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- June 2013
- Article
Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments
By: Robert Slonim, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino and Danielle Merrett
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We test the hypotheses by first collecting survey and experimental data... View Details
Slonim, Robert, Carmen Wang, Ellen Garbarino, and Danielle Merrett. "Opting-in: Participation Bias in Economic Experiments." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (June 2013): 43–70.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants
By: Pian Shu
Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets immediately prior to their application and exhibit lower labor force attachment than accepted... View Details
Keywords: Disability Insurance; Asset Accumulation; Labor Force Participation; Assets; Behavior; Employment; Insurance; Insurance Industry; United States
Shu, Pian. "Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-008, July 2013.
- Article
Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants
By: Pian Shu
This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance applicants, previously examined only in the theoretical literature. Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that... View Details
Keywords: Disability Insurance; Asset Accumulation; Labor Force Participation; Assets; Behavior; Employment; Insurance; Insurance Industry; United States
Shu, Pian. "Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants." Journal of Public Economics 129 (September 2015): 26–40.
- 2016
- Working Paper
PathBreakers? Women's Electoral Success and Future Political Participation
By: Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer
We investigate whether the event of a woman being competitively elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are... View Details
Keywords: Political Participation; Women; Candidates; Gender Bias; Backlash; Minority Representation; Regression Discontinuity; India; Prejudice and Bias; Political Elections; Gender; Public Administration Industry; India
Bhalotra, Sonia, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer. "PathBreakers? Women's Electoral Success and Future Political Participation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-035, November 2013. (Revised January 2016.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Participation Guys
the Class of 1983's 30th Reunion Campaign, John Davenport and John Sternfield took a simple approach to reach 100 percent section participation for an unprecedented third reunion in a row. "We were the View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Participation Guys
Leading the Section C effort for the Class of 1983’s 30th Reunion campaign, John Davenport and John Sternfield took a simple approach to reach 100 percent section participation for an unprecedented third reunion in a row. “We were the... View Details
- Aug 28 2012
- Testimonial
Participant Spotlight: GMP
- Aug 28 2012
- Testimonial
Participant Spotlight: PLD
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Connection, Engagement, Participation
Learn more about how you can get involved at alumni.hbs.edu View Details
- Article
Participation Constraints in the Vickrey Auction
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Economic agents are characterized by two privately observable parameters: their willingness to pay for an item being auctioned, and their reservation utility level which must be exceeded, in expectation, to induce them to participate in this auction. This creates a... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Participation Constraints in the Vickrey Auction." Economics Letters 16, nos. 1-2 (1984): 31–36.
- Article
Dilemmas of Managing Participation
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Management
Kanter, R. M. "Dilemmas of Managing Participation." Organizational Dynamics 11, no. 1 (Summer 1982): 3–21.
- February 2021
- Article
Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools
By: Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments... View Details
Keywords: Lab Selection; External Validity; Experiments; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
Snowberg, Erik, and Leeat Yariv. "Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools." American Economic Review 111, no. 2 (February 2021): 687–719.
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Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Richard E. Walton
This article presents the findings regarding the nature of the difficulties surrounding the supervisory role in participative work systems, a conceptualization of the supervisor/work group interface, and some action implications for the management of organizations.... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Innovation and Invention
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Richard E. Walton. "Do Supervisors Thrive in Participative Work Systems?" Organizational Dynamics 7, no. 3 (Winter 1979): 24–38.
- 31 Jan 2020
- Video
Students Participate in January Short Intensive Programs
Unanticipated Gains
Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others?
Unanticipated Gains argues... View Details- August 2019 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
Participant Media: Social Impact in Hollywood
By: Mark R. Kramer and Brooke D. Biederman
Kramer, Mark R., and Brooke D. Biederman. "Participant Media: Social Impact in Hollywood." Harvard Business School Case 720-364, August 2019. (Revised July 2020.)
- 14 Jan 2020
- Video
Meet Enrique | CORe Participant Testimonial
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
requires embracing their interdependent elements. As Swartz declared in his address, commerce and justice are closely linked, and businesses must commit themselves to the communities around them. The conference included some seventeen panels, with a number of HBS... View Details
- February 2018
- Case
Health Savings Accounts: Enabling Consumer Participation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
Health savings accounts (HSAs), a creation of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, had become an integral part of the drive toward consumer-driven health care. Coupled with high-deductible health plans, HSAs allowed consumers to directly control a significant part of... View Details