of similar regions. This allows to measure both the rank (relative performance) and the absolute performance based on the …) distance measure and geographic distance in logs work best in our applications. Our estimated performance measures remain quite …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …

and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG … reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the conflict of interest between the controlling and the minority owners … limited success to improve indices of firm performance in our sample. We argue that this arises from the predatory behavior of …

to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the mission of the organization. Well … than mismatched workers and that performance pay can increase output by 35% compared to workers who only receive a base …

: meaning at work; and in particular, meaning at work induced by job mission. We provide empirical evidence of the importance of … show show that preferences for meaning at work, particularly meaning induced by job mission, explain gender differences in … segregation and of the consequences of corporate mission and purpose. …

to organizations, creating either mission matches or mismatches. We overlay performance incentives to test whether they …Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well … than mismatched workers and that performance pay can increase output by 35% compared to workers who only receive a base …

margin weaker members, in terms of performance, of that subgroup. …

Schools are a key channel in formal reporting of violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset … of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study how widespread such reporting declines are, and to what extent they were recovered … sharp declines in reporting of all types of violence (psychological, physical, and sexual), and that full recovery in …

. We find that the impact of the reform was immediate; foreign women's IPV reporting and application for protection orders …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …