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In corporate practice, incentive schemes are often complicated even for simple tasks. Hence, the way they are 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...
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kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events …
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heterogeneity in advertising costs. Firms whose advertising is more salient and therefore raise attention more easily charge lower …
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A setting in which customer-owned mutual companies converted to publicly listed firms created a plausibly exogenous shock to salience of stock ownership. We use this shock to identify the effect of stock ownership on political behavior. Using IV regressions, difference-in-differences analyses,...
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We link two important ideas: attention is scarce and lack of information about an individual drives discrimination in … selection decisions. Our model of allocation of costly attention implies that applicants from negatively stereotyped groups face … attention discrimination: less attention in highly selective cherry-picking markets, where more attention helps applicants, and …
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, however, is not uniform but depends on context. When the environment allows subjects to not focus attention on (negative …
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, however, is not uniform but depends on context. When the environment allows subjects to not focus attention on (negative …
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argue that guessing draws attention to the norm and therefore increases its effectiveness. Our results suggest that the …
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In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents … attention to them if they expect to receive a bequest from them, which constitutes strong support for the selfish bequest motive …
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constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …. Importantly, the latter effect is significantly larger when there is less attention on politics. Thereby, we draw on exogenous …
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