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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that supervisors vary widely in how they rate subordinates of similar quality. To...
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Math or Science? Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Examine the Process of Choosing a College Major
Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2011
Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...
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An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Models of Risky Decision Making
Baker, Joanna R. - 2010
In this paper, we assess the degree to which four of the most commonly used models of risky decision making can explain … explain the decision-making behavior of the majority of our subjects. Surprisingly, we find that the choice behavior of the … of risky decision making …
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An Economic Model of Amniocentesis Choice
Fajnzylber, Eduardo - 2010
Medical practitioners typically utilize the following protocol when advising pregnant women about testing for the possibility of genetic disorders: Pregnant women over the age of 35 should be tested for Down syndrome and other genetic disorders; for younger women, such tests are discouraged...
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Sticking with What (Barely) Worked
Lefgren, Lars - 2011
Outcome bias occurs when an evaluator considers ex-post outcomes when judging whether a choice was correct, ex-ante. We formalize this cognitive bias in a simple model of distorted Bayesian updating. We then examine strategy changes made by professional football coaches. We find they are more...
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Defined Benefit Pension Plan Distribution Decisions by Public Sector Employees
Clark, Robert L. - 2012
Studies examining pension distribution choices have found that the tendency of private-sector workers is to select lump sum distributions instead of life annuities. In the public sector, defined benefit pensions usually offer lump sum distributions equal to employee contributions, not the...
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Understanding Peer Effects in Financial Decisions : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2012
Using a high-stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a novel design to separately identify two channels of social influence in financial decisions, both widely studied theoretically. When someone purchases an asset, his peers may also want to purchase it, both...
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Diagnosing Expertise : Human Capital, Decision Making and Performance Among Physicians
Currie, Janet - 2013
: Procedural decision making and skill performing procedures. Higher procedural skill increases the use of intensive procedures … across the board, while better decision making results in fewer intensive procedures for the low risk, but more for the high … can be identified using administrative data and that improving decision making would reduce C-section rates by 15.5% in …
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Confucianism and Preferences : Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073199
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Conforming and Non-Conforming Peer Effects in Vaccination Decisions
Bodine-Baron, Elizabeth - 2013
Traditional economic models of vaccination assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decision of others. These …
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