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Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Effort Provision
The American Economic ReviewUsing field and laboratory experiments, we demonstrate that the complexity of incentive schemes and worker bounded rationality can affect effort provision. This is because some attributes of the incentives become opaque; that is, workers do not take them
Johannes Abeler +2 more
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Free Riding and Unequal Pay in Symmetric Teams
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsThis paper studies dynamic incentive pay in teams where agents' efforts are perfect substitutes. It shows that the principal may unequally reward identical agents to mitigate dynamic free riding in the form of procrastination.
H. Yildirim
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Strategic Thinking Skills: A Key to Collective Economic Success
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsWe conduct a large-scale experiment to measure elementary aspects of strategic thinking skills and their linkage to labor market outcomes. Two incentivized measures of higher-order rationality and backward induction are developed.
Syngjoo Choi +2 more
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Firm Responses and Wage Effects of Foreign Demand Shocks with Fixed Labor Costs and Monopsony
The American Economic ReviewWe quantify the firm responses and real wage effects of foreign demand shocks. We use Belgian microdata to construct firm-specific measures of demand shocks, which capture that firms pass on foreign demand shocks to domestic suppliers.
E. Dhyne +4 more
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Declining Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil
Journal of Economic LiteratureDespite rising inequality in rich countries, many developing economies have experienced a decline in inequality in recent decades. Brazil is a notable example. From 1995 to 2015, its Gini index decreased from 58 to 48 points.
Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella
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Age at Marriage and Women' s Labor Market Outcomes in India
Social Science Research NetworkWe examine the relationship between womens age at marriage and their labor market outcomes using nationally representative household data from India.
G. Dhamija, Punarjit Roychowdhury
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Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
The American Economic ReviewThis paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities ...
S. Franklin +3 more
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This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark’s Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform’s immediate effects but also its longer-term consequences and its repeal a decade later.
C. Dustmann +2 more
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This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark’s Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform’s immediate effects but also its longer-term consequences and its repeal a decade later.
C. Dustmann +2 more
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Do Medical Treatments Work for Work? Evidence from Breast Cancer Patients
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe investigate the effects of radiation therapy on the mortality and economic outcomes of breast cancer patients. We implement a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-difference framework exploiting variation in treatment stemming from a medical guideline
N. Daysal +3 more
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Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper tests whether partially unemployed workers value future preserved benefits when they bunch at the kink of the unemployment insurance benefit-withdrawal schedule.
Thomas Le Barbanchon
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