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Label, nudge or tax? A review of health policies for risky behaviours
Journal of Public Health Research, 2012 This work proposes a critical, non systematic, review of the three main lines of health policy interventions to deal with risky behaviours, such as over-eating, smoking, sedentary lives, and excess alcohol drinking, namely: i) the release of information ...
Matteo M. Galizzi
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The Pyschoactive Politics Framework and the Beginning of Coca Eradication in Peru
Colombia Internacional, 2022 Objective/Context: The present article develops a theoretical tool to explain drug policy decisions called the Psychoactive Politics Framework. It is built on the assumption that the design and implementation of drug policies affect several political ...
Nicolas Alexander Beckmann
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Background Nigeria suffers from the highest burden of mother-to-child transmission worldwide. To increase retention in care and prevention programmes, we piloted and evaluated a conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme for preventing mother-to-child ...
Jenny X. Liu +5 more
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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 experimental test of the deterrence hypothesis [PDF]
, 2008 Crime has to be punished, but does punishment reduce crime? We conduct a neutrally framed laboratory experiment to test the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability of punishment.
Hörisch, Hannah, Strassmair, Christina
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Performance Pay and Top Management Incentives
, 1990 Our estimates of the pay-performance relation (including pay, options, stockholdings, and dismissal) for chief executive officers indicate that CEO wealth changes $3.25 for every $1,000 change in shareholder wealth.
Kevin J. Murphy, M. C. Jensen
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The effect on the BTD of IFRS adoption and the end of the Transitional Tax Regime (RTT) in Brazil
Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, 2021 This paper aimed to evaluate the moderation by variables related to incentives for earnings management (indebtedness, profitability, and size) over the effect of the change in standards (accounting or tax) on the book-tax differences (BTD).
Claudio Marcio Pereira da Cunha +1 more
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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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The Provision of Incentives in Firms
, 1999 This paper provides an overview of the existing theoretical and empirical work on the provision of incentives. It reviews the costs and benefits of many types of pay-for-performance, such as piece rates, promotions, and long-term incentives.
Canice Prendergast
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The effectiveness of a performance management system at a South African public hospital in Cape Town
Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2021 Background: In 1994, South Africa instituted the Public Service Act of 1994 which is presumably applicable and must be adhered to by all public institutions.
Baxolele Tyokwe, Visvanathan Naicker
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