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This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
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We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on … addition, we find some evidence that institutions matter as women in the US who are more likely to receive welfare benefits …
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altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the … crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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a novel large scale field experiment at university, where students are randomized into work groups based on their score … on a creativity test prior to university entry. We first show that the creative abilities of peers matter for a student …'s academic achievement. A one standard deviation higher creativity peer group improves study performance by 8.4 to 10 percentage …
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via video conferences as compared to face-to-face. Thus, we provide evidence that barriers to creativity in virtual teams …
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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...
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their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open …'s creativity measured in childhood and their individual attributes and life outcomes. We find that childhood creativity predicts … experience is important. We combine insights from our findings with evidence from psychology to propose creativity …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company …. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the … crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884106
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