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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles

Kocher, Martin G. - 2009

We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders …

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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example

Gaechter, Simon - 2009

We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by those who are reciprocally oriented. Part of the effect can be explained by a false consensus...

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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023

, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a …

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

Many observers have noticed the importance of anger in contemporary politics, particularly with reference to populism. This article addresses the question under which conditions people become angry about a specific aspect of their lives: their personal financial situation. Specifically, it asks...

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Employment Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples in the United States : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Button, Patrick - 2019

We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the …

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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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Trial and Error? Reelection Concerns and Policy Experimentation During the U.S. Welfare Reform

Bernecker, Andreas - 2015

investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a … to experiment with welfare policies than governors with low reputation. Yet, governors with high reputation who are less … concerned about reelection actually experiment more than governors striving for reelection. Overall, our findings imply that …

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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to …

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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives : Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets

Rebitzer, James B. - 2010

Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor markets. For the most part, the study of agency in employment relationships relies on highly...

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Employee Identification and Wages : On the Economics of "Affective Commitment"

Kampkötter, Patrick - 2020

We study the role of employees' identification to the employer for wage growth. We first show in a formal model that identification implies countervailing effects: Employees with higher identification are more valuable as they exert higher efforts, but have weaker bargaining positions, and less...

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