negative trade-off between risk and incentives
Subtitle: evidence from the American whaling industry
By: Eric Hilt.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 11960.; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 11960.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Whaling -- Economic aspects -- United States; Sailors -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Sailors -- Economic aspects -- United States -- 19th century
Notes: "January 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-33).

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