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Procedures vs. incentives : the case of the university promotion system in Italy

Dal Maso, Carlo; Rettore, Enrico; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2015

A common observation is that individuals strive to neutralize the effect of procedural rules designed to drive choices away from their private optimum. An example of this phenomenon is offered by the reaction of Italian academia to two reforms that modified the procedures of recruitment and...

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Determinants of financial rewards from industry-university collaboration in South Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...

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A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relevance of academic and commercial logics

Cantner, Uwe; Doerr, Philip; Göthner, Maximilian; … - 2021

We analyze the influence of two contradicting settings on the success in the academic spin-off creation process. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to successfully found their firm. However, along this...

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The "gravity" of quality : research quality and universities' attractiveness in Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Verzillo, Stefano - 2017

This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of students over the period 2003-2011 are regressed on several universities' research quality indicators...

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Why has science become an old man's game?

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023

We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...

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Crowding-out or crowding-in? : heterogeneous effects of insurance on solidarity

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Henning, Karla; … - 2020

We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two … minimizes strategic concerns. The introduction of an insurance treatment alters solidarity in both experiments. We find crowding …

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Risky choices and solidarity : why experimental design matters

Wunsch, Conny; Strobl, Renate - 2018

Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of individuals facing negative income shocks based on randomized experiments. In this paper, we show that...

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Does voluntary risk taking affect solidarity? : experimental evidence from Kenya

Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 2017

In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance … subjects. The reduction of solidarity is driven by a change in giving behaviour of persons with the risky project. Compared to … to show solidarity is influenced by both the desire for own compensation and attributions of responsibility. Our findings …

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Insurance versus savings for the poor : why one should offer either both or none

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - 2012

and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … also test for the persistence of this crowding-out of solidarity. We find evidence for a reduction of solidarity by …

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Social distance and trust : experimental evidence from a slum in Cairo

Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - 2013

exchanges with few information asymmetries. -- trust ; social distance ; hidden action ; solidarity ; economic development …

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