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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders’ characteristics. We show that a strong predictor...

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …

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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence

Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...

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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments

Reuben, Ernesto; Rey-Biel, Pedro; Sapienza, Paola; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as leaders than is suggested by their individual past performance....

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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

leader’ model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …

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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …

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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination

Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017

We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...

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Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015

The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...

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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

leadership, morale and surprise, have continued to be important determinants of battle outcome despite technological progress in …

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