workers. We offer a simple model of favoritism to explain these risks and show firms’ trade-off in using informal channels. We …

the manager is “corruptible”, both low and high ability workers invest in connections and that nepotism is more widespread …

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be …

We investigate the relationship between tournament prices and effort choices in the presence of favoritism. High …

This paper investigates the effects of managerial incentives on favoritism in promotion decisions. First, we … theoretically show that favoritism leads to a lower quality of promotion decisions and in turn lower efforts. But the effect can be …

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual … countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults who were exposed to favoritism at various points during their life …. We find that generic male respondents exposed to regional favoritism during their adolescence have higher educational …

findings as evidence of nepotism in public employment in Italy …

extract rents for his family worth between one fourth and one full private sector job per year. The effect of nepotism is long …

extract rents for his family worth between one fourth and one full private sector job per year. The effect of nepotism is long …

extract rents for his family worth between one fourth and one full private sector job per year. The effect of nepotism is long …