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The distribution of talent across contests

Azmat, Ghazala; Möller, Marc - 2016

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most-able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? In this paper, we show, theoretically and empirically, that the distribution of abilities plays a crucial role in determining contest choice. Complete sorting exists only...

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Awards are career catalysts for young talents in highly competitive job markets

Bünning, Florian; Chan, Ben; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: January 01, 2021

Despite the potential importance of awards as a possible career catalyst, the theoretical and empirical research on awards is still in its infancy. Here, we address this notable shortcoming in the economic literature by exploring data from German youth football. Analyzing whether an early career...

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Can financial incentives help disadvantaged schools to attract and retain high-performing teachers? : evidence from Chile

Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Hincapié, Isabel; … - 2019

program in the region that provides monetary incentives to talented teachers with an additional bonus if they work in …

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Optimal Management of Evolving Hierarchies

Jens Leth, Hougaard; Juan D., Moreno-Ternero; Lars … - 2018

We study the optimal management of evolving hierarchies, which abound in real-life phenomena. An initiator invests into ﬁnding a subordinate, who will bring revenues to the joint venture and who will invest herself into ﬁnding another subordinate, and so on. The higher the individual...

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Executive compensation : facts

Clementi, Gian Luca; Cooley, Thomas F. - 2010 - This version: October 6, 2009

strongly to innovations in shareholder wealth; measured as dollar changes in compensation, incentives have strengthened over …

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Gender gaps in performance : evidence from young lawyers

Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - 2015

This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using transparent measures that are widely used and comparable across firms: the number of hours billed to...

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Social incentives matter : evidence from an online real effort experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2013

firms that engage in Corporate Social Responsibility activities. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives … - that take the form of a donation received by a charity of the subject's choice - to financial incentives using an online … real effort experiment. We find that social incentives lead to a 20% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump …

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Peer effects in the decision to apply for a professional excellence award

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ramos, Alejandra - 2020

We study the role social interactions at the workplace play in the decision to apply for a professional recognition program. In Chile, teachers can apply to a pedagogical excellence award. Successful applicants receive a wage increase and are publicly recognized. We exploit the quasi-random...

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Does rewarding pedagogical excellence keep teachers in the classroom? : evidence from a voluntary award program

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ramos, Alejandra - 2018

We analyze the effects on teacher retention and between school mobility of a program that rewards excellence in pedagogical practice in Chile. Teachers apply voluntarily for the award and those who succeed on a set of assessments receive a 6 percent annual wage increase for up to 10 years. We...

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

&D cooperation. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for EU, Japan and Russia to adopt this … strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition which cooperates both on climate change control … and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries' profitability and free-riding incentives. Finally, after …

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