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Relational Goods, Monitoring and Non-Pecuniary Compensations in the Nonprofit Sector : The Case of the Italian Social Services
Mosca, Michele; Musella, Marco; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
main predictions of the model in Italy's case. It adds to the available empirical literature by introducing in the analysis …
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Measuring Performance : Ranking State Success Over Two Decades in India
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Chaudhuri, Arka; Saattvic - 2022
This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery … of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on …. Although we find volatility in performance over time, there exists a positive correlation between measures of state capacity …
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Driven to Succeed? Teenagers' Drive, Ambition and Performance on High-Stakes Examinations
Jerrim, John - 2020
There has been much interest across the social sciences in the link between young people's socioemotional (non-cognitive) skills and their educational achievement. But much of this research has focused upon the role of the Big Five personality traits. This paper contributes new evidence by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827338
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Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
Flabbi, Luca - 2014
wages at the top of the distribution, and a negative one at the bottom. Moreover, performance in firms with female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044409
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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being : Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
Herbst, Chris M. - 2010
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139507
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For Benevolence and for Self-Interest : Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity Across Nations
Estrin, Saul - 2011
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2016
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987970
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Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?
Estrin, Saul - 2014
Based upon unique survey data collected using respondent driven sampling methods, we investigate whether there is a gender pay gap among social entrepreneurs in the UK. We find that women as social entrepreneurs earn 29% less than their male colleagues, above the average UK gender pay gap of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042997
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector : Evidence from Ethiopia
Serra, Danila - 2015
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039127
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H. - 2015
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
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