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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...
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History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
We study the evolution of the social norm of "cooperation" in a dynamic environment. Each agent lives for two periods and interacts with agents from the previous and next generations via a coordination game. Social norms emerge as patterns of behavior that are stable in part due to agents'...
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Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital
Cesur, Resul - 2018
While the relationship between adverse health shocks and health care utilization has been studied extensively, next to nothing is known about the effect of health shocks on religiosity, which may serve as an alternative to secular psychological services and interventions. Filling this gap in...
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The Economics of Faith : Using an Apocalyptic Prophecy to Elicit Religious Beliefs in the Field
Augenblick, Ned; Cunha, Jesse M.; Dal Bo, Ernesto; Rao, … - 2021
We model religious faith as a "demand for beliefs," following the logic of the Pascalian wager. We then demonstrate how an experimental intervention can exploit standard elicitation techniques to measure religious belief by varying prizes associated with making choices contrary to one's belief...
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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
What are the consequences of electing a female leader for policy and political outcomes? We answer this question in the context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a...
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the … right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in … highest variance industries, where decision making has the greatest payoff. The theory is tested using data on Stanford …
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2010
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced into wages? Combining two years of daily, line-level production data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line...
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Macours, Karen - 2016
Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...
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