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The effect of age diversity in groups on peer evaluations and individual performance
Görlitz, Katja; Sels, Tim - 2021
This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being randomly assigned to an age homogenous or heterogeneous group using data from two TV shows. The data also allows us to explore superior evaluations because it contains objective...
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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance
Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021
reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …
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Multi-rater performance evaluations and incentives
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2024
We compare evaluations of employee performance by individuals and groups of supervisors, analyzing a formal model and running a laboratory experiment. The model predicts that multi-rater evaluations are more precise than single-rater evaluations if groups rationally aggregate their signals about...
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
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Income misperception and populism
Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Kosse, Fabian - 2022
We propose that false beliefs about the own current economic status are an important factor for explaining populist attitudes. Along with the subjects' receptiveness to right-wing populism, we elicit their perceived relative income positions in a representative survey of German households. We...
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The impact of Chernobyl on health and labour market performance in the Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009
positive association between local area-level radiation dosage and health perception based on self-reported poor health status …
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The prostitute's allure : examining returns to beauty, productivity and discrimination
Arunachalam, Raj; Shah, Manisha - 2010
We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...
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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias : is it risk-love or misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
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Hidden skewness
Ensthaler, Ludwig; Nottmeyer, Olga; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780291
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Preferences, intentions, and expectations: a large-scale experiment with a representative subject pool
Bellemare, Charles (contributor);  … - 2007
We specify and estimate an econometric model which separately identifies distributional preferences and the effects of perceived intentions on responder behavior in the ultimatum game. We allow the effects of perceived intentions to depend, among other things, on the subjective probabilities...
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