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Responding to (un)reasonable requests
Pelligra, Vittorio; Reggiani, Tommaso; Zizzo, Daniel John - 2016
We consider the notions of static and dynamic reasonableness of requests in a trust game experiment. We vary …
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Laws, costs, norms, and learning : improving working conditions in developing countries
Brown, Drusilla K.; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Robertson, Raymond - 2016
theoretic and empirical work suggests that norms and learning may play a significant role in determining conditions. We exploit … that reveals the relative contributions of laws, costs, norms, and learning in improving working conditions in Cambodia …
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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads …
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Narratives, imperatives, and moral reasoning
Bénabou, Roland; Falk, Armin; Tirole, Jean - 2018
, responsibilizing narratives can help sustain better social norms. We investigate when narratives emerge from a principal or the actor …
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Gender economics: an assessment
Sevilla, Almudena - 2020
Concerns about gender equality have jumped to the forefront of public debate in recent years, and Gender Economics is slowly affirming its place as a major field of study. This assessment examines where we are in terms of gender equality. It reviews the theoretical foundations that can explain...
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
preferences, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
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Separate housework spheres
Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024
Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of...
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Hidden action, identification, and organization design
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010
. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any … moral hazard models yields insights into optimal organization design, uncovers the reason why certain organization designs …-tasking problem. -- moral hazard ; hidden action ; implementation ; multi-tasking ; identification by organization design …
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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation
Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020
This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...
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