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I Own, So I Help Out: How Psychological Ownership Increases Prosocial Behavior
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-07-20)This article explores the consequences of psychological ownership going beyond the specific relationship with the possession to guide behavior in unrelated situations. Across seven studies, we find that psychological ... -
The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love
(Elsevier BV, 2012)In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary conditions for the IKEA effect—the increase in valuation of self-made products. ... -
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
(2016-08-22)We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quanti.es immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide ... -
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence From the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
(Elsevier BV, 2020-04)We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned ... -
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers
(2013-05-31)We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during ... -
Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods
(2016-03-09)Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply ... -
The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance
(2014-01-13)The quality of operational processes is an important driver of performance in hospitals. In particular, processes that reliably deliver both evidence-based and patient-centered care, which we call conformance and experiential ... -
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts' Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-07-18)We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost, due to the ... -
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
(INFORMS, 2014)We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies ... -
The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy
(Elsevier BV, 2020-01)There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades. This paper presents three main findings about the impact of mass shootings on gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single ... -
The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
(2013-05-22)We conduct an empirical investigation on the impact of pooling tasks and resources on throughput times in a discretionary work setting. We use an Emergency Department’s (ED) patient-level data (N = 234,334) from 2007 to ... -
The Impact Of Price Regulation On The Availability Of New Drugs In Germany
(Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2019-07)The 2011 German Pharmaceutical Market Restructuring Act (“AMNOG”) subjected branded, non-rare disease drugs to price regulation based on an assessment of their clinical benefit. Assessment outcomes range from “major added ... -
The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe
(Springer Nature, 2018-04-25)Biologics represent a substantial and growing share of the U.S. drug market. Traditional “small molecule” generics quickly erode the price and share of the branded product upon entry; however, only a few biosimilars have ... -
Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings
(2015-04-14)This first of three papers in our series on materiality in credit ratings will examine the materiality of credit ratings from an “implied materiality” and governance disclosure perspective. In the second paper, we will ... -
In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity
(2017-09-08)Creativity researchers have long paid careful attention to individual creativity, beginning with studies of well-known geniuses, and expanding to personality, biographical, cognitive, and social-psychological studies of ... -
In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults’ Experience of a Dual Identity Organization
(2013-05-31)Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs ... -
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
(2013-02-19)A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why ... -
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
(2015-05-06)We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model salesforce ... -
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-07-18)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to ... -
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
(2012-08-08)This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to ...