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How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes...
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spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of … domestic firms while horizontal and forward linkages show no consistent effect. We also examine how the strength of spillovers …
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growth spillovers via mechanisms beyond those previously established for R&D. …
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This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food …
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this …
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The literature documents that job satisfaction is positively correlated with worker performance and productivity. We examine whether aggregate job satisfaction in a certain labor market environment can have an impact on individual-level job satisfaction. If the answer is yes, then policies...
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% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important spillovers for untreated sectors in treated counties, untreated … counties connected via trade and local taxes, whereas we do not find spillovers on counties in the same local labor market. We …
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. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the …
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This paper analyzes how firms respond to changes in tax benefits for low-earning workers and how such policies also affect high-earning workers. I explore establishment outcomes around Germany's 2003 Mini-Job Reform, which expanded tax benefits for low-earning workers. I document that highly...
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