games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in …

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …

records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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 …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this …

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy … market prospects compared to other unemployed individuals. However, the examination of start-up subsidies from a business …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this …