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Team incentives are important in many compensation systems that pay workers according to the output of their team as well as to their own output, with team bonuses often depending on whether the team meets or exceeds specified thresholds. Yet little is known about how team members with different...
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We examine innovative contexts like scientific research or technical R&D where agents must search across many potential projects of varying and uncertain returns. Is it better to possess incomplete but accurate data on the value of some projects, or might there be cases where it is better to...
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A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. Analyzing data on roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we find that such gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable...
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This paper develops a partial-identification methodology for analyzing self-selection into alternative compensation schemes in a laboratory environment. We formulate a model of self-selection in which individuals select the compensation scheme with the largest expected valuation, which depends...
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as players try to avoid endogenous risk of being excluded from the winning coalitions in the future. We find strong … as a result of more egalitarian sharing than predicted by theory, and therefore, lower risk of being excluded from the …
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reduces the variety of independent information sources. We report the results of two experiments, each studying two treatments … experiments reach the same result: in both, delegation rates are unexpectedly high and higher than abstention rates, and LD … simple majority voting. However, even when experts are correctly identified, delegation must be used sparely because it …
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pattern of risk attitudes described by Kahneman and Tversky. In addition, we document a systematic effect of stake sizes on … the magnitude and sign of the relative risk premium, holding fixed both the probability that a lottery pays off and the … in which all departures from risk-neutral bidding are attributed to an optimal adaptation of bidding behavior to the …
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Employment matches under uncertainty are typically accompanied by opportunities for information acquisition. Workers … can acquire specific information about productivity lotteries at the firm or general information affecting their … probabilistic beliefs about work elsewhere. Enterprises can acquire specific information concerning the productivity of a particular …
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role of persistence, information, size and insurability of changes in economic resources. We next examine the empirical … and identify the income process or the information set of the individuals. Second, one can assume that the income process … or the amount of information that consumers have are known and tests the implications of the theory. In general there is …
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obtained in a complete information setting, where coordination is easy, to those obtained in a setting with strategic risk … deterrent effect under complete information, this does not hold anymore under strategic risk. Rather, we find that increases in … weapon stocks can have a non-monotonic effect on the sustainability of peace. We also show that under strategic risk …
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