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Persistent Classmates: How Familiarity with Peers Protects from Disruptive School Transitions
Ly, Son Thierry; Riegert, Arnaud - HAL - 2013
Students' social networks are deeply disrupted during school transitions and students start in a classroom environment … experiment settings in which students are plausibly randomly allocated to classes within high schools. Two estimation strategies … low-ability students, the effect amounts to minus 1 percentage point per "persistent classmate", without increasing the …
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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
Rosaz, Julie; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2012
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results from an experiment in which participants receive a piece-rate wage to perform a real-effort task....
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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work
Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - HAL - 2013
This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market
Ferrant, Gaëlle; Bourquin, Yannick - HAL - 2011
This paper provides evidence that local social interactions within etnic groups may explain the puzzling variations in labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second, by conveying information about job opportunities...
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Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Spatial Externalities: Reassessing the Progresa Program
Bobba, Matteo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014
This paper considers whether and how the evaluation results of a large-scale social policy in rural Mexico are sensitive to the local concentration of program beneficiaries. Combining evaluation survey data with geo-referenced information on the areas covered by the intervention, we find...
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Feedback and incentives: Experimental evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2009
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay schemes and relative performance feedback policies on employee effort. We explore three feedback rules: No feedback on relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated feedback....
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Feedback and Incentives : Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791004
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Mathematical Model for Forecasting and Estimating of Market Demand
Nicolae, Dan; Pau, Valentin; Jaradat, Mihaela; … - HAL - 2010
The scientific study article (a monograph) presents a model for forecasting and estimating the evolution of the market demand.
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"No Strings Attached": Welcoming the Existential Gift in Business
Fremeaux, Sandrine; Michelson, Grant - HAL - 2011
Social relations are predominantly influenced by an exchange paradigm whereby the logic of reciprocity shapes behaviour. If the notion of exchange instrumentalism is common across different business disciplines, this does not deny attempts - such as through gift exchange theory - to present...
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The Brazilian organic food sector: Prospects and constraints of facilitating the inclusion of smallholders
Blanc, Julien; Kledal, Paul - HAL - 2012
The Brazilian organic food sector has experienced important growth during the last two decades. Brazilian smallholders, however, are facing huge challenges to enter and benefit from this growth in a sustainable way. Combining the lens of New Institutional Economics and socio-anthropology, we...
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