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Gender Peer Effects in University: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Ewijk, Reyn - 2010
conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are … manipulated and students are randomly assigned to these groups. Boys tend to postpone their dropout decision when surrounded by … effects on achievement. This in spite of the fact that students' perceptions of the behavior of themselves and their peers are …
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Toimihenkilöiden työ- ja palkkaurat Suomen teollisuudessa
Jokinen, Juha-Pekka - 2009
In this study we focus on differences in careers and wage development between white-collar workers. We are interested in the questions of which factors contribute to these differences and at what stage of the career they occur. Furthermore, we investigate the wage effects of the different types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272986
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Social Relations and Relational Incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - 2012
This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326344
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Who owns the land? Social relations and conflict over resources in Africa
Berry, Sara S. - 2018
Using case studies drawn from the authors' own and others' research, this working paper describes and compares some of the ways land conflicts reflected, intensified or reshaped struggles over authority within and between families, local communities, institutions and states in post-colonial...
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Das Phänomen der residentiellen Multilokalität: Lifescapes, soziale Figurationen und raumstrukturelle Konsequenzen
Weichhart, Peter - In: Multilokale Lebensführungen und räumliche …, (pp. 42-49). 2020
Ausgangspunkt dieses Beitrags ist die Abgrenzung des Phänomens der residentiellen Multilokalität von anderen Formen der Mehrörtigkeit. Diese soziale Praxis, welche die Verfügbarkeit von zwei oder mehr Behausungen voraussetzt, bedingt eine spezifische Lebensweise. Als Bezeichnung des...
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In guter Gesellschaft? Sozialstruktur und soziale Beziehungen in Kleinstädten
Schiemann, Sara; Steinführer, Annett - In: Kompendium Kleinstadtforschung, (pp. 209-234). 2021
Der Beitrag widmet sich den Sozialstrukturen und sozialen Beziehungen in Kleinstädten: Es werden die zentralen Begrifflichkeiten geklärt, ein Überblick über den bisherigen Forschungsstand gegeben sowie offene Fragen für die Kleinstadtforschung benannt. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, dass...
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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition
de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023
Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...
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Measuring "group cohesion" to reveal the power of social relationships in team production
Gächter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio - 2022
We introduce "group cohesion" to study the economic relevance of social relationships in team production. We operationalize measurement of group cohesion, adapting the "oneness scale" from psychology. A series of experiments, including a pre-registered replication, reveals strong positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480559
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Social relations and relational incentives
Dur, Robert; Tichem, Jan - 2012
This paper studies how social relationships between managers and employees affect relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other. The contract may contain two types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282065
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Policies from Evidence that Risk Starvation Causes Dementias and Depressions and May Contribute to a Range of Other Brain Morbidities
Pope, Robin - 2009
In rich countries, the population percentage under drug therapy for depressions is rising rapidly decade by decade for children, adolescent and young adults with no evidence of any long term success for this chronic ailment. There is also in rich countries relative to most poor ones, for each...
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