika virus prevalence, its correlates and preventive behaviors in...
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