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Bhalotra, Sonia - 2018

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...

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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2012

leader' model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge …

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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their...

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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?

Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - 2022

Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...

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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills

Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023

In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the … difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …

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Peers Affect Personality Development

Shan, Xiaoyue; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 university students who we randomly assign to study groups. Our results show that students become more similar to their peers along several dimensions. Students with more competitive...

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Overconfidence is a Social Signaling Bias

Burks, Stephen V. - 2010

relatively. We test three different theories about observed relative overconfidence. The first theory notes that simple … on 1,016 individuals' relative ability judgments about two cognitive tests rejects the Bayesian model. The second theory … might make this belief worse. Our data also reject this prediction. The third theory is that overconfidence is induced by …

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A Caseworker Like Me : Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2021

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...

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Social Interactions and the Salience of Social Identity

McLeish, Kendra N.; Oxoby, Robert J. - 2021

In this paper, we explore the effect of identity salience on behavior in a simple social interaction. Specifically, we compare behavior in a ultimatum game across three treatments: priming subjects with a shared identity, priming subjects with an identity distinct from those with whom they will...

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Gender and Self-Selection into a Competitive Environment : Are Women More Overconfident than Men?

Nekby, Lena; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - 2021

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders

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