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Can Taste and Nudging Impact Healthy Meal Consumption? Evidence from a Lunch Restaurant Field Experiment
Thunström, Linda; Nordström, Jonas - 2012
Previous research shows that taste is one of the most important factors in determining food choices, and that food choices may be affected by "nudging". We analyze how taste, as determined by meal attributes, and nudging affects consumption of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on a...
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How do nascent social entrepreneurs respond to rewards? A field experiment on motivations in a grant competition
Ganguli, Ina; Huysentruyt, Marieke; Le Coq, Chloé - 2018
We conducted a field experiment to identify the causal effects of extrinsic incentive cues on the sorting and performance of nascent social entrepreneurs. The experiment, carried out with one of the United Kingdom's largest support agencies for social entrepreneurs, encouraged 431 nascent social...
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Times are a changin'? The emergence of new firms and rank persistence
Schneck, Stefan - 2018
Young firms are known to grow at a faster rate than incumbents. With administrative firm data from Germany, we show that the higher growth rates indeed translate into upward mobility within the firm size distribution. Young firms are therefore not only able to catch up, but also to grow larger...
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The gendering of entrepreneurship context
Welter, Friederike; Brush, Candida; De Bruin, Anne - 2014
context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high growth firms
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018
This paper addresses three simple questions: how should the contribution of HGFs to job creation be measured? how much does this contribution vary across countries? to what extent does the cross-country variation depend on variation in the proportion of HGFs in the business population? The first...
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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - 2005
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014
credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335903
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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies
Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023
Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy aimed at maximizing...
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Leveraging social comparisons: The role of peer assignment policies
Senn, Julien; Schmitz, Jan; Zehnder, Christian - 2023
Using a large-scale real effort experiment, we explore whether and how different peer assignment mechanisms affect worker performance and stress. Letting individuals choose whom to compare to increases productivity to the same extent as a targeted exogenous matching policy designed to maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014333783
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
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