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Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees … matched to informed managers learn that the manager could base their incentive choice on cooperation levels. We find no …
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The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate that those more affected by the drought more often...
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Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees … matched to informed managers learn that the manager could base their incentive choice on cooperation levels. We find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290212
Economists and management scholars have argued that the scope of incentives to increase cooperation in organizations is … prevailing cooperation levels among employees before they can set incentives to promote cooperation. In addition, employees … matched to informed managers learn that the manager could base their incentive choice on cooperation levels. We find no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259692
durables. Who opts into the transaction when given such incentives? We show theoretically and experimentally that increasing …
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ignorance, because it provides a convenient excuse for not getting informed. We conduct a laboratory experiment with resolvable …
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experiment, we introduce exogenous variation in the opportunity costs of time. Contrary to claims in the previous literature, we …
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In this paper, we hypothesize that the strength of the consensus effect, i.e., the tendency for people to overweight the prevalence of their own values and preferences when forming beliefs about others' values and preferences, depends on the salience of own preferences. We manipulate salience by...
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We use a laboratory experiment to understand the channels through which honesty oaths can affect behavior and …
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We show how sanctioning is more effective in increasing cooperation between groups than within groups. We study this … using a trust game among ethnically diverse subjects in Afghanistan. In the experiment, we manipulate i) sanctioning and ii … where ethnic identity is salient. Our results suggest that formal institutions for enforcing cooperation are more effective …
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