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Francisco Lagos

- Verified email at ugr.es - Cited by 716

Francisco Lagos

- Verified email at umd.edu - Cited by 91

The hidden advantage of delegation: Pareto improvements in a gift exchange game

…, N Jiménez, JA Lacomba, F Lagos - American Economic …, 2012 - aeaweb.org
This paper analyzes the effect on performance and earnings of delegating the wage choice
to employees. Our results show that such delegation significantly increases effort levels. …

On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict

JA Lacomba, F Lagos, E Reuben… - Games and Economic …, 2014 - Elsevier
We introduce three extensions of the Hirshleifer–Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally
the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort …

Providing performance information in education: An experimental evaluation in Colombia

F Barrera-Osorio, K Gonzalez, F Lagos… - Journal of Public …, 2020 - Elsevier
We conducted a randomized controlled trial of an information intervention to evaluate the
effects of providing information to families on their children's reading and math achievement in …

The white dwarf binary pathways survey – VI. Two close post-common envelope binaries with TESS light curves

…, G Tovmassian, M Zorotovic, F Lagos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Establishing a large sample of post-common-envelope binaries (PCEBs) that consist of a
white dwarf plus an intermediate mass companion star of spectral type AFGK, offers the …

The White Dwarf Binary Pathways Survey–IV. Three close white dwarf binaries with G-type secondary stars

…, SG Parsons, BT Gänsicke, F Lagos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Constraints from surveys of post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) consisting of a white
dwarf plus an M-dwarf companion have led to significant progress in our understanding of the …

Population aging and legal retirement age

JA Lacomba, F Lagos - Journal of Population Economics, 2006 - Springer
This paper analyzes the effects of population aging on the preferred legal retirement age.
What is revealed is the crucial role that the indirect ‘macro’ effects resulting from a change in …

Social comparisons in wage delegation: Experimental evidence

…, R Cobo-Reyes, JA Lacomba, F Lagos… - Experimental …, 2016 - Springer
We make two main contributions in this article. We examine whether social comparisons
affects workers’ performance when a firm can choose workers’ wages or let them choose their …

Variation in the local segregation of Latino children—Role of place, poverty, and culture

…, M Bridges, Y Kim, C Galindo, F Lagos - American Journal of …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Purpose: Does the rising share of Latino students in US schools help to integrate previously
White campuses or exacerbate racial and economic segregation over time? This article …

Dysfunctional involvement of emotion and reward brain regions on social decision making in excess weight adolescents

…, JS Rio‐Valle, JA Lacomba, FM Lagos… - Human Brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Obese adolescents suffer negative social experiences, but no studies have examined
whether obesity is associated with dysfunction of the social brain or whether social brain …

The development of social preferences

…, B Grosskopf, JA Lacomba, F Lagos… - Journal of Economic …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines how social preferences develop with age. This is done using a range of
mini-dictator games from which we classify 665 subjects into a variety of behavioural types. …