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performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …
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traits on performance. We find that more neurotic subjects perform worse, and that more conscientious individuals perform … affect the impact of the Big Five personality traits on performance. …
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effect of psychological momentum on performance. We find that men's performance is significantly affected by psychological … line with evidence in the biological literature that testosterone, which is known to enhance performance of both men and …
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We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …
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The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...
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paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …
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This study analyzes how individuals evaluate their peers' performance in a high stakes tournament in response to being … how age diverse groups affect individual performance in professional golf tournaments. The results show that peer and … superior evaluations as well as individual performance are lower in age diverse groups. Further evidence suggests that these …
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, England, Italy and Portugal) for the last 10 championships and compare several outcomes (determined by players' performance … advantage emerges in various measures of performance (points, goals, shots, etc.), this advantage is almost halved when matches …
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The order of actions in contests may generate different psychological effects which, in turn, may influence contestants' probabilities to win. The Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence in which the first 'n' moves is the exact mirror image of the next 'n' moves should theoretically terminate any advantage...
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