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Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...
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reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in … reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation … employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against …
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Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
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young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
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In the context of a global security framework that mitigates interstate conflicts, nation-states establish a reputation … corroborates the role of reputation-building through co-ethnicity narratives as a determinant of sponsor state engagement. We argue …
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investigate how reputation concerns among governors influence the decision to experiment with welfare policies. In line with a … political agency model, our empirical results suggest that governors with high reputation among the electorate are less likely … to experiment with welfare policies than governors with low reputation. Yet, governors with high reputation who are less …
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This paper experimentally investigates the nature of image concerns in gift giving. For this, we test variants of dictator and impunity games where the influences of social preferences on behavior are kept constant across all games. Givers maximize material payoffs by pretending to be fair when...
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We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to examine the effectiveness of accountability systems that rely on patient reporting in Kenyan health clinics. We recruit patients and health care providers from public and private health clinics to play a series of modified Trust Games. In the game,...
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Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias - people with extreme opinions are more motivated to share them than people with moderate...
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