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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2004
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262163
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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias with limited precision and transparency. A simple adjustment … equilibrium effects. Adjusted estimates of the positive net fiscal impact of average recent U.S. immigrants rise by a factor of 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426441
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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited … capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283968
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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing sub … mechanisms of local accountability are subject to be captured by local elites or are weak, monitoring tools might have limited … capacity to improve outcomes. In such settings, major transparency related reforms might be needed to improve public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575485
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Individual responsibility and the funding of collective goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Villeval, … - 2007
When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268361
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Equality of Opportunity for Well-Being
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Ramos, Xavier - 2017
A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to acquire income. At the same time, policy makers have doubled down on efforts to go beyond income when measuring well-being. We attempt to bridge these two areas by measuring the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744652
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Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?
Ramos, Xavier; Van de gaer, Dirk - 2017
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787007
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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes
Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013
This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319464
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Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity: Principles, measures, and evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283980
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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
Ramos, Xavi; Van de gaer, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555240