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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 … the production period, and continuously updated feedback. The pay schemes are a piece rate payment scheme and a winner …
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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 …
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attainment and time in household production by both women and men. Both the market and nonmarket sectors will be covered as well …
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economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of … prayer (11 levels); information on the mother's and father's church attendance when the respondent was a child (9 levels) as …
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non- experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure … productivity in the first decade and overall production increase reached 82 percent after 30 years. Such results are much larger …
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economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of … prayer (11 levels); information on the mother's and father's church attendance when the respondent was a child (9 levels) as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233775
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 …
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sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …
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We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools in Finland. Graduating … students in treatment schools were surveyed and given information on the labor market prospects associated with detailed post …
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