Academic honors and performance

Labour Economics

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 188-204

  Chan, Ho Fai ^a   Frey, Bruno S ^b,c,d   Gallus, Jana ^c   Torgler, Benno ^a,d,e  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b ZEPPELIN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CREMA CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS   (Switzerland)

^e EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic medals; Awards; Incentives; Research; Synthetic control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912033375     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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