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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick - 2021
environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485925
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The role of communication of performance schemes : evidence from a field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Sunde, Uwe - 2015
communicated might matter. In a controlled field experiment, we study a minimally invasive change in the communication of a well …-established incentive scheme - a reminder regarding the piece rate at the beginning of the shift. The experiment was conducted in a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285314
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Co-managing common pool resources : do formal rules have to be adapted to traditional ecological norms
Vollan, Björn; Prediger, Sebastian; Frölich, Markus - 2013
framed field experiment that is based on a rangeland model for semi-arid regions and carried out with communal farmers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764816
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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
hierarchies. In a large-scale natural field experiment (>1200 participants in 280 teams), we randomly encourage teams to select a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607636
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Gender and psychological pressure in competitive environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2021
environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233791
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Gender and Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments
Booth, Alison L.; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2021
environments. To explore this further, we conducted a laboratory experiment comprising 444 subjects, and measured gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240293
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Sorting, incentives and risk preferences : evidence from a field experiment
Bellemare, Charles (contributor);  … - 2006
The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of risk-tolerant individuals into firms using high-intensity incentive contracts. The empirical importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355557
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When pay increases are not enough : the economic value of wage Delegation in the field
Jeworrek, Sabrina; Mertins, Vanessa - 2014
By conducting a natural field experiment, we test whether a managerial policy of allowing employees to self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354002
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Measuring ratchet effects within a firm : evidence from a field experiment varying contractual commitment
Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2014
We present results from a field experiment designed to measure the importance of managerial commitment to a contract … as a function of the difficulty of the terrain to be planted. During the experiment, workers began planting a terrain at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010359307
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Timing of kindness : evidence from a field experiment
Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2014 - This version: 26 June 2014
We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375170