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Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings?: Evidence from Roth 401(k) Introductions
Saving Taxation Retirement
2015/4/28
Can governments increase private savings by taxing savings up front instead of in retirement? Roth 401(k) contributions are not tax-deductible in the contribution year, but withdrawals in retirement a...
Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy:Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs
Management Style Performance Outcome or Result Management Teams Manufacturing Industry India
2015/4/28
The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differs...
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution?Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
Equality and Inequality Surveys Taxation
2015/4/28
This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using randomized online surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk). About 5,000 respondents w...
How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Risk Management Production Weather and Climate Change Insurance Emerging Markets
2015/4/28
Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfal...
Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards:Evidence from Listed Companies in China
Corporate Governance Independent Directors China Asia
2015/4/28
In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent dir...
Accountability of Independent Directors—Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation
Debt Securities Lawsuits and Litigation Legal Liability
2015/4/28
We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial and disclosure related fraud. Investors can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and...
Saving More to Borrow Less:Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile
Saving Poverty Borrowing and Debt Chile
2015/4/28
Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that reducing barriers to saving through access to free savings accounts decreases participa...
Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Wages Networks Motivation and Incentives Identity Performance Manufacturing Industry China
2015/4/28
We study the impact of social identity on worker competition by exploiting the exogenous variations in workers' origins and the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural m...
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration,Innovation,and Entrepreneurship:Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Innovation Diaspora Diasporas Entrepreneurship Innovation and Invention Immigration
2015/4/28
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contri...
Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand:Evidence from Urban China
Economic Transition Structural Change Labor Mobility Transition Human Capital Private Sector
2015/4/27
This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in...
Understanding the Advice of Commissions-Motivated Agents:Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market
Customers Insurance Product Service Operations Agency Theory Sales Motivation and Incentives
2015/4/27
We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial service intermediaries in providing product recommendations to potentially uninformed consumers. One v...
Field Evidence on Individual Behavior & Performance in Rank-Order Tournaments
Competition Behavior Rank and Position Performance Cognition and Thinking
2015/4/27
Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads to declining performance. Empirical research demonstrates that individuals in tournament-type contests perform ...
Diasporas and Outsourcing:Evidence from oDesk and India
Diaspora Ethnicity Outsourcing ODesk South Asia Networks Job Cuts and Outsourcing
2015/4/27
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the...
The Value of Advice:Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension
Management Practices and Processes Performance Productivity Agribusiness Mobile Technology
2015/4/27
Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they m...
Do U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay?Evidence from UK Companies
Globalized Markets and Industries Corporate Governance Executive Compensation
2015/4/24
This paper examines the extent that interactions with U.S. markets impact the compensation practices of non-U.S. firms. Using a sample of large U.K. companies, we find that the total compensation of U...