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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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Advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics have notably expanded employers' monitoring and surveillance capabilities, facilitating the accurate observability of work effort. There is an ongoing debate among academics and policymakers about the productivity and broader welfare...
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The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple repeated gift exchange … transparent situation where efforts are revealed to the principals. However, there is no significant impact of transparency on … average effort as non-transparency leads to a stronger diversity in behavioral patterns such that at the same time the …
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suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling that team production often lacks … transparency about individual contributions despite negligible costs for providing such information. We offer a rationale for this … by demonstrating that transparency can actually hurt incentives. In the presence of career concerns information on the …
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We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
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The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
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We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career … three levels of transparency under which career concerns are predicted to affect behavior differently, and test the model …'s key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively …
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basic building block of individual accounts. This ensures the important design feature of transparency, the "enabler" of …
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incentives, transparency and state capacity as the key challenges to reducing the governance deficit in India. IGC supported …
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Because accountability may improve the comparability that is compromised by lenient grading, we compare exit exam outcomes in the same schools before and after a policy change that increased teacher accountability by anchoring grading scales. In particular, using a large administrative dataset...
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