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Peacefully demobilizing rebels : identity, emotional cues, and the FARC
Aparicio, Juan P.; Jetter, Michael; Parsons, Christopher R. - 2023
In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
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Does war foster cooperation or parochialism? : evidence from a natural experiment among Turkish conscripts
Kıbrıs, Arzu; Cesur, Resul - 2023
conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014228961
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UN interventions : the role of geography
Duque, Juan Carlos; Jetter, Michael; Sosa, Santiago - 2014
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
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Empowerment or indoctrination? : female training programs under dictatorship
González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu; Dessauer, Cristine von - 2024
Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990), where conservative military forces controlled female social organizations to promote traditional roles for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with...
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Strategic mismatches in competing teams
Kräkel, Matthias - 1999
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the … formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage …
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Group (re-)formation in public good games : the tale of the bad apple
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten - 2016
We analyze how different previous roles as partners or strangers in public good games affect an individual's subsequent cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition from all individuals being partner over blended groups of partners and strangers to all...
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The effect of announced downsizing on workplace performance : evidence from a retail Chain
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; Zubanov, Nick - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Decisions on extending group membership : evidence from a public good experiment
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine; Thommes, Kirsten; … - 2019
We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare an exogenous and an endogenous decision mechanism to extend the temporary agent's group...
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Why join a team?
Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista Jabs; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2019
We present experiments exploring why high ability workers join teams with less able co-workers when there are no short … of teaching. High ability workers are more willing to join teams in the absence of revenue sharing and less willing to … join teams when they cannot communicate. When communication is possible, the choice of high ability workers to join teams …
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Money for something : the links between research funding and innovation
Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018
the next generation of scientists and inventors - teams funded by research grants - leads to innovative activity as …
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