The Selection of Talent: Experimental and Structural Evidence from Ethiopia

Autor: Stefano Caria, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Girum Abebe

Publikováno v: American Economic Review. 111:1757-1806

We study how search frictions in the labor market affect firms’ ability to recruit talented workers. In a field experiment in Ethiopia, we show that an employer can attract more talented applicants by offering a small monetary incentive for making

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https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20190586

Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City

Autor: Paolo Falco, Simon Quinn, Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Simon Franklin

Publikováno v: Falco, P 2021, ' Anonymity or Distance? Job Search and Labour Market Exclusion in a Growing African City ', The Review of Economic Studies, vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 1279–1310 . https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa057
Abebe, G, Caria, S S, Fafchamps, M, Falco, P, Franklin, S & Quinn, S 2020, ' ANONYMITY OR DISTANCE? JOB SEARCH AND LABOUR MARKET EXCLUSION IN A GROWING AFRICAN CITY ', Review of Economic Studies . https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa057

We show that helping young job seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an intervention that improves the ability to signal skills (the “job applic

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https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/320659750/WRAP_Anonymity_distance_job_search_African_Caria_2020.pdf

Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor: Stefano Fiorin, Johannes Haushofer, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Lukas Hensel, Margarita Gómez, Marc Witte, Andriy Ivchenko, Erez Yoeli, Friedrich M. Goetz, Christopher Roth, Elena Reutskaja, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd

Publikováno v: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens’ and governments’ responses at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most r

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https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3kfmh

Does the Risk of Poverty Reduce Happiness?

Autor: Antonio Stefano Caria, Paolo Falco

Publikováno v: Economic Development and Cultural Change. 67:1-28

We investigate the unexplored link between the risk of poverty and happiness in the context of a developing country. Using unique longitudinal data, we estimate workers’ vulnerability to income poverty and find a strong negative relationship betwee

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https://doi.org/10.1086/697556

Expectations, network centrality, and public good contributions: Experimental evidence from India

Autor: Marcel Fafchamps, A. Stefano Caria

Publikováno v: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Do individuals in a position of social influence contribute more to public goods than their less connected partners? Can we motivate these influential individuals by disclosing how others expect them to act? To answer these questions, we play a publi

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