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Physicians Treating Physicians: Relational and Informational Advantages in Treatment and Survival
Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Jennjou; Chuang, Hongwei; Lin, … - 2023
We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296792
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the … information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed optimal. To the contrary, when local knowledge is more important than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269064
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The role of salience in performance schemes: Evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
in quantity and quality of output. We use data from a controlled field experiment that changed the communication of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282221
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Feedback and incentives: experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through … off. Moreover, in both pay schemes information feedback reduces the quality of the low performers' work. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268675
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Information and competition entry
Ewers, Mara - 2012
This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory … experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282257
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How do informal agreements and renegotiation shape contractual reference points?
Fehr, Ernst; Hart, Oliver; Zehnder, Christian - 2011
Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)'s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore realistic aspects of trading relationships such as informal agreements and ex post...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282296
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Altruism, cooperation, and efficiency: Agricultural production in polygynous households
Akresh, Richard; Chen, Joyce J.; Moore, Charity - 2011
Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater -...
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An Economic Model of Child Custody
Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - 2003
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261582
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An Economic Model of Child Custody
Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703298
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How do voters respond to information? Evidence from a randomized campaign
Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013
Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and … subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to … updating by comparing the elicited priors and posteriors of voters, finding heterogeneous responses to information. Based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293129