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作者：Samek, Anya
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Southern California
摘要：The gender difference in competitiveness has been cited as an important factor driving the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Using a field experiment with more than 35,000 university students, I explore the impact of compensation scheme on willingness to apply for a job. I find that competitive compensation schemes that depend on relative performance disproportionately deter women from applying. I do not find the same deterrence effect under a compensation scheme in which students face unce...
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作者：Hoberg, Gerard; Moon, S. Katie
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：We use 10-K filings to construct novel text-based measures of the extent to which U.S. firms are exposed to three offshore activities: the sale of output, purchase of input, and ownership of producing assets. Our main result is that selling output abroad is associated with higher stock returns, especially when output is sold to more central nations in the real trade network. In contrast, offshore input serves as a hedge. Our findings are consistent with the conclusion that aggregate quantity s...
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作者：Huang, Ximin (Natalie); Atasu, Atalay; Toktay, L. Beril
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We analyze product design implications of extended producer responsibility (EPR)-based take-back legislation on durable goods. In particular, we observe that durable product design incentives under EPR may involve an inherent trade-off that has not been explored to date: Durable goods producers can respond to EPR by making their products more recyclable or more durable, where the former decreases the unit recycling cost and the latter reduces the volume the producer has to recycle. When these ...
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作者：Gee, Laura K.
作者单位：Tufts University
摘要：This paper presents the results from a 2.3-million-person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job-posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by 3.5%. Women have a larger increase in their likelihood of finishing an application than men. Overall, adding this information to a job posting may offer a light-touch way to both increase application rates ...
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作者：Dey, Debabrata; Kim, Antino; Lahiri, Atanu
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Controlling digital piracy has remained a top priority for manufacturers of information goods, as well as for many governments around the world. Among the many forms taken by digital piracy, we focus on an increasingly common one-namely, online piracy-that is facilitated by torrent sites and cyberlockers who bring together consumers of pirated content and its suppliers. Motivated by recent empirical literature that makes a clear distinction between antipiracy efforts that restrict supply of pi...
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作者：Kamali, Michael F.; Tezcan, Tolga; Yildiz, Ozlem
作者单位：University of Rochester; University of London; London Business School; University of Virginia
摘要：We study triage decisions in emergency departments (EDs) and provide a general procedure for determining when to apply provider triage (PT) based on operational and financial considerations using a steady-state, many-server fluid approximation. We then apply the proposed method in the setting of a teaching hospital's ED and obtain closed-form expressions for the range of arrival rates for which PT outperforms the traditional nurse triage economically. We show that the proposed solution methodo...
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作者：Wu, Chenguang (Allen); Bassamboo, Achal; Perry, Ohad
作者单位：Northwestern University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Northwestern University
摘要：Motivated by recent empirical evidence, we consider a large service system in which the patience time of each customer depends on his service requirement. Our goal is to study the impact of such dependence on key performance measures, such as expected waiting times and average queue length, as well as on optimal capacity decisions. Since the dependence structure renders exact analysis intractable, we employ a stationary fluid approximation that is based on the entire joint distribution of the ...
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作者：Cassar, Lea
作者单位：University of Cologne
摘要：Many jobs are connected to a prosocial mission-namely, to a social purpose beyond profit maximization. I use three laboratory experiments to investigate if employers can use the mission to economize on monetary incentives. In my first experiment, I exogenously vary whether the agents' effort generates a donation to a charity of their choice (matched mission), generates a donation to a charity chosen by another subject (random mission), or generates no donation (no mission). I find that the mis...
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作者：Gill, David; Kissova, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, Victoria
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Tongji University
摘要：Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion, symbolic awards, and educational achievement depend on the rank of individuals in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever organizations use rank-order relative-performance evaluation, people receive feedback about their rank. Using a real-effort experiment, we aim to discover whether people respond to the specific rank that they achieve. In particular, we leverage random variation in the allocation of rank am...
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作者：Bandi, Chaithanya; Trichakis, Nikolaos; Vayanos, Phebe
作者单位：Northwestern University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Southern California; University of Southern California; University of Southern California
摘要：In this paper, we study systems that allocate different types of scarce resources to heterogeneous allocatees based on predetermined priority rules-the U.S. deceased-donor kidney allocation system or the public housing program. We tackle the problem of estimating the wait time of an allocatee who possesses incomplete system information with regard, for example, to his relative priority, other allocatees' preferences, and resource availability. We model such systems as multiclass, multiserver q...
