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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...

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Working or shirking?

Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact highlighted by phrases like "shirking from home". We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 13,000 employee NASDAQ listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who...

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Junk Food, Health and Productivity: Taste, Price, Risk and Rationality

Levy, Amnon - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2006

Junk-food consumption, health and productivity are analyzed within an expectedlifetime- utility-maximizing framework in … which the probability of living and productivity rise with health and health deteriorate with the consumption of junkfood … physiologically optimal and renders the levels of health and productivity lower than the maximal. Taxing junk-food can eliminate this …

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Heimarbeit: immer weniger Menschen in Deutschland gehen ihrem Beruf von zu Hause aus nach

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 8, pp. 131-139

In 2012, almost five million people, or roughly 10 percent of the labor force in Germany, worked from home most or some of the time. Of these home workers, 2.7 million were employees, i.e., eight percent of the labor force. It is primarily highly qualified employees such as managers, academics,...

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Environmental policy implications of working from home: Modelling the impacts of land-use, infrastructure and socio-demographics

Fu, Miao; Andrew Kelly, J.; Peter Clinch, J.; King, Fearghal - In: Energy Policy 47 (2012) C, pp. 416-423

Working from home is generally perceived as an effective means of reducing energy use and associated pollution from commuter transport. In order to consider the merits of mechanisms and policies to support a change in behaviour that results in greater take-up of home working, this paper applies...

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Sweet self-deception

Sommervoll, Dag - In: Journal of Economics 109 (2013) 1, pp. 73-88

People have a tendency to procrastinate when faced with aversive tasks—but they also procrastinate in relation to beneficial matters whose rewards are instantaneous. If agents value present anticipations of future consumption, revision of consumption plans may be viewed as a benign form of...

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A Dual-Step and Dual-Process Model of Advertising Effects: Implications for Reducing the Negative Impact of Advertising on Children's Consumption Behaviour

Büttner, Oliver; Florack, Arnd; Serfas, Benjamin - In: Journal of Consumer Policy 37 (2014) 2, pp. 161-182

Children are important targets of advertising campaigns from companies. However, children have been found to be particularly vulnerable to negative effects of advertising, and protecting children from these effects is an important task of consumer policy. Two important aspects have to be...

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Pure hyperbolic discount curves predict “eyes open” self-control

Ainslie, George - In: Theory and Decision 73 (2012) 1, pp. 3-34

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Temptation, Monetary Intelligence (Love of Money), and Environmental Context on Unethical Intentions and Cheating

Chen, Jingqiu; Tang, Thomas; Tang, Ningyu - In: Journal of Business Ethics 123 (2014) 2, pp. 197-219

In Study 1, we test a theoretical model involving temptation, monetary intelligence (MI), a mediator, and unethical intentions and investigate the direct and indirect paths simultaneously based on multiple-wave panel data collected in open classrooms from 492 American and 256 Chinese students....

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Falling or Not Falling into Temptation? Multiple Faces of Temptation, Monetary Intelligence, and Unethical Intentions Across Gender

Tang, Thomas; Sutarso, Toto - In: Journal of Business Ethics 116 (2013) 3, pp. 529-552

We develop a theoretical model, explore the relationship between temptation (both reflective and formative) and unethical intentions by treating monetary intelligence (MI) as a mediator, and examine the direct (temptation to unethical intentions) and indirect (temptation to MI to unethical...

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