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Benchmarking regions : estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...

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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...

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Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2019

Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers' level of self-confidence...

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Disclosure, trust and persuasion in insurance markets

De Meza, David E.; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Reyniers, Diane J. - 2010

This high-stakes experiment investigates the effect on buyers of mandatory disclosures concerning an insurance policy's value for money (the claims ratio) and the seller's commission. These information disclosures have virtually no effect despite most buyers claiming to value such information....

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Information, market incentives, and student performance

Camargo, Braz; Camelo, Rafael de Sousa; Firpo, Sérgio … - 2014

This paper uses a discontinuity on the test score disclosure rules of the National Secondary Education Examination in Brazil to test whether test score disclosure affects student performance, the composition of students in schools, and school observable inputs. We find that test score disclosure...

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Regulation and firm value : curious case of transparency and disclosure laws in Russia

Banerjee, Suman; Masulis, Ronald W.; Pal, Sarmistha - 2016

accounting information post reform. Also, T&D reforms had negligible effects on cross-listed firms that act as our control group …. Further, for domestically listed firms without a domestic controlling shareholder, post-reform reported earnings did not drop …, while firm value increased significantly. For the domestically listed firms with a controlling shareholder, just the …

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Corporate disclosure, compliance and consequences : evidence from Russia

Banerjee, Suman; Estrin, Saul; Pal, Sarmistha - 2022

Does the introduction of corporate transparency and disclosure rules in emerging economies affect compliance, and therefore earnings quality and firm performance? We explore these questions for an important emerging economy, Russia, using a natural experiment, the 2002 introduction of Russian...

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Pay gaps in the National Health Service: observability and disclosure

Mumford, Karen; Aguirre, Edith; Einarsdóttir, Anna; … - 2021

Studies of the relationship between sexual orientation and pay have faced difficulties applying standard models of discrimination if orientation is not observable. Analogously, behavioural explanations of pay based on models of gender linked within-household specialization may not be as relevant...

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CEO pay disclosure and within-firm wage inequality

Maida, Agata; Pezone, Vincenzo - 2024

We analyze the effect of CEO pay disclosure on wage distribution by exploiting a 1998 reform requiring Italian publicly listed companies to disclose top executives' compensation. In firms where CEOs disclose high total compensation, the top 5 percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage...

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The gender disclosure gap : salary history bans unravel when men volunteer their income

Agan, Amanda Y.; Cowgill, Bo; Gee, Laura K. - 2024

This study investigates whether the success of salary history bans could be limited by job-seekers volunteering their salaries unprompted. We survey American workers in 2019 and 2021 about their recent job searches, distinguishing when candidates were asked about salary history from when they...

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