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The Entry of Randomized Assignment into the Social Sciences
Jamison, Julian C. - In: Journal of Causal Inference 7 (2019) 1
Abstract Although the concept of randomized assignment in order to control for extraneous confounding factors reaches back hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout the 19 th century there was a growing awareness of the...
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Do gender differences in career aspirations contribute to sticky floors?
Deschacht, Nick; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Baert, Stijn - In: International Journal of Manpower 38 (2017) 4, pp. 580-593
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test hypotheses regarding the importance of employee preferences in explaining sticky floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. Design/methodology/approach The authors use original data obtained...
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The effect of plain packaging format in cigarette labeling on smoking intent and brand likability among young non-smokers in Macau
Chow, Clement S. F.; Kaynak, Erdener; Mak, Winnie - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics 27 (2015) 1, pp. 23-39
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out whether the plain packaging format in cigarette labeling is worth adopting or not. Design/methodology/approach – A lab experiment with a 2 (existing vs plain packaging format) × 2 (familiar vs unfamiliar brand) factorial design was...
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Cooperating or competing in three languages: cultural accommodation or alienation?
Gargalianou, Vasiliki; Urbig, Diemo; van … - In: Cross Cultural & Strategic Management 24 (2017) 1, pp. 167-191
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of using foreign languages on cooperative behavior in a prisoner’s dilemma setting. The cultural accommodation hypothesis suggests that people are less cooperative in English, associated with the Anglophone cultural cluster, than in...
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Incentives and Coordination in Hierarchies
Mookherjee, Dilip; Reichelstein, Stefan - In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 1 (2001) 1
decision making creates problems of aligning incentives of vertically related agents, and coordinating the actions of different …
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Incentives for Boundedly Rational Agents
Basov, Suren - In: Topics in Theoretical Economics 3 (2003) 1
and experimentation. The results predict the underprovision of optimal incentives and deviation from a standard sufficient … statistics result from the agency literature. It also allows us to address the question of creating the optimal incentives in a …
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Insurance and Incentives for Medical Innovation
Garber, Alan M; Jones, Charles I.; Romer, Paul - In: Forum for Health Economics & Policy 9 (2006) 2
This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … inadequate incentives to innovate. Standard results in the health literature suggest that health insurance leads to the … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …
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Unternehmensleitung und Innovationserfolg / Corporate Management and Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 6, pp. 641-658
Summary This article compares the innovative activity of managerial and owner-led firms. The incentives to innovate for … growth in case of success is a positive incentive. In light of this conflicting incentives, we investigate empirically …
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Was reizt Sozial hi Ifeempfänger zum Ausstieg?. Eine empirische Untersuchung mit dem Niedrigeinkommens-Panel / Why do Recipients of German Social Assistance Opt Out?. An Empirical...
Wilde, Joachim - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 223 (2003) 6, pp. 719-742
valid or not. Additionally, further kinds of incentives are taken into account. It is shown that the current structure of … the financial incentives influences the decision of the recipients much less than it is assumed. In contrast to this, the …. Therefore, a reform of the German system of social assistance should not only focus on financial incentives.  …
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Bestimmungsgründe für den medizinischen Fortschritt / Causes for Medical Advances
Arnold, Robert - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 5-6, pp. 681-698
Summary In this article it is analysed which factors determine the medical and technological advances in the field of pharmaceuticals, medical products and medical procedures. We do not have a general theory on the determinants of technological advances. That’s why all arguments, which are in...
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