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Boards hire and fire CEOs based on imperfect information. Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, we analyze the role of a potentially important unobserved attribute - CEO health - in corporate governance. We find CEOs are significantly healthier than the population and other highskill...
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ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up … ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, profits and profits per share … the performance of teams. In line with theoretical predictions, our data suggest that this positive effect could be …
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and relative measures in performance reports for employees. Although studies have documented that the provision of these … types of measures can benefit performance, theory from economic and accounting literature suggests that it may be optimal … that relative performance information alone yields the best performance effects in our setting—that is, that a subset of …
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performance. Our study is based on evidence from a natural experiment of NBA (National Basketball Association) players: Based on … to their 4th quarter performance as well as compared to their game and season averages. Yet the average performances in … situations leads to lower subsequent individual performance. Psychological explanations for this phenomenon, e.g. the role of …
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performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education …Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship … performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture …
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