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. Our discussion emphasizes the complex measurement issues associated with firm training and the interplay of applied theory …
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risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
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This study explores mechanism design with allocation-based social preferences. Agents’ social preferences and private payoffs are all subject to asymmetric information. We assume quasi-linear utility and independent types. We show how the asymmetry of information about agents’ social...
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How do patient and provider incentives affect mode and cost of long-term care? Our analysis of 1 million nursing home … profitable out-of-pocket payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than patients, so moving to …
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A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...
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rationality can affect effort provision, by shrouding attributes of the incentives. In our setting, complexity leads workers to …
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We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated …). Agents differ in their motivation to exert social effort. Our model predicts that lowering incentives for selfish effort in … prediction in a lab experiment allowing us to cleanly separate the selection effect from other effects of low incentives. Results …
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effects and small changes in the electoral incentives may generate large changes in turnout due to signaling effects. (iv …) Signaling incentives increase the sensitivity of turnout to voting incentives in communities with low opportunity cost of social …
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Belief elicitation is central to inference on economic decision making. The recently introduced Binarized Scoring Rule … (BSR) is heralded for its robustness to individuals holding risk averse preferences and for its superior performance when … examine whether information on the offered incentives improves reports about a known objective prior. We find that transparent …
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consequences for the provision of incentives in organizations and the design of sports competitions …
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