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Nudging the Nudger : A Field Experiment on the Effect of Performance Feedback to Service Agents on Increasing Organ Donor Registrations

House, Julian; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mažar, Nina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

government service agency to study whether providing CSRs with performance feedback with or without peer comparison affected … individual performance feedback three times over one year resulted in a 25% increase in daily signups, compared to otherwise … similar encouragement and reminders. Adding benchmark information that compared CSRs performance to average and top peer …

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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000

departures from Pareto optimality in SOE economies can be large and trade liberalization acts to discipline shirking associated …

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Wages and the Allocation of Hours and Effort

Bils, Mark - 1999

We examine the impact of wage stickiness when employment has an effort as well as hours dimension. Despite wages being predetermined, the labor market clears through the effort margin. We compare this model quantitatively to models with flexible and sticky wages, but no effort margin. Allowing...

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Can Competitiveness predict Education and Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Incentivized Choice and Survey Measures

Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...

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Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors' Monitoring

Ding, Wenzhi; Chen, Lin; Schmid, Thomas; Weisbach, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What makes independent directors perform their monitoring duty? One possible reason is that they are worried about being sanctioned by regulators if they do not monitor sufficiently well. Using unique features of the Chinese financial market, we estimate the extent to which independent...

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Factors Affecting the Output and Quit Propensities of Production Workers

Klein, Roger - 1987

education. 2. The performance of non-whites in our sample was no lower than that of whites. However, on their previous jobs non …

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Crowding In with Impure Altruism : Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks

Kotchen, Matthew - 2019

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we identify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the...

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Motivated Errors

Exley, Christine L. - 2019

In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort : Evidence from Public Schooling

Jacob, Brian A. - 2010

This paper studies the effect of employment protection on worker productivity and firm output in the context of a public school system. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to...

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