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On the Economic Origins of Concerns Over Women’s Chastity

By: Anke Becker
This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial... View Details
Keywords: Infibulation; Female Sexuality; Paternity Uncertainty; Concern About Women's Chastity; Pastoralism; Economic Anthropology; History; Gender; Social Issues; Culture
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  • July 2010
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Is a Higher Calling Enough? Incentives Effects in the Church

By: Christopher Parsons, J. Hartzell and D. Yermack
We study the compensation and productivity of more than 2,000 Methodist ministers in a 43‐year panel data set. The church appears to use pay‐for‐performance incentives for its clergy, as their compensation follows a sharing rule by which pastors receive approximately... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Organizations; Religion; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 08 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

societies where men were away from home for extended periods to work and found it difficult to monitor the behavior of women, for example in societies that relied more on pastoralism rather than agriculture. In pre-industrial times, View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Influences on Megachurch Pastors is an early-stage paper that looks at how leaders maintain the values of their institutions even as their industries rapidly change around them. Using the example of pastors... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • 21 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Going Negative in Political Advertising

negative advertisements we've seen from the Clinton campaign: "Fear appeal" ads, such as the 3am phone call, designed to worry voters about Obama's lack of experience. Guilt-by-association ads that include footage of Pastor... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and Lubos View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • June 2005
  • Article

Judging Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

By: Randolph B. Cohen, Joshua Coval and Lubos Pastor
Keywords: Management; Capital
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  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

Apartment Rental Market Peter A. Coles, Joshua Gans, and Wei-Yuan YuHarvard Business School Case 912-009 Jon Pastor and Lawrence Zhou were inspired by the same problem: the Internet was surprisingly unhelpful in the hunt for an apartment.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

responsibility of management is something that can be addressed, rather than swept under the carpet. And the third thing that religious professionals can learn is a kind of pragmatic problem solving. Our sense was, you really need both of these voices; it's not that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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