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Hussam, Reshmaan N.; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In settings where an individual's labor choices are constrained, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field experiment with...

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Employee Screening : Theory and Evidence

Huang, Fali - 2006

theoretical results using a national sample of U.S. establishments, which includes information on employee selection. We find that …

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther - 2005

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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The Changing (Dis-)Utility of Work

Kaplan, Greg - 2018

We study how changes in the distribution of occupations have affected the aggregate non-pecuniary costs and benefits of working. The physical toll of work is smaller now than in 1950, with workers shifting away from occupations in which people report experiencing tiredness and pain. The...

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When Corporate Social Responsibility Backfires : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

List, John A. - 2017

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a cornerstone of modern business practice, developing from a "why" in the 1960s to a "must" today. Early empirical evidence on both the demand and supply sides has largely confirmed CSR's efficacy. This paper combines theory with a large-scale...

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The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality

Breza, Emily - 2016

The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labor market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian manufacturing workers, we randomize whether co-workers within production units receive the same flat daily wage or different wages (according to...

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael - 2016

We use the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) 2003-12 to estimate time spent by workers in non-work while on the job. Non-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While average time spent by workers in non-work conditional on any positive amount rises with...

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Information Production and Capital Allocation : Decentralized vs. Hierarchical Firms

Stein, Jeremy C. - 2000

This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … likely to be attractive when information about individual projects is soft' and cannot be credibly transmitted. Moreover …, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …

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Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending

Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2000

The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...

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Information Frictions and News Media in Global Value Chains

Bui, Ha; Huo, Zhen; Levchenko, Andrei A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value …' information sets with new quarterly data containing the frequencies of country-industry-specific economic news reports by 11 … information frictions are amplified by the global production network. These information frictions appear as correlated labor …

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