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Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2018

Trust affects almost all human relationships - in families, organizations, markets and politics. However, identifying the conditions under which trust, defined as people's beliefs in the trustworthiness of others, has a causal effect on the efficiency of human interactions has proven to be...

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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions - in contrast to what is expected - increase the inflow into...

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Health information and well-being: Evidence from an asymptomatic disease

Dahlberg, Matz; Mani, Kevin; Öhman, Mattias; … - 2016

data from a screening program for an asymptomatic disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The information provided to the …

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Allocating effort and talent in professional labor markets

Barlevy, Gadi; Neal, Derek A. - 2016

both heavy work loads and up-or-out rules are screening mechanisms. …

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The complementary nature of trust and contract enforcement

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2021

Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears important for realizing gains from trade. In contrast, under strong contract enforcement beliefs about other's trustworthiness appear less important, suggesting that trust and...

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Honesty in the digital age

Cohn, Alain; Gesche, Tobias; Maréchal, Michel André - 2020

Modern communication technologies enable effcient exchange of information but often sacrifice direct human interaction inherent in more traditional forms of communication. This raises the question of whether the lack of personal interaction induces individuals to exploit informational...

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The complementarity between trust and contract enforcement

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2021

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Optimal short-time work: Screening for jobs at risk

Teichgräber, Julian; Žužek, Simon; Hensel, Jannik - 2022

policies act as a screening mechanism to mitigate the adverse selection problem. This perspective of short-time work as a …

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Economic Evaluation of Interventions for Screening of Dementia

Saha, Sanjib; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Toresson, Håkan; … - 2018

OBJECTIVE: The objective is to systematically review the literature on economic evaluations of screening interventions … identified and broadly fell into two groups: screening without biomarkers and screening using biomarkers. There was a … of biomarkers used. The sensitivity and specificity of screening instruments are one of the important aspects in …

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The company you keep: Health behavior among work peers

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Zocher, Katrin; Schober, Thomas - 2017

work, and analyze whether an individual's decision to participate in health screening is related to the observed behavior … in general health checks, mammography screening, and prostate-specific antigen tests increases with the share of work … individual screening participation. …

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