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, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …
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Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this 'crowding out' phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...
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While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing theory supporting this practice. We provide relevant analytic foundations, describing sufficient...
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While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing theory supporting this practice. We provide relevant analytic foundations, describing sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762416
Anecdotal, empirical, and experimental evidence suggests that offering extrinsic rewards for certain activities can reduce people's willingness to engage in those activities voluntarily. We propose a simple rationale for this 'crowding out' phenomenon, using standard economic arguments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010773919
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both their inherent ability and on the quality of the job match. It outlines a sequential process, in which underpaid...
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We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …
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operations as pooling, matching, regression, hierarchical and multilevel modeling, calculating summary measures, finding the …
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We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …
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of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the source of uncertainty by sacrificing towards it. In our … uncertainty is lower. The findings imply that under circumstances of high uncertainty people are willing to sacrifice large …
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