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Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

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Peer effects, social multipliers and migrants at school : an international comparison

Entorf, Horst (contributor); Lauk, Martina (contributor) - 2006

This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social...

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The impact of social comparisons on reciprocity

Gächter, Simon (contributor); Nosenzo, Daniele (contributor) - 2008

We investigate the effects of pay comparison information (i.e. information about what co-workers earn) and effort … comparison information (information about how co-workers perform) in experimental firms composed of one employer and two … employees. Exposure to pay comparison information in isolation from effort comparison information does not appear to affect …

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Social responsibility in market interaction

Irlenbusch, Bernd; Saxler, David - 2015

A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of responsibility, social information, and market framing, and provide evidence for how these characteristics...

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On the equilibrium and welfare consequences of "keeping up with the Joneses"

Gavrel, Frédéric; Rebière, Thérèse - 2015

This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...

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Time, money, peers, and parents : some data and theories on teenage behavior

Kooreman, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Choosing the Joneses : endogenous goals and reference standards

Falk, Armin (contributor); Knell, Markus (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Social identity, behavior, and personality: evidence from India

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

Hierarchies in social identities have been found to be integrally related to divergences in economic status. In India … of affirmative action policies in India as well as targeting interventions with an aim to improving soft skills among the …

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Using social connections and financial incentives to solve coordination failure : a quasi-field experiment in India's manufacturing sector

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Li, Sherry Xin; … - 2018

Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line production in a lab-in-the-field experiment in which...

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Social incentives in the workplace

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2009

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers' behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensation scheme in...

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