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Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Shaking things up : on the stability of risk and time preferences

Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud; Joxhe, … - 2020

We conduct a survey and incentivized lab-in-the-field experimental tasks in Tirana, Albania. While the original purpose of our study was to examine whether and how deep parameters such as time and risk preferences affect the intention to migrate, our study was transformed into a natural...

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The adoption and diffusion of organizational innovation : evidence for the US economy

Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2007

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...

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When knowledge is an asset : explaining the organizational structure of large law firms

Rebitzer, James B. (contributor); … - 2006

We study the economics of employment relationships through theoretical and empirical analysis of an unusual set of firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the "property rights" approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership's legal rights to control important, non-human assets of...

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Team incentives : evidence from a firm level experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Barankay, Iwan; Rasul, Imran - 2012

Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team composition. We present evidence from a field experiment...

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Measuring organizational capital in the new economy

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2005

A growing body of literature over the past decade suggests that a firm's organizational structure/capital can contribute in significant ways to the productive capacity of a firm. But, as with other intangible assets, there is no consensus definition of what this organizational capital is, how to...

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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

information to top decision makers, possibly through skip-level reporting, and hence reducing communication costs. …

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Resource misallocation in European firms : the role of constraints, firm characteristics and managerial decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Švejnar, Jan; … - 2018

Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...

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Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases

Oechssler, Joerg (contributor); Roider, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

We use a simple, three-item test for cognitive abilities to investigate whether established behavioral biases that play a prominent role in behavioral economics and finance are related to cognitive abilities. We find that higher test scores on the Cognitive Reflection Test of Frederick (2005)...

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Are children decision-makers within the household?

Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - 2008

capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated …); Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the … decision-making process within households composed of two adults and one child of at least 16 years of age. We first summarize …

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