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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? The Bangladesh case

Meng, Xin; Ryan, Jim - 2007

The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey data collected in 2000, after 7 years of operation of the program. Using propensity score matching...

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Physicians´ Multitasking and Incentives:Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within amultitasking environment. In 1999 the …

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies using either quarterly or annual data from differentcountries with varying institutional frameworks, it is not yet clear whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the...

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Team Governance:Empowerment or Hierarchical Control

Friebel, Guido; Schnedler, Wendelin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate a team setting in which workers have different degrees of commitment to theoutcome of their work. We show that if there are complementarities in production and if theteam manager has some information about team members, interventions that the managerundertakes in order to assure...

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Coordination Games Played by Children and Teenagers: On the Influence of Age, Group Size and Incentives

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, … - 2024

aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger incentives increase the likelihood of choosing the efficient strategy …

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In-Group Favoritism and Peer Effects in Wrongful Acquittals: NBA Referees as Judges

Mocan, Naci; Osborne-Christenson, Eric - 2022

We provide the first analysis of racial in-group bias in Type-I and Type-II errors. Using player-referee matched data from NBA games we show that there is no overall racial bias or in-group bias in foul calls made by referees. Similarly, there is no racial bias or in-group bias in Type-I errors...

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Gender, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Teaching

Barigozzi, Francesca; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

This paper investigates the role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in choosing a teaching career using data from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia. We find that the opportunity costs of becoming a teacher vary by gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males...

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Mystery Shopping as a Strategic Management Practice in Multi-Site Firms

Block, Sidney T.; Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; … - 2022

Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...

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Revenue Drift, Incentives, and Effort Allocation in Social Enterprises

Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022

enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee … varying incentive levels, monetary rewards succeed in directing worker effort to commercial tasks; high-powered incentives … attract less prosocial employees, but low-powered incentives do not alter workforce composition. Social enterprises combining …

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Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On

MacLeod, W. Bentley; Malcomson, James - 2023

"Implicit Contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment" (MacLeod and Malcomson, 1989) remains our most highly cited work. We briefly review the development of this paper and of our subsequent related work, and conclude with reflections on the future of relational contract...

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