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Optimal Job Design and Information Elicitation

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When managers rely on their subordinates for local information but cannot commit to how such information is used, the incentives for effort and information elicitation become intertwined. This incentive problem influences the firm's job design decision, that is, whether to assign all tasks in a job to one worker (“individual assignment”) or ...
Arijit Mukherjee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Disclosure on Diversity: Evidence From the Canada Business Corporations Act

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of a 2020 “comply‐or‐explain” disclosure mandate implemented in Canada. This regulation imposed the first disclosure mandate extending beyond gender diversity to include racial diversity. Using federally registered public firms as a treatment group and provincially registered public firms as a control group, we establish ...
Thomas Bourveau   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A 10× continuously zoomable metalens system with super-wide field of view and near-diffraction-limited resolution. [PDF]

open access: yesNanophotonics
Zhou W   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Learned Family on the Educator‐Kibbutzim—Knowledge, Kinship, and Social Transformation as Historical Legacy

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
wiley   +1 more source

A call for open science in forensics. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Albright TD, Scurich N.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Present Status of Canon Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 1959
Martin, Thomas Owen
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Sinking peatlands: Optimal control of subsidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of about 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in these areas requires lowering groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry, which leaves future generations worse off by accelerating subsidence and increasing future costs.
Suphi Sen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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