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We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...
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have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment …
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own retirement security, this lack of knowledge has serious implications …
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showed that financial literacy is low among the young; fewer than one-third of young adults possess basic knowledge of …
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knowledge acquired in school - before entering the labor market and certainly before starting to plan for retirement. Results … show that those with more advanced financial knowledge are those more likely to be retirement-ready …
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Increasingly, individuals are in charge of their own financial security and are confronted with ever more complex financial instruments. However, there is evidence that many individuals are not well-equipped to make sound saving decisions. This paper demonstrates widespread financial illiteracy...
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Many older US households have done little or no planning for retirement, and there is a substantial population that seems to undersave for retirement. Of particular concern is the relative position of older women, who are more vulnerable to old-age poverty due to their longer longevity. This...
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whether individuals have the financial knowledge and skills to navigate this new financial environment. To better understand … Survey. We have designed questions to measure numeracy and basic knowledge related to the working of inflation and interest … rates, as well as questions to measure more advanced financial knowledge related to financial market instruments (stocks …
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As the world becomes more financially integrated and complex, average individuals and their families are increasingly faced with making highly sophisticated and all-too-often irreversible financial decisions. Nowhere is this more evident than with regard to retirement decision-making. Indeed,...
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Recent research on financial market valuation of the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms is surveyed. The … motivation for using a market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is … value of the modern manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that patent measures contain …
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