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Choice-Based Elicitation and Decomposition of Decision Weights for Gains and Losses Under Uncertainty

Abdellaoui, Mohammed; Vossman, Frank; Weber, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper reports the results of an experimental parameter-free elicitation and decomposition of decision weights under uncertainty. Assuming cumulative prospect theory, utility functions were elicited for gains and losses at an individual level using the trade-off method. Then decision weights...

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Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure

Falk, Armin; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

While confounding factors typically jeopardise the possibility of using observational data to measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility of obtaining clean evidence. In this Paper we measure the output of four randomly selected groups of individuals who were asked to fill...

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Incentive and Insurance Effects of Tax Financed Unemployment Insurance

Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The potential distortions of job-search incentives caused by unemployment benefits and their financing are well known … (incentives) and equity (insurance). This implies that an increase in both benefits and the tax rate up to some point may increase …

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Do Single-Sex Classes Affect Achievement? An Experiment in a Coeducational University

Booth, Alison L; Cardona Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and continued enrollment of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in studies on single-sex...

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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust differences between the competitive...

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Specific Knowledge and Performance Measurement

Raith, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper examines optimal incentives and performance measurement in a setting where an agent has specific knowledge … choice of performance measures and incentives depends on the agent’s knowledge, environmental risk, technological uncertainty …

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No margin, no mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Jack, Kelsey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in …. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. …

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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on performance pay and other high-powered incentives, thereby shifting effort … incentives downward in order to extract rents. More generally, as declining market frictions lead employers to compete more …, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

scheme of incentives in a major government agency. The incentive scheme was based on teams and covered quantity and quality …

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Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper explores the hypothesis that gender wage differentials arise from the interaction between the intra-household allocation of labour and the contractual relation between firms and workers in the presence of private information on workers’ labour market attachment. In our model, if...

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