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Exclusion and Reintegration in a Social Dilemma
Solda, Alice; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2017
Using a negatively framed public good game, we study the cooperative behavior of individuals who reintegrate their group after being excluded by their peers. We manipulate the length of exclusion and whether this length is imposed exogenously or results from a vote. We show that people are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816499
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Religion and Innovation
Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
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Impact of Prison Experience on Anti-gay Sentiments: Longitudinal Analysis of Inmates and Their Families
Ananyev, Maxim; Poyker, Mikhail - 2024
Inmates' informal code often ascribes low status to persons perceived as passive homosexuals. We use longitudinal data to investigate whether prison experience contributes to anti-gay beliefs. We find that prison experience prompts a higher level of anti-gay sentiments among males and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061944
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … the second midterm grade is 0.03s (s = the grade's standard deviation) for the recipients of recognition, and 0.15s for … (itself unaffected), and decreases with the distance to the cutoff grade for recognition, reaching a significant 0.44s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333269
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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - 2014
unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task …. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398335
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The Power of (No) Recognition: Experimental Evidence from the University Classroom
Hoogveld, Nicky; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … the second midterm grade is 0.03s (s = the grade's standard deviation) for the recipients of recognition, and 0.15s for … (itself unaffected), and decreases with the distance to the cutoff grade for recognition, reaching a significant 0.44s for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884116
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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment
Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task …. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that … recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884268