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China’s Belt and Road Initiative was introduced in 2013 to revitalise the Silk Road and promote economic development and integration. This paper investigates the economic effects of the opening of the only high-speed rail (HSR) line in northwest China which connects China’s northwestern...
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The focus of this study is to assess the causal impact of the connection of a local area to a high-speed rail network (HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia is exploited in a Difference-in Differences...
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This paper analyses whether individuals are influenced by the day of the week when reporting subjective well-being. By using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day-of the-week effect. Overall, we find a 'blue' Sunday...
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teams to score in the last minute – including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …
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This paper comprehensively studies the health effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) regulation. Relying on up to 3 ….4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do …
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, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the …
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Using data on a sample of manufacturing establishments in Germany, we find that the use of self-managed teams is …
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose work effort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for both tasks as offered...
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themselves have evaluated before. -- Subjective performance evaluation ; bias ; social ties ; team size ; favoritism …
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We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1 … performance and relies on flexible task allocation among employees. On average, the team bonus increases sales and customer visits …
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