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Aftershocks : The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services
Jacobson, Mireille - 2010
Between 1973 and 2003, abortion providers in the United States were the targets of over 300 acts of extreme violence. Using unique data on attacks and on abortions, abortion providers, and births, we examine how anti-abortion violence has affected providers' decisions to perform abortions and...
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Growing Up in a Recession : Beliefs and the Macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola - 2009
Does the historical macroeconomic environment affect preferences for redistribution? We find that individuals who experienced a recession when young believe that success in life depends more on luck than effort, support more government redistribution, and tend to vote for left-wing parties. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463329
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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief
Akerlof, George A. - 2017
This paper develops a theory of promotion based on evaluations by the already promoted. The already promoted show some favoritism toward candidates for promotion with similar beliefs, just as beetles are more prone to eat the eggs of other species. With such egg-eating bias, false beliefs may...
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Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
Tella, Rafael Di - 2011
We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the US over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about economic opportunities and...
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Exporting Christianity : Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2011
In this paper we build a model of market competition among religious denominations, using a framework that involves incomplete contracts and the production of club goods. We treat denominations akin to multinational enterprises, which decide which countries to enter based on local market...
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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 - 2012
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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Leadership and Organizations
Alston, Eric C.; Alston, Lee J.; Mueller, Bernardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies with leaders at the top. Why do we have leaders instead of an algorithm making decisions? The theory of the firm recognizes benefits to centralizing authority but these...
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The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity : A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
Gosnell, Greer K. - 2019
Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence … regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an … management practices: (i) performance monitoring; (ii) performance feedback; (iii) target setting; and (iv) pro-social incentives …
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Well-being and Trust in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2008
example, an increase of trust in management that is about one tenth of the scale is equivalent to more than 30% increase in …
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