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We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, we have identified the journal articles published by these scholars and the number of times each...
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reputation for skill acquisition and labor market outcomes in an otherwise competitive market. We find that reputation effects …) that arises when schools can enhance their reputation by positively selecting their students. This leads to excess demand …
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We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by oneメs peers and others. The … central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that … overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality of an individualメs most important exposure have an extra effect on …
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absence of legal enforcement and reputation formation opportunities the credit market breaks down almost completely while if … reputation formation is possible a stable credit market emerges even in the absence of legal enforcement of debt repayment …
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experienced a faster growth rate over the course of her career as a result of reputation and visibility. Moreover, authors know …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in … reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation … employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against …
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Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
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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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We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to examine the effectiveness of accountability systems that rely on patient reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play a series of modified Trust Games. In the game,...
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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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