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Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: the peer effect of Jose Canseco

Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - 2008

This paper examines the issue of whether workers learn productive skills from their co-workers, even if those skills are unethical. Specifically, we estimate whether Jose Canseco, one of the best baseball players in the last few decades, affected the performance of his teammates. In his...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers

Gibbs, Michael - 2005

government?s primary plan and two intended to introduce greater flexibility in personnel management. …

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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction

Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005

Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...

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Why is child labor illegal?

Dessy, Sylvain; Knowles, John - 2007

We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if altruistic parents are unable to commit to educating their children, child-labor laws can increase the...

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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...

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Peer effects in pro-social behavior: Social norms or social preferences?

Gächter, Simon; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - 2012

We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who then make effort choices sequentially. In our baseline treatment we observe that the second...

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Laws and norms

Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012

This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...

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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and contraction in a firm. We derive a Cox proportional hazard model from a simple model of job separation based on the expected surpluses from the firm and its workers. We account for...

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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?

Margolis, David N. - 2006

different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms …

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