performance and the willingness to work in teams. In three different team environments, we find that such policies in form of … gender quotas do not harm performance and cooperation within teams, and do not weaken people's willingness to work in teams …

We use investment-level data to study performance persistence in venture capital (VC). Consistent with prior studies … preferential access raises the quality of subsequent investments, perpetuating performance differences in initial investments …

a flexible pension scheme, the pension increases with short term performance as measured by the vote share of the …

between prosocial motivation and public sector employment is due to selection at the career start or socialization during the … prosocial motivation, others focus on need for security (risk aversion). However, the study of prosocial motivation in the … context of public sector employment has largely focused on altruism and neglected other forms of prosocial motivation, in …

them to either a prosocial or a commercial job. Our data suggest that the mission of a job itself has a performance …

. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission …-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task motivation, mission motivation has no additional effect on effort. The … three tasks, from boring to interesting. In addition, for half of the students, mission motivation is present: their effort …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …