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Journal of Political Economy, 2009 We study a model where a decision maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same underlying preferences as the DM; they differ, however, in their prior beliefs about the state, which we interpret as differences of opinion. We derive a tradeoff faced by the
Che, Yeon-Koo, Kartik, Navin
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An Incentive Based Dynamic Ride-Sharing System for Smart Cities
Smart Cities, 2021 Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology, along with advanced traffic control systems, cannot ensure congestion-free traffic when the number of vehicles exceeds the road capacity.
Abu Saleh Md Bakibillah +4 more
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Cost of illness of atrial fibrillation: a nationwide study of societal impact
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background The prevalence of atrial fibrillation is increasing rapidly; however, to date, population-based data are lacking on the attributable cost of illness of atrial fibrillation from a societal perspective, including both direct and indirect costs ...
Søren Paaske Johnsen +4 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 Rain gardens are gardens with a specific purpose. Designed as a shallow depression that captures stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces, rain gardens are planted with deep-rooted, wet/dry-cycle tolerant plants that enable the water to slowly permeate
Linda B. Jahnke, Michael R. Barnes
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Egalitarianism and Incentives [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1996 A group of agents is collectively engaged in a joint productive activity. Each agent supplies an observable input, and output is then collectively shared among the members. A Bergson-Samuelson welfare function defined on individual utilities describes the social values of the agents. However, individual actions are taken on a selfish basis.
Kaoru Ueda, Debraj Ray, Debraj Ray
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background The increasing number of people with chronic diseases challenges workforce capacity. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) can have work-related consequences, such as early retirement.
M. A. Nexo +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background The number of people of working age suffering from chronic disease is increasing. Chronic diseases such as diabetes can cause negative work-related consequences in the form of early retirement or absenteeism.
Kristoffer Panduro Madsen +4 more
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Competition and incentives [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2017 We report on two experiments that identify non-monetary incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors increases, monetary incentives to engage in cost reduction tend to decrease. We test the hypothesis that there are non-monetary incentive effects of competition going in the opposite direction.
Lisa Fey +3 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 “Big data” gives markets access to previously unmeasured characteristics of individual agents. Policymakers must decide whether and how to regulate the use of this data. We study how new data affects incentives for agents to exert effort in settings such as the labor market, where an agent's quality is initially unknown but is forecast from an ...
Liang, Annie, Madsen, Erik
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Aligning Ambition and Incentives [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Labor turnover creates longer term career concerns incentives that motivate employees in addition to the short term monetary incentives provided by the current employer. We analyze how these incentives interact and derive implications for the design of incentive contracts and organizational choice.
Eloic Peyrache +2 more
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