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Love the job... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care
Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip; De Walque, Damien - 2018
. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission …-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task motivation, mission motivation has no additional effect on effort. The … three tasks, from boring to interesting. In addition, for half of the students, mission motivation is present: their effort …
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Who is the most sought-after economist? : ranking economists using Google trends
Coupé, Tom - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549209
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Locus of control and its intergenerational implications for early childhood skill formation
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Warrinnier, Nele - 2016
This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457572
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Competing social identities and intergroup discrimination : evidence from a framed field experiment with high school students in Vietnam
Tam Kiet Vuong; Chan, Ho Fai; Torgler, Benno - 2021
identities to understand how group identification and socialization affect ingroup favoritism and out-group discrimination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419371
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The tragedy of the commons and socialization : theory and policy
Bezin, Emeline; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2016
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The strength of gender norms and gender-stereotypical occupational aspirations among adolescents
Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022817
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892461
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286688
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Institutional quality and fiscal transparency
Andreula, Nicoló; Chong, Alberto; Guillén, Jorge - 2009
This paper uses new data on fiscal transparency for a cross-section of countries; these data possess several advantages. First, the data are based on in-depth reports using a standardized methodology and protocol. Second, this study covers 82 countries, more than previous comparable studies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247144
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The political economy of fiscal reform in Brazil : the rationale for the suboptimal equilibrum
Melo, Marcus André Barreto Campelo de; Pereira, Carlos; … - 2010
This project examines fiscal reforms in Brazil since the 1990s, particularly in taxation, budgeting, and fiscal federalism. While recentralizing fiscal authority and massively expanding the extractive capacity of the state, policymakers chose not to revamp an inefficient tax system that has...
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