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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015
of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize … from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …
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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016
In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502553
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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers
Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347136
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Choking under pressure : evidence of the causal effect of audience size on performance
Böheim, René; Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario - 2018
We analyze performance under pressure and estimate the causal effect of audience size on the success of free throws in top-level professional basketball. We use data from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the seasons 2007/08 through 2015/16. We exploit the exogenous variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902754
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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021
One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431585
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Performance costs and benefits of collective turnover : a theory-driven measurement framework and applications
Zubanov, Nick; Shakina, Elena - 2023
Building on job matching theory, we model the effect of collective turnover on workplace performance as the total of its costs from operational disruptions and benefits from better job-worker match quality, each component varying with turnover level. The resulting theoretical...
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Curbing cream-skimming : evidence on enrolment incentives
Courty, Pascal (contributor); Kim, Do Han (contributor);  … - 2008
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training program, we investigate whether the use of enrolment incentives that set different 'shadow prices'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793550
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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution : evidence from performance measures
Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689037
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Trends in economic research : an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941673
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Gender differences in business performance : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759326