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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...
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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers
Dahlstrand-Rudin, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024
Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A. (contributor);  … - 2008
increases donated labor. -- Donated labor ; intrinsic motivation ; non-profit organizations ; power within organizations …
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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...
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Effects of e-commerce on local labor markets
Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofia - 2023
This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...
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Consumer search costs and preferences on the internet
Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - 2014
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …
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On the validity of using webpage texts to identify the target population of a survey : an application to detect online platforms
Daas, Piet J. H.; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Klijs, Bart - 2023
A statistical classification model was developed to identify online platform organizations based on the texts on their website. The model was subsequently used to identify all (potential) platform organizations with a website included in the Dutch Business Register. The empirical outcomes of the...
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The internet as a data source for advancement in social sciences
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It … discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and presents a selection of the relevant literature …. Internet data can successfully be applied to a very wide range of human resource issues including forecasting (e.g. of …
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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2014
their public service motivation, as measured by their propensity to volunteer, using a representative sample of elderly …
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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector : evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010
psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to … build psychological factors, like intrinsic motivations, into their models. Besley and Ghatak (2005) propose that … cohort study. We generate two proxies for intrinsic motivations: a survey-based measure of the health professionals …
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