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Gift Exchange in the Workplace : Money or Attention?
Dur, Robert - 2021
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....
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Decision-Making by Children
Lundberg, Shelly J.; Romich, Jennifer L.; Tsang, Kwok Ping - 2021
In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316882
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Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...
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Individual Responsibility and the Funding ofCollective Goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Villeval, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising theamount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiencyof these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the firststage of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861864
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption inLocal Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economicdevelopment. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862786
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The Elite Brain Drain
Hunter, Rosalind - 2009
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the …
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Extreme Weather and Long-Term Health : Evidence from Two Millennia of Chinese Elites
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2019
, encountering three years of droughts in childhood reduces an elite's life span by about two years. A remarkably important channel …
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Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard
Arcidiacono, Peter - 2019
The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an unprecedented look at how an elite school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861317
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Catching Up is Hard to Do : Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly … relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and earnings among those with elite post-baccalaureate degrees. Few … graduates of nonselective institutions earn post-baccalaureate degrees from elite institutions, and even when they do …
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Welfare Effect and Elite Capture in Agricultural Cooperatives Intervention : Evidence from Ethiopian Villages
Gelo, Dambala - 2019
.10% and 19.93%). Moreover, our analysis suggests heterogeneous treatment effects related to elite capture within Farmer …
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