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Image Versus Information : Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
Ali, S. Nageeb - 2016
reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …
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Screening, Competition, and Job Design : Economic Origins of Good Jobs
Bartling, Björn - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms : New Evidence
Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - 2021
an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …
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Children's Media Use and Homework Time
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2015
Homework is an important part of the academic production function, but often students are studying while doing another activity. Using the nationally representative Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement time diaries, this chapter explores changes over the period 1997–2008...
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Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide
Ono, Hiroshi; Zavodny, Madeline - 2021
This study examines the extent and causes of inequalities in information technology (IT) ownership and use between natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The results indicate that, during the period 1997-2003, immigrants were significantly less likely to...
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Time to Work or Time to Play : The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2010
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities. Time-diary data are more detailed and accurate than...
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Pane E Cioccolata : The Impact of Native Attitudes on Return Migration
de Coulon, Augustin - 2015
This paper addresses the link between native attitudes and return migration. We exploit the variation in xenophobia using information on media consumption by migrants in Italy. A widely documented crime provides a quasi-experimental setting to identify the impact of Italian attitudes on...
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Terrorism and the Media : The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks
Jetter, Michael - 2017
day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality …
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Television, Health, and Happiness : A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2022
Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is …
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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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