We study how a gift exchange labor market reacts to the occurrence of negative shocks. One-round shocks may hit either workers’ wages or employers’ earnings (via worker productivity). In our model, other-regarding preferences suffice predict and above competitive level. Wage rigidity is predicted if we add wage illusion loss aversion. Using real-effort laboratory experiment, find support for mo...

Gift giving is thought to be welfare decreasing. This claim rests on two key assumptions, namely, full information as to the whereabouts of all goods and the ability to reach the stores that contain desired goods costlessly. In this paper, we replace these two assumptions with the more realistic assumptions of uncertainty about the location of goods and search costs. In sharp contrast to existi...

BACKGROUND Over the past two decades, the promotion of collaborative partnerships involving researchers from low and middle income countries with those from high income countries has been a major development in global health research. Ideally, these partnerships would lead to more equitable collaboration including the sharing of research responsibilities and rewards. While collaborative partner...

The purpose of authorship search is to identify documents written by a particular author in large document collections. Standard search engines match documents to queries based on topic, and are not applicable to authorship search. In this paper we propose an approach to authorship search based on information theory. We propose relative entropy of style markers for ranking, inspired by the lang...

Nine therapy clients were interviewed regarding their experiences of giving gifts to therapists. Data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research. In describing a specific event when they gave a gift that was accepted, participants described having a good relationship with the therapist and usually identified their therapy concerns as relationship or family struggles or both. Most bough...

What determines people’s moral judgments of selfish behaviors? Here we study whether people’s normative views in trust and gift exchange games, which underlie many situations of economic and social significance, are themselves functions of positive emotions. We used experimental survey methods to investigate people’s moral judgments empirically, and explored whether we could influence subsequen...

âuthorship which is important to the grant support, academic promotion and reputation of the scientists and their institution should be determined by how genuinely they contribute to each article. the ïnternational çommittee of medical journal ëditors (ïçmjë) has recommended that authorship credit should be based on substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or ana...

Research with the largest impact on practice and science is often conducted by teams with diverse substantive, clinical, and methodological expertise. Team and interdisciplinary research has created authorship groups with varied expertise and expectations. Co-authorship among team members presents many opportunities and challenges. Intentional planning, clear expectations, sensitivity to differ...

that may influence search behavior for a Christmas gift. A survey was recognition of all gift-giving occasions featuring more than conducted soon after the Christmas season to explore the effects of the one giver and receiver; (2) more media attention than other identified moderators on the extent of search as pertaining to a clothing annual gift occasions; (3) more marketing effort than other ...