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The big carrot: high stake incentives revisited
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2008
latter. Specifically, it is shown that beliefs in heaven are much more relevant than beliefs in hell when estimating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268759
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014
impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481582
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531672
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
, imagination and independence in children) to five different measures of religiosity, including beliefs and attendance. We control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105072
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The Sequencing of Gift Exchange: A Field Trial
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2017
There is now an extensive literature on "gift exchange" showing that when principals and agents can trade "gifts" (rewards that should not emerge in a competitive equilibrium), exchange becomes more efficient. However, it is not obvious how gift exchange should be organized if the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653464
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274068
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Improving the Peer Review Process: A Proposed Market System
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479412
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
Grout, Paul; Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822618
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The New Economics of Religion
Iyer, Sriya - 2015
The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes - it is … examines the insights and research themes that are offered by economists to investigate religion globally in the modern world …. Several factors have influenced the economics of religion: (1) new developments in theoretical models including spatial models …
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