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Motivating Effort In Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations : Field Experimental Evidence
Blasco, Andrea - 2016
We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...
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The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market
Deming, David J. - 2015
model of team production where workers "trade tasks" to exploit their comparative advantage. In the model, social skills …
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Wage Inequality and Cognitive Skills : Re-Opening the Debate
Broecke, Stijn - 2016
Inequality in the United States is high by international standards, and keeps rising. This is likely to bring significant social as well as economic costs, including lower growth. In this paper, we use the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to revisit the debate on the relative importance of skills...
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Does Gifted Education Work? For Which Students?
Card, David - 2014
Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K-12 students. As in the debate over selective college admissions, a key issue is targeting. Should gifted and talented programs be allocated on the basis of cognitive ability, or a broader...
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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth
Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …
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Creativity Under Fire : The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
Gross, Daniel P. - 2018
Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …
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Copyright and Creativity. Evidence from Italian Opera During the Napoleonic Age
Giorcelli, Michela - 2020
's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we …
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Understanding Creativity
Galenson, David W. - 2010
range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …
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As Science Evolves, How Can Science Policy?
Jones, Benjamin - 2010
Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...
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Innovators : Filmmakers
Galenson, David W. - 2010
followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …
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