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Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2009

People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their perception of their own ability will choose tasks that are not sufficiently challenging. Overestimation...

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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets

Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 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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Are income and consumption taxes ever really equivalent? evidence from a real-effort experiment with real goods

Blumkin, Tomer; Ruffle, Bradley J.; Ganun, Yosef - 2010

The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and laborincome (wage) taxes. We introduce an experimental paradigm in which individuals make real labor-leisure choices and spend their earned income on real goods. We use this paradigm to test whether a labor-income...

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Integrating personality psychology into economics

Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.

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Certainty and severity of sanctions in classical and behavioral models of deterrence: A survey

Entorf, Horst - 2012

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...

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Evaluating students' evaluations of professors

Braga, Michela; Paccagnella, Marco; Pellizzari, Michele - 2011

This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students' evaluations for the same teachers using … in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers in each of their compulsory courses. We find … material, teachers still matter substantially. The average difference in subsequent performance between students who were …

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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Memorandum: Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung

Hauser, Richard; Wagner, Gert G.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authors develop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly...

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Migration and globalization: challenges and perspectives for the research infrastructure

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...

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Optimal Data Collection for Randomized Control Trials

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Wilhelm, Daniel - 2016

In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator can be improved either by collecting data on additional individuals, or by collecting additional covariates that predict the outcome variable. We propose the use of pre-experimental data such as a census, or a...

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