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Choosing a partner for social exchange : charitable giving as a signal of trustworthiness

Fehrler, Sebastian; Przepiorka, Wojtek - 2016

People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange games, in which the trustor can choose the trustee, we study whether trustees can signal their...

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Women in the workplace and management practices : theory and evidence

Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2017

We review recent studies on management practices and their consequences for women in the workplace. First, the High Performance Work System (HPWS) is associated with greater gender diversity in the workplace while there is little evidence that the HPWS reduces the gender pay gap. Second,...

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Prosocial managers, employee motivation, and the creation of shareholder value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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The determinants of virtue : modelling changes in the CSR ratings of Chinese firms

Wu, Shuangqi; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Jinming, Wang - 2017

Most empirical studies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) use cross-sectional data or case studies, making causality hard to establish. We overcome this limitation by using panel data on Chinese firms. We find no effect of last year's profits on CSR ratings, although their negative...

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The hidden costs of choice in the labor market

Au, Pak Hung; Li, King King; Zhang, Qing; Zhu, Rong - 2023

Freedom of choice is often thought to improve efficiency. We experimentally investigate the effect of giving workers a choice between compensation schemes with and without a CSR component (CSR/NoCSR) on labor market participation decision and work performance, compared to the alternative of...

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Estimating the size of external effects of energy subsidies

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - 2015

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

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Something in the air? : pollution, allergens and children's cognitive functioning

Marcotte, Dave E. - 2016

Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not fully distinguished between contemporaneous and long-run effects. This paper contributes on both of...

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The effect of pollution on worker productivity : evidence from call-center workers in China

Chang, Tom; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Gross, Tal; … - 2016

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

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Air pollution affects decision-making: evidence from the ballot box

Bellani, Luna; Ceolotto, Stefano; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2021

in Germany over a nineteen-year period and exploit plausibly exogenous variation in ambient air pollution within counties …

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The spillover effects of pollution : how exposure to lead affects everyone in the classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - 2020

Evidence shows that lead-exposed children are more disruptive and have lower achievement. However, we know less about how lead-exposed children affect the learning environment of their classroom peers. We estimate these spillover effects using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs)...

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